Movember Portraits

Yep, it's that time of year again, when your hubbies, boyfriends and male BFFs stop shaving their upper lips in an attempt to furiously grow a fuzzy, scraggly, perhaps even wispy facial appendage, in order to raise awareness of male cancers! However if, like me, you are locked in a beard-as-identity-crutch loophole, you can't simply shave it all off and start anew, and so have to look to other ways in which to help the cause!

To this end, throughout the month of Movember, I shall be drawing portraits over at the Gallery of Mo. For a donation, I will draw you (or your pet) with an added moustache. So you can participate in the mo' show without having the inconvenience of upsetting your partner when you lean in for a smooch.

New UK Street Press Comic

If you live in London or Bristol then look out for the premier issue of OFF LIFE comic this week!

It's a FREE comic paper distributed in galleries, bars, coffee shops, etc, in said cities (and hopefully expanding its distribution further afield in the future) and features new and exclusive work from some top, top UK talent (and, er, me! Look out for my two-page strip, Zen For Beginners within its bristling pages)

Did I mention that it's FREE?! Track it down!

Video Killed the Bionade Star

This week I made my 'acting' debut in a short film promoting Fifty-One, the night for artists and creatives in Manly, Sydney. It looks and sounds great because it was made by German film prodigy Alexander Klose with music from Northern Beaches locals Lime Cordiale.

The event is hosted by The Bubble Co and continues monthly at Pony Room in Manly.

Rock of Pages

'Mount Thrashmore' L-R James Hetfield, Dave Mustaine, Scott Ian, Kerry King

I'm currently illustrating Kerrang! Magazine's 'Encyclopaedia of Rock' - A bumper A-Z of the most important people, places and things in the history of Rock and Heavy Metal, running over 13 (count 'em) weeks! I think A-B and C-D are (or were!) already on news stands across the UK with more to follow, like, tomorrow! Why not collect them all and put them together in a binder like those collectable magazines that used to be sort of popular in the 90s...? I used to get one called Quest, it was great!

Manly Exhibition

No don't worry, I'm not about to strip to the waist and flex my puny muscles(!)... I have new work in a show in Manly, in Sydney, tomorrow night! It's a new monthly event called Fifty-One, organised by The Bubble Co to network creatives in Sydney's Northern Beaches area. I'll be showing my ongoing 'Big Country' series of drawings, along with some comix, and there will be a new zine published especially for the event featuring work by myself and the other contributing artists, Tom Davies, Jon Ford and Rhys Prosser (above).

Tumblring Dice

I've several more illustrations appearing in Kerrang! Magazine over the next couple of weeks, including: 'Which Type of Rock Star Are You?'; Axl Rose now and then; and a 'Rock Goes Mainstream' feature which involves (amongst other things) Take That re-imagined as UK Punks, and Celine Dion biting the head off a bat(!)

Also this month sees my music journalism debut, as my article celebrating 50 years of The Rolling Stones appears in AUSTAR Magazine across Australia (along with this artist's impression of how the Glimmer Twins first met!)

And finally, to keep up to date with everything visually, I gone and done a Tumblr - pipgreed.tumblr.com
- which hopefully will act as a sort of online sketch book slash image dumping ground. At least until I give this tired little ol' website a makeover in the near future..!

So, stay tuned!

Both of you!

Cereal, Killer

This week I have work appearing in two magazines in the UK...

Firstly, the recently relaunched Starburst Magazine will feature a full-colour comic strip by myself and the prolific plunderer PM Buchan. Not Now, Bernie! (above) is the touching tale of a boy, routinely ignored by his parents, who befriends a bloodthirsty alien intent on wiping out humanity...!

Secondly an illustration for heavy metal bible Kerrang! sees an imagining of a Metallica breakfast cereal! (and features Lars Ulrich as the Lucky Charms leprechaun!!)

Both Starburst and Kerrang! are available in all UK newsagents' worth their salt from Wednesday.

Bookstore - Lincoln, Nebraska

Couple of my comix in this excellent-sounding exhibition in the States, opening this week...!

BOOKSTORE
Drift Station, Nebraska, USA.
March 2 – April 25, 2012
Opening: Friday, March 2, 7:00-10:00pm

Hourly Comic Day 2012

It's that time of year again (or at least it was on 1st Feb), when comic creators the world over attempt to make a comic depicting their every waking hour that day...! Last year was an action-packed, fun-filled day which resulted in A G'Day In The Life. This year I was broke, unemployed, looking for a job and looking after a needy, greedy cat called Nero. It's a lot more subdued as a result, but it's HERE if you want to take a look.