Free PDFs of my current work

Some updates from me, for those that don't follow me on social media...

My current Abstract Comics project 'Too Dry To Rot' involves me drawing over pages, and then redrawing over them again, using my earliest Intercorstal pages as their starting point. Have just completed 'Phase 5', during which the project got twice as large due to a printing error, and has produced two comics.

The first, 'The Exploding Mess', was created with my daughter, my nephew, and my son, helping in different amounts on both art and story. You can download the PDF of it here, it's a lot of fun: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1lHY-cN1ZzsznW5ceu6n0bbIK6cGvrpxX

The second comic is as yet untitled, and is made up of pages that didn't fit in with 'The Exploding Mess'. I still have work to do on it by adding text, but since that's undecided and I have other comics to make, I've released this already: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1L9hE-aOTW1R3GNrhzcUMQRIErL4_Wi9q

Finally, last year I made an abstract autobio comic that dealt with my grief at having lost an old friend of mine whilst also acting as a love letter to my family. David Hine, of Bulletproof Coffin fame, called it 'profoundly, brilliantly original' which was nice. It came out via GOOD Comics, and can be bought at the link below, but specially (and secretly, so ssssh) for the Abstract Comics blog, here's the first chapter, in full: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1abXN_bVLHg9b2ALmwK82djPuvD5jjvvj

You can buy Petrichor here: https://www.goodcomics.co.uk/product-page/petrichor-by-gareth-a-hopkins

Found Forest Raw - free download

Last July the abstract graphic novel that I made with the poet Erik Blagsvedt came out -- it was called Found Forest Floor and was a 250 page mix of my art work and his poetry. (you can get a copy here, if you're interested: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1548861669/ref=cm_sw_su_dp)

As a companion to that book, and also as a standalone comic, I've put together 'Found Forest Raw' which is made up of the more traditional comics pages that I made at the start of the project but for the most part got abandoned. I really like most of them, so am sharing it as wide as I can.

You can download from the following link:  https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hbq79QXGi4uoWPvJEvcnIcP621SfF38U/view

Found Forest Floor

For Small Press Day 2016, I've collected some of the pages from the book I'm working on for Abstract Editions and called it 'Found Forest Floor'. I've printed off a few versions in various grades of quality and individuality to give out at the various London stores I'll be scooting between on the day, but there's a freely available PDF version for download here: LINK

Here's some of the pages included. Maybe of note is that where for the past few years I've been recreating pre-existing pages for the most part the pages in Found Forest Floor are all my own work, in that I've dictated the page layout and flows etc. Although having said that I've just noticed that the first two pages I've selected as previews here are reworkings, from 'Doc Dino' and 'The Complete Don Quixote' respectively, which is almost embarrassing.

The Intercorstal: 683 (Kickstarter launch)

A few months ago I posted a sequence of images from 'The Intercorstal: 683', an anthology comic, albeit with ever page completed by me. I've just launched a Kickstarter campaign to get it printed, which can be found here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/grthink/the-intercorstal-683

I'm incredibly proud of '683', and early reaction from proof readers and reviewers has been really positive. Here's a few of the preview pages, from sequences 1, 3 and 5 respectively.

Intercorstal 2 Page 7

Another new Intercorstal page, again taking the panel layout from a page in New Statesmen, although this time it's been inverted.

New Intercorstal - a conversation

Inspired by a page from The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen.