Negative Burn #10

About a week ago I was pleasantly surprised to have FedEx deliver a box of Negative Burn issue 10 to my door. I had known that one of the strips from my collection 'One Last Time' was having yet another appearance for a while but I didn't know when. So a nice surprise.

The story is a three page partially painted strip called 'Eight Months Ago' and its essentially a ghost story. What's really strange to me though is that I drew the story eleven years ago! That feels like a long, long time ago now and certainly a major difference to my circumstances and how I was back then. Its great to see it in print though and as usual I will encourage you to seek it out and buy it. Also as usual if you don't frequent comic shops then the best thing to do is to do a search on the internet for it. Or if you really struggle I can sell you one direct just e-mail for details and the like.

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Face of Boe

Man that is a cool toy, I've been very impressed with the quality of Doctor Who toys with this new series and I've been good so far and not bought too many but I want that. Somebody buy it for me, well alright I'll buy it myself then :)

It would be pretty cool if the manufacturers of these fine toys went back into the Doctor's previous lives and do some toys of say the Tom Baker period. Gotta have a Davros toy ain't you.

Regular readers (hi you two) will note that I have finally figured out how to post proper linking web links, only taken me about two years but hey I'm a fast learner. So check out the link for the toy, doesn't say much tho...

http://www.forbiddenplanet.co.uk/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=36970

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Massimo Belardinelli

I heard today of the sad passing of a favourite comic artist Massimo Belardinelli. Many other people can tell the history of this great artist better than I so I will leave it to the links below for you to discover all about him. His death had been supposedly forced onto him several years ago when it was reported that the hard to track down artist was dead but fans rejoiced upon hearing he was alive although in poor health. Sadly it seems its true this time as the news slowly filters in.

My first real taste of Massimo's work was on the legendary 'Ace Trucking Co', where the skipper of the 'Speedo Ghost' Ace Garp and the crew GBH and Feek the Freek where mind blowing to behold and their adventures hilariously written by John Wagner and Alan Grant. I loved the art of Ace Trucking as it bore no resemblance to anything else in 2000AD and it looked like it would take years to actually produce. A popular series for 2000AD today is 'Slaine' and the early adventures where drawn and brought to life by Massimo. Although years later Massimo's style would be frowned upon by many new 2000AD reader if it wasn't for his work and development on 'Slaine' they wouldn't be enjoying the series in the pages of the comic today.

My favoutite series though has to be 'The Dead', written by Peter Milligan. I couldn't believe what I was seeing when I first saw this series. The panel I have posted was so wonderful I had to try and draw it myself, one of many I attempted and failed miserably at. The character of the series Fludd was killed in order to save the world he came from where everyone was immortal but where being infected by demons (as usually happens). Fludd had survived an attack by a demon and was sent to the 'Deadworld' to find out how to stop the demons at the source. It was excellent and I loved it. The April edition of 2000AD's 'Extreme' magazine actually features the entire series of 'The Dead' so if your very lucky you can go to WHSmiths and still find it, I would if I was you. I'm lucky enough to own a few pages from the series and I'll be looking them out and admiring the work that Massimo put into them.

Safe journey Massimo, thanks for all the great art!

http://www.downthetubes.net/features/tributes/massimo_belardinelli_tribute.html
http://bearalley.blogspot.com/2007/04/comic-clippings-14-april-2007.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massimo_Belardinelli

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Baby Boy!

Our second Son was born Tuesday 3rd April at 6.53pm, 4 days after the due date. Long labor but everyone well after the event but extremely tired. Alexander Henry Reid is his name although we will be calling him Alex. 8 pounds and 1 oz on birth and 52cm in length (sounds big don't it but really he's tiny), its all practically the same as his older brother on his birth. Allowed home the day after so we are all settling into a new routine.

All the best!

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