New for Nitro

I've got a couple of new strips in the latest issue of Nitro! Firsty pops:

The spread this issue is the begging of a rolling story in which some school kids get launched in to space thanks to an overly ambitious lord mayor's space program.

I started this one ages ago and I'm quite a few issues in drawing wise. It's loads of fun to do with loads of opportunity for silliness.

The mini strip this issue is also a new one of a series. In this strip a couple of holidaying aliens crash land on Earth. Will they have a pleasant vacation experience or will they just get pooed on by a cow? Find out only in the latest issue of Nitro! Or just guess, I'm sure you can if you really try.

Mission Ian Possible and pirate based fun

Two of my comics in Nitro this week. Firstly Cap'n has gotten himself lost in some fog:

The longer story this week is a spoof of Mission Impossible. Feature's a marginally better pun than my 'Puss in Bots' offering. Marginally.

It's part coloured by my talented bro David Plant as well.

Here's the opening:

More great comics by Toby P and others as well. Go get yourself a copy of Nitro if you know what's good for you.

Tripple whammy of my comicy bits in the latest Nitro

First up there's everyone's favorite landlocked Pirates in a christmas-based-mini-yarn. What's Cap'n doing to the Ship you may ask? Well get yourself off to your nearest news agent and demand your copy of Nitro to find out.

It's been really great working on the Pirates strip and I've been really pleased with the response. I originally devised them as a one off spoof to tie in with the Pirates of the Caribbean films, but they proved popular so here I am a year later still pooing them out. That's a point: the crew debuted exactly a year ago now, so happy birthday ye old scallywags!

The brief for the second comic was to do a spoof of the Puss in Boots film that's out now. Unfortunately, since I had to draw it quite a long time before publication I had no idea what the film was about. So instead of doing a spoof per se I based the comic around probably the worst pun ever to make it in to print. I got plenty of slapstick in to this one though.

And finally... this episode of Bert Grills was drawn many moons ago but it got lost in the wilderness and has only just found it's way back to civilization. Notable for the most gratuitous builders bum that I've ever drawn (in a kid's comic at least). See if you can spot it. I might hide one in each of my comics from now on, kind of like a Where's Wally. Or not

Correction 21.12.2011

The Bert Grills comic was actually in the previous issue. Woops, sorry!

King Arthur's Christmas and everyone's favoritest pirates crew in the latest Nitro

This week's Nitro's got another double bill of my comic sillyness. The first of three film 'spoofs' that I've been working on is the biggy in this issue. It's very loosely

a parody of the new Aardman film Arthur Christmas, although it goes slightly (completely) off on a tangent. Here's a wee preview:

The second comic is a mini, peddalo-based adventure for the Pirates of the A37. There's also comicy goodness from the one and only Toby P.

Pirates double bill

This week in Nitro: two of my Pirate-based strips. In the above yarn the crew get stuck in a traffic jam (sea monsters on the bridge) and mutiny is in the air!

Two Comics in the latest Nitro

Readers of Nitro will be subjected to two of my cartoon offerings this week. Cap'n makes a solo appearance in a mini strip and the two hippos have a tantrum in Concrete Jungle. So there.

Nitro no 99

Nitro number 99 is out now, featuring two of my strips, one of which is the latest installment of Pirates. This episode introduces a new nemesis for the crew in the shape of Admiral Brassheart and his scurvy speed camera.

Also in the issue are comics drawn by a certain Toby P and written by Cavan Scott. Comicy goodness all round

Geekfest 2011 and Pirates of the A37 return

I embraced my inner (and outer) nerd today and hada little poke around this year's Bristol Comic Expo. It was great to see what's going on in the comic world and soak up the unique vibe that can only be produced by cramming hundreds of sweaty adolescents in the windowless corridors of a hotel.

Also in comic related news: Pirates of the A37 is back in Nitro by popular demand (or at least by my demand, which counts I think). I only intended to do the one episode originally, but I kept on having new ideas for it. If you wanna read the rest of it get yourself a copy of Nitro from your news-agent or here

Bert's birthday treat

Bert Grills completely fails to give his son a birthday party in this week's Nitro. Will Ben finally get his own back? Has Alan actually been eaten by wolves? Do rhetorical questions really make text more engaging? Find out the answers to most of these questions within the pages of Nitro #93.

New Bert Grills and Son

Next Friday is new Nitro day. The Bert Grills and Son saga continues on a coracle theme...

Nitro comic strips out on friday

The next issue of Nitro is out on Friday, featuring a brand new outing for Bert.

Next up in Nitro

In the next issue of Nitro there'll be a brand new Bert Grills comic featuring everyone's favorite overgrown Boy Scout Ray Mears.

It'll also have a special one off comic story which I won't write too much about just yet. But, as you may be able to tell from the picture, it has pirates in it! Yays!