Timothy Alfred Cox: 21st November 1928 – 9th September 1993

This was a Christmas present for my grandmother: a picture of my grandfather in his youth, based on a picture that makes a man I remember as the quiet one of my two grandfathers look like a badass rockabilly hero.

Tiny Comics

SO.
Myself and the Tiny Dancing crew (yes, I said “crew”) are off to Thought Bubble next weekend. How exciting. We’ve been meaning to go for the last couple of years, but finally we’ve got our act together. WHOO.

One of the big things I had to finish was part two of the Ricky Miller written Hilary Harper and The Revenge of the Dinosaurs, which includes – amongst other things – my first ever double page spread. Whoo.  Here are some samples, with details of how to buy coming shortly….

How exciting

So, Doctor Who. Quite good, no?  Quite good, yes. I have done some illustrations for the latest issue of fab fanzine Panic Moon. You can buy it here:

http://panicmoonfanzine.blogspot.com/

Contents include:

Reviews of each episode from the second half of series six, plus Torchwood: Miracle Day, the latest from Big Finish and recent Doctor Who fanzines. New perspectives on the stories Colony in Space and The Sun Makers. Articles exploring the Pathfinders legacy for Doctor Who; the Hartnell factor; evolution in Doctor Who; the Day of the Daleks ‘Special Edition’; and what that Dalek was doing in the Thames. Plus a lively letters page and some beautiful artwork.

The zine is A6 format, 32 pages, monochrome and fully illustrated and costs £1.20. GET ON IT.

 

(I done this:)

Some things.

It has been AGES since I updated this thing. SO. Some stuff I have been up to:

• I started blogging all about my days as a failed indie pop star: the true story of what it’s like to front an indie band on the slide, touring the country playing to disinterested punters while your third single flops. You can read it here: http://586tourtales.wordpress.com
• I set up a Tumblr to keep track of all this stuff and post odd sketches and so on. It’s over at http://mrstevenhorrythesecond.tumblr.com
• Contributed one new and a couple of old illustrations to the the next issue of top Doctor Who fanzine Panic Moon. It’s due out in a couple of weeks and you can find out more at http://panicmoonfanzine.blogspot.com/
• Etcetera

Here are some excerpts of things. There are a couple of other exciting things on the horizon, but I’ll tell you more about them later.

Women

I felt it was all getting a bit masculine over here, so drew some chicks*. Specifically my wife-in-training and my co-promoter, The Allie Bailey. Then I faffed about in Photoshop a bit and set up a Tumblr over here. Lots of other stuff in the pipeline, but I’m on holiday so it can wait for now.

*IRONIC USE.

Tiny Dancing #6

This week I completed work on my contribution to Tiny Dancing issue 6, a Hilary Harper strip scripted by Mr Ricky Miller. I had tremendous fun drawing this, and Rick has written at least one speech that I absolutely adore. It is available from http://www.tinydancing.blogspot.com/ or London’s Orbital Comics amongst other places, and is due in approx 2 weeks.

Here are some sample pages. Pages 3 and 6 specifically.

Ethics

I have spent this week in an artists retreat (my back bedroom) doodling my arse off. This has been jolly good fun. I have drawn many comic book pages – more of which soon – and drawn a portrait of Henry Sidgwick for Welsh silverpopsters Golau Glau as part of their latest project.

‘HENRY…’ is a sound installation by GOLAU GLAU. Below is a choppy-chirpy-cheap trailer to publicise the piece at Beacons festival. The festival takes place from 11th-14th August 2011 at Heslaker Farm near Skipton.

Golau Glau – Trailer for ‘HENRY (The Methods Of Ethics 2011)’ BEACONS festival from Golau Glau on Vimeo.

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Find out more about Golau Glau and the festival by clicking here.