I’m on substack

ILLUSTRATED will be image heavy. I’ll try to make the files as light as possible to reduce loading times but I can’t guarantee that the content won’t be heavy. You will find short comic strips on all sorts of things, my thoughts on art and illustration, the process behind my favourite illustrations, insights about being a parent of a small child. Life, the universe, everything. That sort of stuff.

The strips are rarely comical so it’s strange to call them comic but it’s the closest description I can think of without sounding self absorbed (which I am. Sorry). They may contain some trace of comedy but only in an absurd sense. If you like humour that is not very funny, sometimes painfully close to tragedy, and leaning heavily into silliness, then you might like my strips.

I’m trying to learn how to construct stories with pictures. I have made several attempts at writing graphic novels but I have always fallen foul of conceit. All my attempts have become overblown pretentious nonsense. I think this is because I have been aiming too high. My ambition exceeds my ability, for now. You can expect these short comic strips to be experimental, funny, ridiculous and sometimes shocking.

In time, I intend to post serialised versions of graphic stories that I am working on. They won’t be perfect but they will be intentionally crafted. The objective is to push myself to self publish these stories as physical books. And you, dear subscriber will be the first to read them.