So new site, new blog, new stuff to look at. I’ve put up a couple of new comics you may not have seen before, most notably the I Went Away story that appeared in the Image Comics anthology This Is A Souvenir.  14 pages and in colour, too! Click the image below to read the comic or hey, click the comic banner above to read a bunch of others.

The I Went Away work’s a bit old now (2008!) but worth a read anyway. The anthology was based on songs by the band Spearmint and their songwriter Shirley Lee. Admittedly I’ve not heard much Spearmint but found I could work a comic out of the song in question. The story itself was a lot of recycled material from a project called Find The River which was going to be this long laborious Blankets-esque tale of a long distance relationship, which I abandoned as well, I kinda already did that once. I took the fact that I got a mere 14 pages out of the subject as a sign to never do anything like that again.

But anyway, have a poke around the site and add the RSS to your reader or what-not.  I’ve updated my illustration portfolio and added a new Chloe Noonan page with previews and fan arts.

Also! I’ve gone and rejigged my store via Big Cartel and to celebrate, I’m offering 20% off everything until Monday the 23rd of August at 12pm GMT. All you have to do is type RIPLRB into the discount code when you’re checking out. If you haven’t checked out the Chloe Noonan comics, now is the time to do so!

I have a comic in Boom! Studio’s CBGB comic that comes out now in all good comic shops! The 14 page story is written by Kieron Gillen and it’s in full colour and totally worth your monies. Sam Humphries and Rob G provide the other story.

The cover by Jaime Hernandez is as follows and for a 4 page preview click right here!

For ordering info, head to www.boom-studios.net/cbgb-01.html

Out now is the second issue of the British comic anthology Solipsistic Pop and I have a brand new six page Chloe Noonan comic strip in it along with a Polar Opposites strip in the newspaper supplement. You should see this book, guys, the photos don’t do the book justice. Hands down it’s the best print job my work has ever received and I know you guys are book lovers so the following is important, the smell is spot. on. It’s a wonderful showcase of some of what the UK has to offer and as I’m typing this I’m working on the lead story for the 3rd issue which should hit later this year.

Anyway, here’s the first page from the new Chloe story that appears in #2. Even the JPG can’t show the full awesomeness of the blue tone colour.

I love this anthology and I’m really pleased to be included in it. Honoured, even. It’s a very important book for the UK indie comic scene and all I can say is, if you were ever curious as to what’s out there but didn’t know where to start, well this is where you begin. There’s a wealth of talent in there such as Adam Cadwell, Stephen Collins, Lizz Lunney, and one of my favourite new comic artists who has pretty much come from blinking nowhere; Luke Pearson.

You can buy a copy here. And you should! Even if I wasn’t in it, I’d still buy a copy.