So, it's spring and I thought it was time I did a bit of a refresh to this site. Tidy the pages up a bit, add a few new (and old) items and do a new piece of artwork for the header; you know, that sort of thing.

If you remember some of the old magazines I used to work for you'll now find pics of all the covers to Anime UK, Super Play and N64 Magazine (for the time I was on them) on their own pages rather than just lumped together. Either follow the links here or roll over the 'The Art Crypt' tab above.

Please let me know what you think, if the site works ok for you and if there's anything else you'd like to see on here.


Thanks!

There's a great article on Super Play magazine over at Nintendo Life so here's a bit more old SP artwork to celebrate.

Look! That's Lisa Nichols' (SNES fans hearts swoon) writing at the bottom telling the scanning guys what size to prep the artwork to. This was before we all had Photoshop on our desktops and had to do that sort of stuff for ourselves. The artwork was done on acetate - animation cel-stylee - and was scanned in on a big drum.

Some nice person is doing an article on one of my old video game magazines - Super Play - so I braved the dusty dimension of under the sofa and retrieved my old portfolio (you know, the one with real, physical, untouched by the hand of Photoshop, artwork) so I could scan in a few bits and bobs.

So here's Neko, the Super Play subscription tiger. Each issue he'd be put in a more perilous predicament, doomed to a hideous fate unless enough people subscribed to the magazine and saved him. Well, until the next issue, that is.

I'd forgotten quite how labour intensive some of the Neko illos were. They were done (as I also did the covers in those days - '92-'94) on acetate with the linework on the front and painted on the back; animation cel-style. Often they would be just as complicated as the covers and boy, did I get through a lot of paints back then.

Now I've opened the Pandora's Box that is the Old Portfolio (TM) expect to see more horrors from the past. Just don't ask me to post anything from the Scorpion Man comic from 1980.