tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12410121018603795052024-03-05T13:55:27.247+00:00Johnny FightersIllustrations and sketches by John Riordan, illustrator and author of Hitsville UK and Time Out's William Blake, Taxi Driver.Johnny Fightershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09120816768869681933noreply@blogger.comBlogger156125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1241012101860379505.post-57485736548884618042015-05-13T20:44:00.000+01:002015-05-13T20:44:44.878+01:00My Secret 7 sleeveI just got a lovely email from <a href="http://secret-7.com/">Secret 7" </a>saying that all 700 sleeves have now been sold (the ones that don't sell on the day go up on eBay) and this reminded me that I haven't posted my sleeve.<div>
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So here it is, in all it's bad-pun glory, my design for St Vincent's Digital Witness. See what I did there?</div>
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(Alternative title - Something is Amish!)</div>
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I also never got round to posting these pictures of my favourite sleeves from this year's exhibition.</div>
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Some of these I know the artists, some I'm still not sure about, but you can now check them all out, including artists and track details on the <a href="http://secret-7.com/">Secret 7" website.</a></div>
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How rude!<br />
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The wonderful Jonathan Edwards<br />
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Love this one!<br />
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Modern Toss?<br />
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The very distinct style of Isabel Greenberg<br />
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Johnny Fightershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09120816768869681933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1241012101860379505.post-7848959489577517522015-04-10T15:28:00.004+01:002015-04-10T15:28:52.995+01:00ShhhhhhhhI am delighted, nay properly chuffed, to have another record sleeve in this year's Secret 7" exhibition.<br />
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I had a good look at the sleeves on display at the private view last night and there's some terrific work there.<br />
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This year's Secret 7" is at Somerset House and is open to the public from 10 April to 3 May. Then all 700 sleeves go on sale on 4 May for £50 a pop, all proceeds to music therapy charity <a href="http://www.nordoff-robbins.org.uk/">Nordoff Robbins</a>. You'll only get to see whether your suspicions about artist and record are correct once the sleeve is in your hands.<br />
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All the details are over at <a href="http://secret-7.com/">http://secret-7.com</a> and you can see a gallery of all the designs at <a href="http://secret-7.com/2015/gallery.php">http://secret-7.com/2015/gallery.php</a><br />
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Obviously I can't show you my sleeve for this year (yet!) but here's my artwork for last year, which was Glam surrealist masterpiece, Virginia Plain by Roxy Music.<br />
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I'm taking part in a very interesting exhibition at <a href="http://www.anisegallery.co.uk/">The Anise Gallery</a> in Shad Thames from 6 February to 15 March.</div>
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It's called <b>Sequential City</b> and explores the expressive depiction of architecture in graphic novels and comics. </div>
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I'll be showing prints of my weird cityscapes from <b><a href="http://www.johnriordan.co.uk/projects-capital-city.html">Capital City</a></b> and some of the original artwork that went into making the final pages. This means ink drawings, acrylic prints and watercolour washes and <i>lots </i>of tracing paper.</div>
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The Anise Gallery have attracted a very impressive bunch of artists, people who really push the envelope of comics art - namely <a href="http://owenpomery.blogspot.co.uk/">Owen D Pomery</a>, <a href="http://alisonsampsonart.tumblr.com/">Alison Sampson</a>, <a href="http://hannahberry.co.uk/">Hannah Berry</a>, <a href="http://www.timothybird.co.uk/">Tim Bird</a> and <a href="http://www.decadencecomics.com/">Lando</a>. I'm very pleased to be in their company.</div>
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I've drawn a comic about meditation for <a href="http://nomosjournal.org/">Nomos Journal</a>. It's the first in a new column I'm writing/drawing for them called <b>Drawing a Blank</b>.</div>
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Johnny Fightershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09120816768869681933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1241012101860379505.post-89595367307044577212014-11-13T19:14:00.001+00:002014-11-13T19:14:08.054+00:00THOUGHT BUBBLE 2014I'll be at <a href="http://thoughtbubblefestival.com/">Thought Bubble comics festival </a>this weekend in Leeds, Saturday 15th to Sunday 16th November .<br />
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Come and say hi if you're about!Johnny Fightershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09120816768869681933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1241012101860379505.post-36316244913825961372014-08-11T16:22:00.001+01:002014-08-11T16:30:18.166+01:00COMICA COMIKETI'm dead chuffed that Capital City features in the book of Comics Unmasked, the current exhibition at The British Library.<br />
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The exhibition finishes this weekend, and on Saturday 16 August I'll be taking part in the Comica Comiket, from 10.30 until 4.30 in the public foyer of the British Library itself.<br />
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It's a great chance to meet comics creators and buy comics and prints from the artists themselves. I'll be selling and signing Hitsville UK comics and prints as well as copies of Capital City.<br />
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Full details on the event here: <a href="http://www.comicafestival.com/index.php/comiket/">http://www.comicafestival.com/index.php/comiket/</a>Johnny Fightershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09120816768869681933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1241012101860379505.post-75252497877578077202014-05-28T11:38:00.002+01:002014-05-28T11:38:38.328+01:00It is happening… again<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Johnny Fightershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09120816768869681933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1241012101860379505.post-49669117627293430922014-05-17T13:34:00.000+01:002014-05-17T13:34:29.074+01:00CultureI've started a new comic strip, <a href="http://culturecomic.tumblr.com/">Culture</a>, once a week over on <a href="http://culturecomic.tumblr.com/">Tumblr</a>.<br />
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It's an excuse to make silly jokes about the Arts, as seen thought the eyes (I'm not sure they actually have eyes) of two monocellular organisms in a petri dish in a lab.<br />
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It's also something of an exercise in minimalism, as a contrast to the time-consuming baroque of Hitsville UK. It's a bit like that John Lennon quote (that I can't be bothered to find properly) about having an idea at the beginning of the week and recording and releasing the song by the end of the week. Wham, bam, get it out there while it's still relevant.<br />
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I talked about Culture to Richard Bruton over on the <a href="http://www.forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/2014/webcomics-weekly-culture-by-john-riordan/">Forbidden Planet International blog</a> and you can read Culture itself <a href="http://culturecomic.tumblr.com/">here</a>. This week it's on <a href="http://culturecomic.tumblr.com/">GODZILLA</a>!Johnny Fightershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09120816768869681933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1241012101860379505.post-32287593150734969282014-05-14T17:07:00.000+01:002014-05-14T17:07:13.379+01:00What's her name?...I can finally reveal my sleeve design for this year's <a href="http://secret-7.com/">Secret 7"</a> show. (In fact I could a few weeks ago but I've only just got round to writing this.)<br />
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My sleeve is a comic strip interpretation of Roxy Music's surrealist corker Virginia Plain.<br />
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My story draws inspiration from the song's strange lyrics (General E Lee, blue casino floors, pale horizons, a studebaker) and contains a big nod to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tFF2oB4n6M">the Big Train sketch in which Chairman Mao (played by the legendary Kevin Eldon) revives from his deathbed to give a spot-on imitation of Bryan Ferry on Top of the Tops. </a><br />
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I was delighted to be included in this year's <a href="http://secret-7.com/">Secret 7"</a> and even more delighted when I popped in on Record Store Day to see that my sleeve had been sold. You can see lots of the customers posing with their purchases<a href="https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.677276632331568.1073741834.241171102608792&type=1"> here</a>, including the chap who bought mine.<br />
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In the last few days Secret 7" have announced that they raised £41,500 this year for War Child!Johnny Fightershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09120816768869681933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1241012101860379505.post-27195922382863095572014-04-14T14:50:00.001+01:002014-04-14T16:06:28.956+01:00Cover me, I'm going in!<br />
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I drew about 60 illustrations for <b><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/How-Drink-Look-Like-Idiot/dp/190931322X">How to Drink and Not Look Like an Idiot,</a></b> written by drinks expert Emily Miles and published by <a href="http://www.rylandpeters.com/US/ourshop/dog-n-bone-books">Dog 'n' Bone books.</a><br />
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<br />Johnny Fightershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09120816768869681933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1241012101860379505.post-10336566299974581042014-04-02T13:34:00.000+01:002014-04-02T13:36:04.805+01:00Secret 7"<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I'm very excited to be part of this year's <a href="http://secret-7.com/">Secret 7"</a> exhibition, and I'd like to share my design with you.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">My love for visual art is equalled only by my love for its sonic cousin, music (see also my comic <i><a href="http://store.greatbeastcomics.com/product/hitsville-uk-1">Hitsville UK</a>) </i>and Secret 7" is an ingenious way of combining both and raising funds for charity.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The organisers have got 7 artists or bands to release new 7" versions of their songs, and invited artists (a mixture of famous bods and open submissions) to design the record covers. They then print 700 one-off covers (100 for each record) and sell each record for £45 on<a href="http://www.recordstoreday.co.uk/"> Record Store Day</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The twist is that the artwork on each cover doesn't explicitly tell you which record it is <i>or</i> who the artist is, so you only find out once you've bought the record.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">You can browse all the designs on the <a href="http://secret-7.com/gallery/">Secret 7" website</a>, and peruse them all in person on April 12th and 13th Downstairs at Mother, <span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 20px;">10 Redchurch St, London, E2 7DD.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">See anything you like? Recognise anyone's style? Mine's up there but I can't tell you which!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">You can part with your hard-earned cash on <a href="http://www.recordstoreday.co.uk/">Record Store Day</a>, April 19th and it all goes to the brilliant charity <a href="http://www.warchild.org.uk/">Warchild</a>.</span>Johnny Fightershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09120816768869681933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1241012101860379505.post-84209154198052878012014-03-20T13:00:00.000+00:002014-03-20T13:00:08.180+00:00Gosh!, a new Hitsville printThanks to everyone who came to the <a href="http://www.greatbeastcomics.com/">Great Beast</a> spring party at <a href="http://www.goshlondon.com/">Gosh! Comics</a> last Friday.<br />
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Gosh are absolute heroes in supporting new, indy comics in the UK and it was great to hang with the other Beasts and see friends new and old.<br />
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Special mention must go to Rich of Comics Printing UK who took it upon himself to donate more beer after the thirsty hordes had drunk Gosh dry in record time.<br />
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I produced this new Hitsville UK print for the party. It shows Ruthie of Carrie Nation's Revenge and Horace from the Dreadnoughts getting on down with Gwillum, who has been possessed by THE SONG.<br />
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It's A3 (297 x 420 mm) on archival matt paper, and is now available from the <a href="http://greatbeastcomics.bigcartel.com/">Great Beast shop</a> for £15 plus p&p.<br />
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<br />Johnny Fightershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09120816768869681933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1241012101860379505.post-2058811645385019712014-02-20T21:38:00.001+00:002014-02-20T21:38:15.233+00:00Funky Blue Tee!I decided to submit my depressed funkster to Threadless.<br />
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If you fancy wearing this on a t shirt then get over <a href="https://www.threadless.com/designs/funk-6">there</a> and vote!<br />
https://www.threadless.com/designs/funk-6<br />
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<br />Johnny Fightershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09120816768869681933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1241012101860379505.post-26623927582848132592014-01-19T13:48:00.000+00:002014-01-19T13:48:20.689+00:00JANUARY FUNK!I've been struggling with the January (post-birthday) blues, so I decided that rather than (just) sit around sighing in my dressing gown I would channel it into something positive. This is what I came up with.<br />
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<br />Johnny Fightershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09120816768869681933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1241012101860379505.post-46585324944158849982014-01-13T16:07:00.000+00:002014-01-13T17:32:03.534+00:00Strike! exhibition<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I have a couple of pieces in an exhibition of illustration from the radical political mag <a href="http://www.strikemag.org/">Strike!</a> Here's a crap picture of one of my pieces (on the right of the photo) sharing a wall with Ralph Steadman (on the left). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The exhibition has been put on to celebrate Strike!'s first year of publication, and there's some really good stuff in it, from well known artists such as Steadman and Stanley Donwood, and lesser known talents. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">One of the things that I like most about<a href="http://www.strikemag.org/"> Strike!</a>, and which sets it apart from other grassroots political publications, is that it's beautifully designed, with top notch illustration.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">You can check it all out until 8th Feb 2014 at the amazingly named <a href="http://www.flaxonptootch.com/">Flaxon Ptooch</a>. As walk as a gallery, it's</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> a hairdressing salon, so you may have to work around some 'do's being done, or you could get a cool chop yourself!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">My illustration in the picture above is from David Graeber's article 'Bullshit Jobs', originally published in the Summer 2013 issue of Strike! and then online, where it became a bit of a viral phenomenon. <a href="http://www.strikemag.org/bullshit-jobs/">http://www.strikemag.org/bullshit-jobs/</a></span><br />
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Johnny Fightershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09120816768869681933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1241012101860379505.post-27190734473202855962014-01-06T15:11:00.001+00:002014-01-06T22:09:24.024+00:00Doctor SaxFirst finished picture of 2014, this is based on a passage from Jack Kerouac's weird childhood memoir<i> Doctor Sax.</i><br />
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Hope that Christmas brings you lots of wonderful surprises…Johnny Fightershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09120816768869681933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1241012101860379505.post-46067250638415616742013-12-09T16:28:00.000+00:002013-12-09T16:32:19.880+00:00MaddaddamHere's an illustration from a few months ago. This was to accompany a review in <i>Nature</i> of Margaret Atwood's latest novel <i>Maddaddam</i><i>.</i><br />
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The piece went through a few changes as the art director, Barbara Izdebska, checked details against the review copy of the novel in the <i>Nature</i> offices.<br />
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I wasn't totally in the dark as <i>Maddaddam</i> is the third book in a trilogy and I had read the first novel in the series <i>Oryx and Crake</i> a few years ago and was able to speed-read the second book After the Flood while I was doing roughs for the illustration.<br />
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I was pretty happy with how it turned out in the end and Barbara very kindly sent me on the review copy so that I could finish the trilogy!<br />
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The trilogy is a captivating and terrifying depiction of a world after a pandemic has wiped out most of humanity. A handful of human survivors manage to cling on to a perilous existence, along with the Crakers, a tribe of bio-engineered humanoids bred to populate this brave new world (on the left in my illustration). Both groups must contend with the pigoons, ferocious and intelligent creatures who are the descendants of genetically modified pigs bred as human organ farms.<br />
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The whole trilogy is great but <i>Oryx and Crake</i> remains my favourite. Start there and see how you get on.Johnny Fightershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09120816768869681933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1241012101860379505.post-53478846140961814162013-12-01T18:33:00.000+00:002013-12-01T18:34:02.355+00:00The difficult second issue<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Well, it took the Stone Roses and Elastica five years each, right? So, we're not doing <i>soooooo</i> badly.<br />
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Yes folks, <b>Hitsville UK issue 2</b> is finally with us.<br />
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It's colourful, it's psychedelic, it's funny, it's sad, it's strange, it's even better than issue 1, it's 36 pages long and it's yours for just £3.50 in print or 69p(!) digital from <a href="http://store.greatbeastcomics.com/">Great Beast comics.</a><br />
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In issue 2, spiv-hop pioneer Jack Spatz competes in the local rap battle, Gerry comes to blows with his eccentric genius producer Greg Pastis, and The Dreadnoughts and Carrie Nation's Revenge face down neo-nazi agitators Aryan 51. Meanwhile, Greg sends Gwillum on a dangerous mystical mission to find THE SONG.<br />
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Forbidden Planet International's Richard Bruton described Hitsville UK 1 as "a bloody great accumulation of inspired madness, musical insanity and general chaos... a pure, unadulterated hit of a comic".<br />
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Andy Oliver of Broken Frontier said it was "a riotous, frenzied whirlwind of a comic book. I'll be pre-booking my tickets for the next gig!"<br />
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And cult comics writer David Hine wrote simply "Hitsville is a hoot!"<br />
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You can order issues 1 & 2 from the <a href="http://store.greatbeastcomics.com/">Great Beast store.</a><br />
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While you're there, check out other ace new comics from (deep breath) Robert Ball, Dan Berry, Warwick Johnson-Cadwell, John Cei Douglas, Isabel Greenberg and GB's founders Adam Cadwell & Marc Ellerby.<br />
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<br />Johnny Fightershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09120816768869681933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1241012101860379505.post-49301794866344030382013-10-14T15:16:00.000+01:002013-10-14T15:17:59.746+01:00AOI Illustration AwardsI'm currently living in a small igloo made of half-drawn comics pages, but I thought I would crawl out from under the Bristol board for a few minutes to write about the AOI Illustration Awards.<br />
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I won the New Talent (student and recent graduates) prize for the Editorial section with two pieces from my MA project <i><a href="http://johnnyfighters.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/aoi-awards.html">Capital City</a></i>. Here's an excellently composed picture by Sally Kent to prove it.<br />
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Tuesday night was the awards night so Sally and I went along to Somerset House to hobnob with other illustration types and I picked up my certificate from John O'Reilly, editor of <a href="http://www.varoom-mag.com/">Varoom magazine</a>.<br />
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We had a great time and met some lovely people, including <a href="http://heymonkeyriot.co.uk/">Edd Baldry</a>, who won the Professional prize in the same section as me, <a href="http://www.annacattermole.com/">Anna Cattermole</a>, who won the Professional prize in the Self-Initiated section for her beautifully observed drawings of boat building, and judge, cartoonist, illustrator, author and new dad <a href="http://www.stephencollinsillustration.com/">Stephen Collins</a>.<br />
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It was all a bit of an enjoyable blur and as ever with private views I was too busy talking to people to properly take in all the art. My two pictures are in the first room, sharing wall space with Anna's afore-mentioned boat pictures and some striking digital collages illustrating The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat by the sartorially impressive <a href="http://www.natekitch.com/">Nate Kitch </a>(he's the one who loos like Jarvis impersonating Elvis Costello in the picture below). I only got a chance to have a quick whiz round beyond our room, but I saw enough to tell that it's a well put together exhibition in a beautiful space, and (as you'd hope) there's a fascinating variety of approaches to contemporary illustration on display.<br />
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We're going back to have another look at the weekend and I'm really looking forward to it. Below is a picture of all the winners taken by <a href="http://www.insearchoflight.co.uk/">Sara Thomas</a>. As ever, I appear to be arseing about!<br />
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More info on the AOI Awards to be found <a href="http://www.theaoi.com/blog/?p=4833">here</a> and <a href="http://www.aoiimages.com/">here</a>.<br />
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Right, I'm off to draw comics again. The long awaited Hitsville UK 2 is on its way!<br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's a thought provoking piece and, as someone who has more than once suspected that their current mode of employment was ultimately (whisper it) a bit pointless, it really struck a chord with me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's much better and more persuasively written than I can manage but allow me to quote one of my favourite passages: "<span style="background-color: white; color: #373737; line-height: 24px;">A world without teachers or dock-workers would soon be in trouble, and even one without science fiction writers or ska musicians would clearly be a lesser place. It’s not entirely clear how humanity would suffer were all private equity CEOs, lobbyists, PR researchers, actuaries, telemarketers, bailiffs or legal consultants to similarly vanish. (Many suspect it might markedly improve.)"</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">David's impressive looking tome <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debt:_The_First_5000_Years">Debt: The First 5000 Years</a> </i>is on my bookshelf </span>and is next on my reading list.Johnny Fightershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09120816768869681933noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1241012101860379505.post-20273295778195978382013-08-02T15:18:00.000+01:002013-08-02T15:20:12.168+01:00Hitsville UK from Great Beast comicsThis is a belated post to announce that <b>Hitsville UK</b> has been relaunched by <a href="http://www.greatbeastcomics.com/">Great Beast Comics</a>.<br />
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Appropriately we launched in the very musical surrounding of Manchester at the MCM Comic Con on 20 July, and you can now buy issue 1 as well as some classy <b>Hitsville UK</b> pop art prints from the <a href="http://greatbeastcomics.bigcartel.com/">Great Beast online shop.</a> I'm really excited that for the first time you can buy an instantly download-able digital version of our comic.<br />
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You can also pick up <b>Hitsville UK</b> issue 1 from <a href="http://www.goshlondon.com/">Gosh! Comics</a>, <a href="http://www.orbitalcomics.com/">Orbital Comics</a>, Foyles books and <a href="http://www.sisterray.co.uk/">Sister Ray Records</a> in London, as well as <a href="http://www.okcomics.co.uk/">OK Comics</a> in Leeds and <a href="http://gnashcomics.co.uk/">Gnash Comics</a> in Devon, with more shops to follow.<br />
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(If you're a comic, record shop or indeed any shop who would like to stock Hitsville UK then please let me know.)<br />
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As some of you know we originally brought <b>Hitsville UK</b> out at the tail end of 2011, so it's taken us a bit of a while to get here. It's basically my fault for going off and doing an MA in Illustration after issue 1 and getting swamped by the workload. Dan and I are pleased as punch that we're getting to relaunch and continue the series with Great Beast. To those of you who have been stoically waiting for issue 2 to materialise (yes Alex, yes Camila) I <b>promise promise <i>promise</i></b> that issue 2 will arrive in November in time for Leeds' Thought Bubble festival.<br />
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Why are we so excited to be with <a href="http://www.greatbeastcomics.com/">Great Beast</a>?<br />
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Comics and graphic novels appear to be on the rise in blighty and beyond. Existing publishers and newer upstarts have released some great books at the artier, more literary end of the comics spectrum over the past few years. I think Great Beast could fill what has so far been a gap in the comics landscape (at least in the UK). GB's comics are intelligent, sophisticated, produced with great craft, but also crucially they are POP!<br />
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GB's founders, <b>Adam Cadwell</b> and <b>Marc Ellerby </b>have published their own comics under the imprint, notably Adam's vampire slacker comedy <b>Blood Blokes </b>and Marc's droll <b>Chloe Noonan: Monster Hunter</b>. They've also published collected editions of their autobiographical web comics The Everyday and Ellerbisms. I just finished Ellerbisms and am still reeling from the subtle but emotionally devastating storytelling contained therein!<br />
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Then there's <b>Robert Ball</b>'s stunningly beautiful <b>Winter's Knight</b>. Im a bit angry about Winter's Knight. The artwork is so flipping amazing I don't actually think it should be allowed. It makes the rest of us look <i>rubbish!</i> Robert is teaming up with the equally talented <b>Warwick Johnson-Cadwell</b> on <b>Dangeritis,</b> which you can see taking hilarious form over on its <a href="http://dangeritis.tumblr.com/">Tumblr</a> and which will be published in book form at Thought Bubble in November.<br />
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Just announced from Great Beast is I<b>sabel Greenberg</b>'s T<b>all Tales and Outrageous Adventures</b>, witty retellings of classic fairytales. Isabel won the Observer/Comica competition a few years ago and has a graphic novel coming out from Jonathan Cape soon. She also has a piece in the V&A's current exhibition <a href="http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/exhibitions/exhibition-sky-arts-ignition-memory-palace/about-the-exhibition/">Memory Palace</a>, which I wasn't sure whether I would like but is BRILLIANT! (Go see it).<br />
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And then there's us... continuing the tale of <b>Hitsville UK</b>, the indy record company with the weirdest, coolest, freaks in pop music; the best (though possibly only) musical-pop-art-soap-opera in comic form.<br />
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Now published by <a href="http://www.greatbeastcomics.com/">Great Beast</a>.<br />
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<br />Johnny Fightershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09120816768869681933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1241012101860379505.post-10206329880355062882013-06-27T13:51:00.003+01:002013-06-27T13:51:31.170+01:00The THE<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Did this piece last week for Times Higher Education mag. It illustrates an opinion piece by John Kaag on juggling the responsibilities of being an academic and a dad to a toddler.Johnny Fightershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09120816768869681933noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1241012101860379505.post-84532821209037055852013-06-20T10:07:00.000+01:002013-06-20T10:07:17.216+01:00AOI AwardsI'm delighted to report that I've won an <a href="http://www.aoiimages.com/">AOI Illustration award</a>!<br />
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I won the New Talent Award in the Editorial and Social Comment section for these two pages from my MA project <i>Capital City, </i>a graphic poem about the City and the financial crisis.<br />
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Here's what the judges had to say about my work: "<span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, helvetica; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; text-align: left;">We really liked the sense of narrative and social comment in this work. The words are written by the illustrator and so the text and image work together rather than illustration responding to a text. It is a very impressive piece of work, the spreads are stunning. It has real impact and has a lot of atmosphere.</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, helvetica; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; text-align: left;"> "</span><br />
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