Have you been out today?

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Seawhite of Brighton A6 sketchbook number 12, begun April 23rd, 1998






Hmm, that's a bit dull. Have another two...







Bigness of picture may be achieved in the usual fashion, if desired.

Seawhite of Brighton A6 sketchbook number 12, begun April 23rd, 1998







Bigness of picture may be achieved in the usual fashion, if desired.

Count down the days until The Main Squeeze and two other irritatingly talented illustrators exhibit gorgeous things in our home here.

More details closer to the time.

At the risk of ruining it all for you, here's a peek at a page of workings out and doodles, including the full rough layouts of episode 12 of Good Dog, Bad Dog: Double Identity, which is currently being serialised in The Phoenix.

Seawhite of Brighton A6 sketchbook number 12, begun April 23rd, 1998






Some notes on that right hand page towards the comic strip I was creating as my major project on the Brighton MA course, Celebrity Deaths. It was a kind of comedy noir thing in which I had various unpleasant TV celebrities bumped off in vaguely ironic fashion. Probably would have worked better as a five page Judge Dredd strip in the 2000AD of my youth, to be honest. I think it ended up running to about 50 pages with great chunks of clunky exposition crashing into view at regular intervals. All in all, it wasn't very good. I hope I've learned a little since then.

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The very lovely, talented and tall Mr Philip Reeve has written a rather splendid review of A Boy and a Bear in a Boat.

Among other things he calls it "powerfully depressing" (in a good way). I shall be encouraging my publisher to quote that on the jacket of the paperback in due course.

More scraps from the margins...
















In other news: we now seem to have a dog. How did that happen?

Seawhite of Brighton A6 sketchbook number 12, begun April 23rd, 1998






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Seawhite of Brighton A6 sketchbook number 12, begun April 23rd, 1998

Double size post this week for no especial reason.







Ah, 61 Rugby Rd, Brighton, one of several addresses where I used to spend occasional nights sleeping on the sofa during the MA course. I forget now who lived where but I think Rugby Rd was the hotbed of talent where Mike Chester resided with various other talented folk (possibly including Mique Moriuchi?).











Some workings out for a little silent mini book I did called Signs of Life which turned out rather more of an interesting and instructive diversion than a good piece of work in its own right.


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