Well, it's been a while since this site got updated, eh? (2026note: In 2009, as well a now!),But university is finished and job-finding is not going very well (according to probably third-hand information from my mum, one job I applied for at a nearby laboratory got several thousand applicants -_-). I was also working on a videogame, but now that is finished I intend to give some attention to comics and story-papers once again. Though primarily my own! It's well over a year since the last issue of The Red, White & Blue was finished.
To begin with, here's a scan of a cool page from last week's issue of 2000AD (prog 1645). If you ask me it perfectly sums up the wierdness of British comics...
Why isn't competitive politeness already a thing?
And now, the logos of my own two comic projects. Here is the re-designed logo for my main comic, The Red, White & Blue, which is a mixture of picture-strips and text stories.
This was the logo used for the latter part of series 1, and all of series 2. When I re-launch series 3, the logo will be changed.
Very grand, eh? The pictures depict numerous British (or at least half British for some of them) discoveries, inventions or works that have had a large impact on the world. They include Antibiotics, the Lee-Enfield rifle, an A4 class steam locomotive, Association Football, Cricket, SS Great Britain, Boolean algebra, DNA, Newton’s Phiosiphae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, a Spitfire, a Newcomen steam engine, Lawn Tennis, a Mini (far from the first front engine front wheel drive car, but one that gave rise to the imitators that in turn gave rise to almost every car on the roads today), Concorde and of course Darwin's On the Origin of Species. Phew! Left out due to space constraints were Magna Carta, a speech baloon representing the English language, a map of the empire, some representation of Shakespeare, a King James Bible, Collosus, Television (the invention of this is disputed), a Telephone (and this), an Iron cannon and The Magnet... because Shakespeare was forgotten for a long time then rediscovered and hailed as a genius, in the same way Charles Hamilton will one day be.
This was the logo used on Series 1 Issue 1 of The Trident... the only one that ever got made! I designed a second logo for "Series 2", but that never existed at all!
The logo of The Trident, this will be an A5 sized all-text story paper. With the occasional full-page illustration, depending on the length of the story the number of these will vary. The first story is going to be an epic Sexton Blake tale set in 1916 which will see him caught up in the mire of the Western Front (I'm aiming for a balance between the jingoistic “let's get 'em!” of the contemporary story papers, and the sombre reflections of Charley's War), he then travels to a castle in Germany where secret weapons are being tested. After a lot of cloak and dagger (literally, in one scene!) action, during which the "German Blake", Herr Milzinger, will be introduced to the world, Blake and Tinker escape back to England. Here they find Herr Milzinger has preceded them and a final showdown occurs in the cosy confines of Baker Street. (2026note: I still think that one's the best Sexton Blake story I ever wrote. It's a shame it can't be read anywhere. Especially not in the Sigma Universe section of Story Info, on my main site).
I hope that issue 3 of the Red, White & Blue, and issues 1 and 2 of The Trident, will both be ready for sale at the UK Webcomix Thing 2010, which is to be held at the Great Hall, Mile End Road, London on the 27th of March. As I tend to be highly lazy with regards to buying envelopes and stamps &c, it’s unlikely I'll ever be setting up an online shop for my comics – so this event will probably the the only chance to buy them! But watch this space.