Emerging from my Hovel

Sally & Katia of Make Do & Mend Arts, two of the finest jewellery makers and friendliest/most-awesome hosts for a craft fair I've ever had the pleasure to meet are BACK, with the third in what I'm sure will be a slew of excellent bazaars hosting the exciting and eclectic work of the region's most talented makers (and me).

As a seller at the two previous events, I can give you my personal guarantee that you will not regret either setting up your own table of wares OR blowing all of your hard earned cash as a punter. Also, TUNNOCKS TEACAKES! For FREE!

Travelling Into The Future

Travelling Man, the comic shop where I work part-time, is celebrating its 20th birthday very shortly and I designed this illustration to go on posters and flyers for all the cool stuff we'll be doing for the occasion:

This baby scored me some sweet in-store credit which I put towards a copy of Mansions of Madness, a new board game that is part Arkham Horror, part Cluedo, part classic narrative-driven RPG and all parts awesome. The gaming system, set-up and miniatures are all sweet and I know you came here to look at pictures, but check out this video and then go and buy your copy. If nothing else then for the facial hair on Corey Konieczka.

Who needs a weekend in the sun when you could be trying to stop Cultists from summoning a Chthonian in the Chapel, or fighting back zombies in an attempt to find your long lost, possibly dead relative? Nobody, that's who!

O The Horror!

Phillip Buchan, an entirely morally reprehensible filth spewer of the lowest order who has been a friend and close associate of mine for some years now, is putting together an incredible anthology of horror comics, the majority of which he has either written or had some large hand in.

As well as blood-drenched, dragged-up, Lucky-Strike-smoking, mutant orgy punk bands like Zombina & The Skeletones and Harley Poe, he's also roped old wooly-vest-wearing Fallows into the project, dragging me out of the self-loathing introspective emo vogue I currently call my comfort zone and forcing me to make comics like a real man.

Below is the first page of our collaborative effort, the other three you'll have to read when the thing comes out (more on that later):

Drawing Request Number One

A couple of posts ago I asked the good people of the internet to post their ideas for something they'd like me to draw for the Crumpet Time Comics Personal Commission post that I've now created on my Etsy store. This was a suggestion [female superhero drinking a cup of tea] made by my good buddy and all round mega talent Paul Thompson, and features Sugar Glider, the heroine of Daniel Clifford and Gary Bainbridge's new and exciting title.

More drawings to follow!

Ghost Citing

Matthew Murray of the awesome blog 365 Zines a Year just wrote up a cool review of my comic The Gentleman Ghost. Check out the unfathomably huge backlog of reviews he's posted up there and wonder why you're not so productive yourself, mister!

A Cracking Start to 2011

Hello All,

I was very pleased not only to have a lovely feature provided by comics-criticism connoisseur of the North East, Christian Kerr, in the January issue of The Crack magazine, but also to have the lovely robot illustration I created based on these lovely robots put slap bang on the cover!

But it gets better folks! The editor asked my permission after they were unable to use a picture of Muhammed Ali! Which means their next thought after legendary-boxer-hero-to-millions was ME! Ahem...well maybe. Anyway, feast your eyes:



The Crack is a free magazine that is chock full of reviews and listings for all sorts of lovely local gigs, theatre performances, galleries, good places to eat, stuff that's happening and everything in-between. You can pick it up from almost every decent pub and clothes/record/comic shop in Newcastle so please do seek it out!

Any First Requests?

Since it was so popular at Thought Bubble, I've decided I will now be taking requests for small commissions online over at my Etsy Shop. Unfortunately, I didn't have the foresight to snap pictures of any of the drawings I did at the event and the listing is going to look very bare unless I have some examples up there. So I'm asking YOU, the dear blog reader, to post some insane (but unoffensive) ideas for things I can draw and scan to spice things up a bit.

I'll happily e-mail you a hi-res scan of your doodle to print out, or if you wanna PayPal me £2/$3 I'll mail out the hard copy to you as well! I will be doing two or three black and white ink drawings and one colour drawing for the listing so get in there fast with requests amigos!

If you've got an idea just comment on this blog post or e-mail me at: jack@jackfallows.com

Merci!