When The Ship Goes Down

Look at these sur-weet prints that the nice folk at Archipelago Gallery just knocked up..

There's the shiny silver one, which is so shiny that the photo's not come out too great, but looks super chromed-out 'n' crisp in real life..

..and then there's this 'Blue Meanie' with the snazzy blue fade-up that I must thank Archipelago's in house printer person Josh Bedford for. When the silver ink ran dry Josh got busy with the blues, and I think these prints ended up looking particularly awesome. If you click on Josh's name a few sentences back you can watch him throwing himself about on his BMX, which he's pretty good at too.

There are just seven of each of these signed and numbered prints available from Archipelago for fiddy-pound-a-pop I believe. They'll frame it up for you for a good price too if you want, which will probably look a lot better than my grubby little mitts clinging to the sides.

I've given this image a good rinsing out over the past few months, what with it being featured on some shopping bags and as a free poster in Now Then magazine, so I promise that this will be the last time that The Good Ship floats out!

If you are interested in snapping up one of these souvenirs of its final voyage, then give Rupert a cyber-shout at..

rupert@archipelago-art.co.uk

Decades

Here's a poster design I did for a New Year's Eve party that, because of an unforeseen problem with the venue, I don't think ever actually ended up happening.. The whole thing was pretty last minute. I was contacted by some people from Dazed & Confused who were organizing the shindig to say they needed a quick turnaround on a promotional image, and I ended up drawing most of it sat in St. Pancras station waiting to get my train back home for christmas. Anyway, I'll probably be producing something for them for a future event at some time in the near future, but this unused 'Death of the Naughties' poster was my final piece of work from that ridiculously named decade..

I dread to think what the media's deemed fit to call this next set o'ten yizzles, but whatever they're going by, I'm kickin' 'em off with a picture I did for my French friend's new band Jimi Was Gain .. It's for their debut CD, which I'll post more about when I get my hands on a finished copy..

..In other news, which I'll go into more detail about in upcoming Blog posts, I've been proper busy painting a big 'Murial' in a place called The Chimney House in Sheffield, and the Archipelago gallery (also up in Sheffield) have just knocked up some f-fr-fresh new prints of mine, which will be available to buy off their website soon I think.. Happy Twenty-Tenty!

Silver 'n' Black Attack

I've got a new piece of work featured in an upcoming exhibition in Sheffield called..

The show's curated by Kid Acne who's also got a piece up in there, and this is the promotional flyer designed by Emily Forgot who's got a little something in there too.. Plus there're loads of other chuffers involved! Here's the back of the flyer with some more deets 'n' dates 'n' what-have-you..

All the prints are rocked out in proper dark black and sh-sh-shiny silver ink, and they'll be available for folks to see with their eyes and buy with their wads from Archipelago Works in real life and off Archipelago's web-shizzle HERE.

Any-hoo, here's the silver 'n' black picture that I chucked together for the event.. As well as the colour theme that runs through the show, there's a vague hint of a Sheffieldy vibe going on in some of the pieces too. I was up for getting a sense of that whole Northern grafter's mentality in my wee doodle, so I gave the hooded, skull-faced character in the picture some hardcore steel gauntlets that he could set fire to and not even be too boshed about it..

The breaking news for all you Pictorial Showboat fan(s?) out there is that once I'd finished the design for the print, I decided that the exhibition might be as good an excuse as any to release a new bit of comic action. It's been a few months since I released my first comic and I thought I'd best push myself to keep in the swing of it all, so over the past few days I've put some proper hours in to putting this together..

..It's not Showboat #2.. In fact it might actually be classed as more of a 'pamphlet' than a comic, as the page count clocks in at a mere four sides (including the cover).. I'll tell you what though, for a nice little companion piece to the exhibition that you'll be able to pick up exclusively at the exhibition for fiddy pence, it's not half bad like.

The Limited Edition Pictorial Showboat Special is host to the true story (that I made up t'other day) of how Sheffield's 'ROXY Disco' became 'RO Y Disco' and there's a bit in there about my fantastical inspiration for the metal fingered print design.

It's limited to 200 black 'n' white copies, which will be for sale at the show.. and even more limited (!) to 20 black 'n' silver (and white) mega sweet copies on thicker paper and all signed 'n' that.. These extra-spesh ones will only be available to the folks who buy one of my 20 prints from the gallery, who'll receive a sooped-up, shiny Showboat as a free gift to go with their new picture.. Rate good.