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8/25/08 10:37 am



High drama! Behind the cut and possibly not terribly safe for work...

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8/17/08 11:06 pm

My entire computing life has been spent on a PC.

Last Thursday morning at his regular 7:30 wake up call and after 3 grease and oil changes in 18 months, my lumbering dinosaur, sweet Peter Crumpleton, died his final death. By midday that same day he'd been replaced, the bed still warm and my heart lost to him forever by the sheer glorious 24 inch high definition beauty of this...



I feel no shame or regret. Does this make me a monster?

8/16/08 08:42 am

The incredible gay adventures of Dermott continue with the series #2 return this week. Will nothing stop him in his never ceasing quest to avenge, conquer and spread the good oil on sexual health?



I also put together a cover for the series #2 return, remember Dermott's sage words at your peril. MCV magazine should be out this week.

5/1/08 06:05 pm



After a marathon 28 full colour comic pages in 2 and a half weeks, and 56 all up in a month and a half of comicking madness, Zinc Alloy #1 and #2 are done! A celebratory panel from Book #2 above, Book #3 starts up end of May.

In other exciting news from my current hermit like internet existence, as of this post i'm moving to blogger with it's professional easy to customize interface! (insert drama sting!)

So from now on all dispatches from The House Of Skullduggery will emanate from here - http://thehouseofskullduggery.blogspot.com/
Update your bookmarks, RSS feeds, XML, CSS or chicken entrails accordingly. I'll be keeping the LJ alive for friends list voyeurism regardless, but here is the LJ syndication feed for the new blog -http://syndicated.livejournal.com/houseofskull/profile

Hope to see you over there! "Thankyou Denver! City by the bay!!"

2/25/08 05:29 pm


Hooray! Comics!
Pencils for the first 8 pages of Zinc Alloy.
Off to Sydney tomorrow for a wedding. Silly Goofball Poems will resume on my return!



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2/22/08 05:53 pm

Part #5 - The Hyena

2/21/08 08:24 pm

Part #4 - The Hippo

2/20/08 11:09 am

Part #3 - The Rhino...

2/19/08 09:17 am

Part #2 - The Elk

2/18/08 11:06 am

In an effort to haul myself out of a motivational slump...i thought i'd re-attempt the previously aborted 'Silly Goofball Poems' project as DAILY one hour warm up sketches. So here we go.
Part #1 is of course...The Moose.

2/11/08 07:07 pm

A community service announcement AND a t-shirt in one!

1/30/08 09:34 pm



Prydonian Academy were an incredibly successful late eighties metal band. Much to the chagrin of their millions of fans they split after lead singer Blasto Hatecandle joined a Buddhist self awareness camp and got a haircut. 'Out Of An Intention' is their first studio album in almost 18 years and the much anticipated return of the pure metal four peice.
Reviewers worldwide hailed it as "very middle of the road" and "the most radio accessible pap not even your mother would rock too. 'Out Of An Intention' won 15 grammies.
Fans in their thousands burnt copies of it en masse in the days proceeding it's release.

Auto Generated Album Cover meme -
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
The first article title on the page is the name of your band.

2. http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3
The last four words of the very last quote is the title of your album.

3. http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days/
The third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover.

pirated from the acoustic folk jamming of [info]calwong

1/21/08 12:16 pm

Cover to Zinc Alloy #2 (Stonearch Books)


1/4/08 11:03 pm

Final cover to Zinc Alloy book #1 and some rejected cover concept sketches.
Hope everyone had a great Christmas and new year.
Thanks to everyone for all the support, feedback and those who took the time to comment throughout 2007,
hopefully 2008 is an even bigger and better year! Possible? Maybe.



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12/23/07 09:52 pm



Have you been to the Trevi Fountain? Philistines would suggest it's a kitsch Baroque eyesore of little value to all but the coin throwing bus driven tourist set.
I say BALLS to that!

12/20/07 04:48 pm


Hope you have a Merry Christmas LJ chums, lord knows Jacob Marley isn't.

12/4/07 05:09 pm



I've put up a bunch of t-shirts all of which are now available at Red Bubble. Conveniently just in time for Christmas...or inconveniently if you don't order before the 8th. And if you're hesitant...just think how cool your mum would look in a flaming skull t-shirt!!

12/1/07 08:25 am

Arrived back in Melbourne a couple of days ago. Currently navigating probably the worst case of jetlag EVER. But on the other hand i've just had the best 5 weeks EVER. It's a fair trade.
A trip that couldn't have gone any better.
Far too many highlights to mention...from all of Barcelona, tapas and cheap beer, small Spaniards encouraging tourists to use their third eye and The Alhambra, to all of Paris, pastry, art, train strikes and French comics (Which probably deserves a post of it's own), snow, Italian coffee, Florentine countryside, the Medici's balls, and more Roman ruins than history can contain!

I took approximately 2674 photos. Here are a couple (read...quite a few) of my favourites.
Back to the grindstone Monday. It's summer. It's also less than 4 weeks to christmas. Whats THAT all about?!
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10/22/07 01:08 pm

In 24 hours time i'm going to be on a plane going to Europe for 5 weeks with a pretty girl.
Thinking on it travelling with a pretty girl is the ONLY way to go to Europe.
I'll be keeping a travel blog as daily as possible, posting sketches, photos and bits and pieces at the appropriately named...



Bookmark and visit at your leisure!

10/19/07 02:21 pm


Final colours for the cover to '10 Rules For Detectives'. The files/maps version will be slightly rejigged and used as the back cover (kudos to those who picked it, you're now qualified to get a job as an art director!!).



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