Showing posts with label intercorstal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label intercorstal. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 3, 2019

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



Saturday, July 9, 2016

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.



Sunday, May 15, 2016

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.




Wednesday, September 17, 2014

Intercorstal for Offlife


I've been a fan of Off Life comic for a while now -- they release collections of short comics from mostly-UK based creators. The style of the comics the run with is absolutely nothing like what I make, but I thought I'd give it a punt anyway, and repurposed the layout from a Ditko Amazing Spider-man (which Andrei reliably informs me is Ditko's best page, which I genuinely didn't know beforehand).

To make it a slightly better fit, I put some diary-comic style words together -- details of that can be found on my personal blog about the whole thing: http://garethahopkins.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/submission-to-offlife-10.html

But here it is, in its raw form (other than bumping the layers and cropping, obviously).

Wednesday, May 7, 2014

Intercorstal 2, pages 21 and 22

Page 21

Page 22
Two more pages from 'The Intercorstal 2'. Page 21 is an original layout, Page 22 takes the layout and some compositional cues from a page in X-Force drawn by Mike Allred and written by Peter Milligan (if I can get some reference as comparison, I'll post it here)

Friday, April 25, 2014

Karmacoma for Secret7s


This year I entered 4 designs into the Secret7 competition. Three of them weren't comic style, but this one, for Massive Attack's Karmacoma, used the style of my comic The Intercorstal to illustrate an image of Sokushinbutsu, which is a form of self-mummification undertaken by a very particular sect of Japanese Buddhist monks. One of the articles I read about it can be found here: Sokushinbutsu

Of those four entries, one got through, and can be seen on the Secret7s website here: http://secret-7.com/gallery/sleeve/647 It's also of a mummy, this time a Peruvian one. I used an image from this blog as reference: Kojin (And our very own James 'Mayhem' Mahan has the original inks)

Friday, March 28, 2014

New Intercorstal pages

Work on my comic The Intercorstal has been slow of late (including four entries to Secret 7s, one of which got in, although I can't confirm which one did or did not get in -- although James Mahan should recognise it, hopefully). But in the last week or so I've been able to find time to finish off these -- two of which take an intentionally light touch. Also, the work I was doing on abstracting other artists' page layouts hasn't finished -- there are two more on the go at the moment -- but these three here are all my own work, as it were.

Page 17:

Page 18:

Page 19:

Thursday, December 12, 2013

Intercorstal 2 Page 12

This page didn't come easily, and I had to really drag at it to get it to work, until I noticed the female figure that's sitting across all six panels.

As with other recent Intercorstal pages, it was a riff/rip of a pre-existing comic page, in this case from one of the most iconic series of pages in comicbook history:


Tuesday, October 22, 2013

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.

Wednesday, October 16, 2013

The Intercorstal (New Statesmen)


Panel layout and some content bitten from one of Sean Phillip's pages from The New Statesmen. The contents of the larger first panel are very much inspired by Mr Soft (a character from the book that I've mentioned before) but I hadn't realised until I drew in his arms.

New Statesmen ran in the 2000AD offshoot 'Crisis' in the late 80s, a period which I'm very influenced by at the moment.

Tuesday, October 8, 2013

New Intercorstal - a conversation


Inspired by a page from The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen.

Thursday, August 30, 2012

The Intercorstal: Butcher's Park

Well, it was called 'Epic' and then 'Demos' and finally, now that it's finished I've settled on 'Butcher's Park'. This is a video I recorded of the finished comic -- it's all scanned and as soon as it's PDF-presentable I'll share that here too.