FIST FULL OF INDIO

EXCELSIOR! HAIL TO THE KING BABY!

2012-02-09T08:37:00.001-08:00

COSMIC RAY Versus THE PURPLE OM.

2012-02-01T08:35:00.001-08:00

Me creating more covers that only exist on the shelves of the Comic Shops in my Dreams!

The Further adventures of Cosmic Ray in... Battle at the Crackhouse of Ideas!

WALKER OF THE PALE SHORES

2012-01-09T01:59:00.001-08:00

BRAINIAC 42 (Electronic Sounds via Laurie Anderson)

2012-01-01T05:19:00.000-08:00

SELF REGULATING PRINCIPLES OF VAGUE.

2011-12-11T10:24:00.000-08:00

Einstein Rosen Reg

2011-12-04T05:02:00.001-08:00

William S. Burroughs Lives!

2011-11-23T04:20:00.000-08:00

Lucy Fur.

2011-11-10T07:49:00.000-08:00

CANNIBAL POPE.

2011-11-06T04:17:00.000-08:00

GYAKUSHU

2011-11-03T03:25:00.000-07:00

Dan Hipps Bandaged, Battle Scarred One Man Revenge Machine.

Urik Surusian

2011-11-01T03:01:00.001-07:00

CHIEF OF THE TERMIGHT TRAFFIC POLICE!

2011-10-27T00:57:00.000-07:00

INDIO CYBERMAN REFIT

2011-10-20T06:16:00.000-07:00

EVACUATOR.

2011-10-19T01:22:00.000-07:00

The Return of VIOLET STORM

2011-03-28T03:04:00.000-07:00

My old mate Loo done up as her Nineties Porn star alter ego

WONDER WOMAN

2011-03-22T23:30:00.000-07:00

Rough sketch of COSMIC RAY.

2011-03-21T08:38:00.000-07:00

The Mystic Numbers of COSMIC RAY.

2011-03-19T10:48:00.000-07:00

Did a sketch of a chappy a few months ago that was a mash up of Marvel characters and general weirdness who became "Cosmic Ray" then this piece evolved onto the paper and before I knew it I was dealing with "The return of COSMIC RAY!"

Szandora LaVey

2011-03-18T18:33:00.001-07:00

Doctor Benway meets Jordan.

2011-03-13T23:28:00.000-07:00

DOLLY ROCKET.

2011-03-06T13:39:00.001-08:00

BONNIE DELIGHT!

2011-02-20T22:36:00.001-08:00

The Californian Burlesque Superstar Miss Bonnie

Delight!

Her Satanic Majesty!

2011-02-20T22:31:00.001-08:00

Gilded.

2011-02-19T08:14:00.001-08:00

SONGS IN THE KEY OF DEATH.

2011-02-14T14:33:00.000-08:00

Death comes to Toytown.

2011-02-07T08:46:00.000-08:00

Pezuala Marsh, Innsmouth Homecoming Queen.

2011-02-07T08:32:00.000-08:00

THE SUBLIMINAL MAN.

2011-02-05T16:01:00.000-08:00

I have my own Super Hero tale that has boiled up pretty much fully formed into my Brain which Im going to Crack on with after I finish Stephensons Robot, Heres one of my Villians Sublimino.

Its going to be my take on what makes Superheroes great, Widescreen Ultraviolence, Secret Origins, Cool Costumes but with a Charlie Kaufmanesque Whimsy...oh yeah and Drugs...lots of Drugs....

ACID ZOMBIE.

2011-02-01T14:02:00.000-08:00

HAUNTED DANCEHALL.

2011-01-24T22:57:00.000-08:00

MIRACLEWOMAN.

2011-01-22T05:11:00.000-08:00

Everyone Raves about the Watchmen and its one of my Great Comicbook loves too but the book that really blew my head off as a Teenager was Miracleman, Alan Moores epic treatment of the Captain Marvel Mythos.

Miraclewoman or Avril Lear was reimagined by Moore as a Pornographic Priestess that brought comfort to the lonely and frustrated of the World.

This is my version of her!

PANINI.

2011-01-18T13:50:00.001-08:00

VON.

2011-01-09T06:59:00.000-08:00

CROSS HATCH END.

2010-12-23T13:52:00.000-08:00

Just finished Issue three of Stephensons Robot and have wound down over the last couple of weeks with some excercises in Pure Ink Drawing!

OLYMPIC PILLAGE.

2010-12-19T22:00:00.001-08:00

AGGRO-NAUT

2010-12-17T06:27:00.001-08:00

The Pupils of Hassan. I .Sabbah

2010-12-17T06:25:00.000-08:00

The Blasphemous Tumours of Cardinal Whoozy.

2010-11-27T09:22:00.000-08:00

You, Me the Continuum.

2010-11-22T14:33:00.000-08:00

A couple of years ago I came across the work of a Japanese Artist called Shintaro Kago who drew these immense pictures of exploding bodies with masses of items spilling neatly out of the biological fractures.

I decided I wanted to do a homage to his work, this is the result.

RETROSLAVE.

2010-11-22T12:55:00.000-08:00

BLOOD ON SATANS CLAW.

2010-11-13T01:01:00.000-08:00

I recently saw Mark Gattis's a History of Horror which was a totally fascinating overview of the Horror movie genre.

In the second episode he covered the Hammer films and I got to hear about two old movies I had never heard of but both of which look like absolute Blinders the First was BLACK SUNDAY and the second was BLOOD ON SATANS CLAW which sounded real dark, I was amused to see a little cameo by Betty Frank Spencers wife.

This was inspired by its title and ROSEMARYS BABY as the original title for this piece was "He has his Fathers eyes."

ALL HAIL DESTROYER!

2010-11-06T06:33:00.001-07:00

HAPPY HALLOWEEN.

2010-10-30T03:31:00.001-07:00

An Oldie but a Goldie!

2010-10-30T03:20:00.000-07:00

I put one of my crass dodgy jokes up on Facebook as an update a few weeks back and then had a barrage of equally bad ones followed as comments afterwards and there was a corker left by my Mucker SweetP involving Batman and the Boy Wonder that I had never heard before even though it must be as old as The Dark knight himself, so I gave it Flesh and Ink and turned into a 3 panel strip.

The joke is contained in the first two panels and the final Alfred one one is all me just to round it off nicely!

No doubt this will endear me no end with any D.C editorial staff if they ever happen to stumble across it!

THE ATAVISTS.

2010-10-26T12:15:00.001-07:00

A piece thats sat as a set of random lines in my sketchbook until 5 A.M Saturday when I turned it into this while listening to Rob Da Banks show.

TONY STARK..RAVING MAD.

2010-10-17T22:20:00.001-07:00

ALTAR OF SACRIFICE!

2010-10-17T03:41:00.000-07:00

A sneak preview from Stephensons Robot issue three, if you want Blood...

RUMMAGE.

2010-10-14T11:44:00.001-07:00

TEP ZEPPI, Star Factory.

2010-10-07T10:46:00.000-07:00

THE CITALOPRAM WALTZ ( Immense Nervous Dreadache?)

2010-10-02T04:37:00.000-07:00

"Not sure where I end and the fever begins.." (THE RETURN OF NO NECK & DOGBOY!)

2010-09-19T12:30:00.000-07:00

"STRIKE TERROR INTO THEIR HEARTS!"

2010-09-11T08:18:00.000-07:00

Dinner Dinner Dinner Dinner BATMAN!

Only just got round to inking this, did the pencils for this when the original Tim Burton Movie came out in 1989, it did have some rather puny looking mugger up to no good in the foreground so I stripped him out and added most of the classic villians.

PANOPLY

2010-08-30T11:32:00.001-07:00

POISON IVY & AUDREY 3.

2010-08-08T10:27:00.000-07:00

First in a series of my depictions of BATMAN Villians...and lets face it the Villians are the best thing about Bats!

Colour-Trapease.

2010-08-05T14:31:00.000-07:00

A very old piece that I came across in one of my art bundles, coloured on a real Cro-magnon Computer about ten years ago.
Thats a real live Eggs Ackley Dildo she's a holdin thar!

LORD of DISDAIN.

2010-07-31T00:12:00.001-07:00

INFLATABLE LENNY Versus CAUSTIC ZANZIBARR

2010-07-21T09:25:00.000-07:00

Deranged Attractor.

2010-07-11T07:55:00.001-07:00

STAGNANT GIZZARD, NITROUS INJECTOR.

2010-07-06T11:58:00.000-07:00

WE ALL LIVE IN THE YELLOW DUB MACHINE!

2010-07-01T08:55:00.000-07:00

Found these two beauties coloured by Young Dave West in my inbox this morning.

Fresh scenes of the Martian Engineers/Monks from Stephensons Robot.

Dave and Jon Ayre want a three page intro for the back up story featuring these guys each issue, all that they told me is that they are Robots, they are on Mars and they are descended from Kingdom and thats it...they then leave me alone to dream the rest of it into existance, letting me riff on all things Mars related real and fictional... its an absolute treat!

Here we see Weird and Gilly traversing the Martian skies in a hybrid of a Pedallo and a VERY famous submersible.

THE LORD WYERD SLOUGH FEG.

2010-06-22T22:27:00.000-07:00

I was a massive Slaine fan back in the Eighties before it went full colour and, quite frankly, a bit Poo and I always liked the druids as drawn by the Mighty Mike McMahon and Massimo Bellardinelli especially SLOUGH FEG so I decided to do a version of him ,not quite nailed it but I think Im going to have another pop at drawing him again sometime soon.

I KALI

2010-06-19T02:53:00.001-07:00

MARTIAN CHRONICLERS.

2010-06-15T10:54:00.000-07:00

Here are a few character designs for the Martian Engineers from Stephensons Robot.

With a sneaky guest appearance from The ABC Warriors DEADLOCK.

GODFATHERS OF TECHNO.

2010-06-13T22:37:00.000-07:00

A sneaky preview from issue 2 of Stephensons Robot.
Here we see Brunel and Stephenson visiting Charles Babbage and his difference engine.
Babbage wasnt just the Grandaddy of computing he was also a pioneer in the battle against noise pollution which led local organ grinders to gather outside his property with the express intention of pissing him off, hence the scene where he clouts that chappy round the head with part of his library.
Bottom panel features Stephenson trying out a remote viewing device.

BLACK FLAG!

2010-05-31T09:13:00.000-07:00

Heres a piece that I pencilled back in 1989 of Anarchist Superheroes BLACK FLAG champions of alternate Earth 88, they appeared in Grant Morrisons much loved comic strip ZENITH.

Every time I have rooted through my art box they have stared at me accssuingly waiting for their helping of Ink so I gave them the black blood this weekend.

I tried to keep the inks loose to suit the pencilling technique of a young me desperately trying to ape Steve Yeowells style.

Its a bit static but I think it works...

From L to R... DOMINO, MANTRA 93, D.J CHILL & ROBOT ARCHIE.

DOCTOR DONALD SEVERIN.

2010-05-30T05:05:00.000-07:00

I planned and began a graphic novel called Kingdom of the back in 2004, it was going to be fifty or so pages long and encapsulate everything I love about Sci/fi, Horror & Monster movies and Comic books.

Heres the Villian, Doctor Donald Severin ...Science Pirate , Horribly deformed survivor, Interdimensional technology thief and all round Bad Egg!

ZAP EM WITH SIRENS!

2010-05-29T15:42:00.000-07:00

R.I.P Dennis Hopper and thanks for all the pleasure you gave my Brain.

Ride easy Cowboy....and if they ask you when you get there tell em "Cheques in the mail!"

DOOM!

2010-05-28T23:28:00.000-07:00

Found this on a site called Distantgeese.com and being the immature fool that I am and a long time Fantastic four fan I promptly pissed myself at thier mad comedic brilliance... a magical mix of John Buscemas art and completely offensive dialogue.... all comics should be like this!

Doktor Zigmund Floyd and his Dog Jungenstein.

2010-05-20T12:03:00.000-07:00

UNDERGOD and SIDEKICK T.V

2010-05-08T04:00:00.000-07:00

D.R & QUINCH The Totally Awesome guide to Life.

2010-05-07T23:20:00.000-07:00

I found these pieces of Gorgeosity whilst browsing some blog or other two days ago and I had to steal them and post them here , D.R & Quinch Alan Moore and Alan Davis finest hour!

For those not in the know it was a short but sweet run of stories in the pages of 2000a.d chronciling the misadventures of two misunderstood adolescent Super fiends called Waldo D.R (Diminished responsibility) Dobbs and Ernest Errol QUINCH.

From what I understand Mister Moore wasnt overly impressed with what he was writing and didnt find his own throwaway jokes about the use of Thermonuclear Weapons funny due to the Geopolitical climate of the time and the very real threat of mutually assured destruction that hung over all of us....I kind of think he missed his own point, I found it a welcome relief from that cloying atmosphere of paranoia and terror....I also found two of the greatest role models of my young life who'se irreverent and utterly deranged outlook went on to inform my own.

And Alan Davis art has never looked better, these characters were totally alive, everything perfectly rendered nothing wasted with a wondeful fifties retro ambience, I have only ever seen anything on par with it and thats a beautifully executed piece of QUINCH by an ultra talented chappy called Garen Ewing.

In my most demented daydreams I imagine PIXAR or BLUESKY coming to the rescue and bringing these boys to the bigscreen for a Morality free, Extraterrestrial, coming of age, Rom com, Disaster, all out complete and utter total Nuclear War movie to end them all.

BRING ON THE DANCING KITTENS.

2010-04-29T09:26:00.000-07:00

Strange Angels

2010-04-25T03:41:00.000-07:00

Way back in 1998 I was introduced to a guy called Dave Notaro who was organizing a free A3 magazine which distributed via Sexshops would provide advertising space for Porn stars, Escorts and other assorted Adult industry services he wanted to fill the rest of it with articles, artwork and comic strips.

The venture was going to be called Fetish UK or FUK for short, it was going to be the British equivalent to Al GoldSteins SCREW magazine, I saw a mocked up copy and it looked amazing.

I was offered an A3 page in each monthly issue to do with as I liked, it sounded to good to be true... so I went away and came up with STRANGE ANGELS, it was going to be about an Alien Sex Fiend called Insanika who breaches our reality and takes over the Earth having all sorts of riotous sexual misadventures until her work here was done.

Part H.R Giger Wet dream, part Carry on film I forged ahead the one strict premise to make sure that although there was a storyline to follow each page featured was as demented as possible.

Unfortunately for reasons beyond Daves control FUK never saw the light of day so here for the first time are two of the three completed strips I completed for it, part 2 and the Millenium special.

Plague of Vampires.

2010-04-20T08:34:00.001-07:00

Did some character designs some years ago now for a comic project that was going to be published by a Fetish company about a team of Superhero vampires.

Here are a handful of the designs, I think it was going to be called Transmuters.

Straight outta Cube Earth.

2010-04-18T08:17:00.000-07:00

I wrote a fairly detailed synopsis way back in 2003 for a 3 issue Superman comic to entertain myself more than anything else.

It spanned his career from the forties till now and then the far flung future.

I really enjoyed it especially since he is one of my all time favourite Superheroes, whilst I was in the midst of that I did a few character sketches, this is one of them...BIZARRO SUPERMAN.

Operating difficulties with the Cosmic Awareness Engine.

2010-04-16T23:27:00.000-07:00

The Mighty CTHULU.

2010-04-15T14:08:00.000-07:00

THE DUNWICH HORROR.

2010-04-14T12:09:00.000-07:00

NEVER MIND THE BOLLOX HERES THE DEAD PISTOL.

2010-04-08T14:01:00.000-07:00

Malcolm McClaren...He Dead!

Some say Genius, some say Cunt...the juries out on that one but no matter which way it swings when the cultural verdict finally comes in he always brought a smile to my face!

SOCKET!

2010-04-07T08:18:00.001-07:00

I found the original of this on Shane Oakleys blog a wonderful example of his art and the skill he has of putting together these solid fiendish lumps of villiany.

The characters name is Socket and it was this beautiful pencil sketch of an Uncle Fester/Frankie Stein type with an enormous lightning bolt on his chest, I couldnt help myself and had to do an EL INDIO remix of it!

Thankfully I got the Dark masters blessing... so my next child wont be born with a club foot!!!! PHEW!

Etch a sketch!

2010-04-06T01:19:00.000-07:00

Another one from my sketchbooks, seems peeved doesnt she? I love heavy crosshatching!

Looks like rain!.

2010-04-06T01:15:00.000-07:00

Found this one in an old sketchbook, dunno what she is looking at but she sure is Purty!

THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE The Critics

2010-04-04T02:35:00.001-07:00

CANNI-BAAL.

2010-04-03T05:24:00.001-07:00

THE TOADFACE MANIFESTO.

2010-03-30T10:17:00.001-07:00

CRACKITY JONES

2010-03-28T07:00:00.001-07:00

MIDDLE OF NOWHERE Head of Jade..

2010-03-26T10:50:00.000-07:00

Here we see the ABSOLUTE MASTERS of REALITY consulting the head of Jade Goody for sage advice on a brand new money making scheme.

R.I.P John Hicklenton .

2010-03-24T14:58:00.000-07:00

I have just been told that John Hicklenton one of the artists involved in the final wave of genius to seethe from the pages of 2000ad back in the late 1980's has passed away at the age of 42 after a long battle with Multiple sclerosis.
He was the subject of a moving documentary shown on More4 last year which came and went with minimal coverage or fanfare from the comics community which I think is pretty poor show really.
I can only dream of conjuring half the madness he was capable of putting onto the page, wherever you are now John I salute you.

The MIDDLE OF NOWHERE.

2010-03-21T11:53:00.001-07:00

Im a big fan of certain Newspaper strips, the use of just three panels to convey a joke, an ongoing adventure or something more profound day in day out for decades is a real art and the masters deserve their dues.
Its something I like to dip into every now and again just to sprinkle a little bit of my sickness into the continuum,these one offs go under the moniker of the MIDDLE OF NOWHERE....in this episode we see Dogface and No neck meet God.

SEXY EGGFACE.

2010-03-21T01:58:00.001-07:00

Heres a little something I cooked up for my old mate Phil, its called Sexy Eggface and came into being due to one of the many deranged text messages we send one another to keep ourselves sane during the interminable boredom of the working week, His never fail to get my freak on.
Phil has a Spike Milligan style nack for insane names and scenarios (he has, like Milligan, also spent a few periods in the bughouse) which then fly through the ether into my mobile and then onto my brain, at some point I want to put a book together written by Phil and illustrated by me just so his talent for the totally absurd isnt wasted

SEX PISTOL

2010-03-13T03:51:00.000-08:00

Way back in the nineties when I was designing flyers for Bound and gagged I put together a line of marital aids to amuse myself.

Here is one of them that I found in the EL INDIO archives...the Sex Pistol.

Im not entirely sure how it works but I have a hankering to draw the character who wields this debauched weapon!

Septic Thunderlungs!

2010-02-28T07:39:00.000-08:00

All hail the Teeth of Zac Efron.

2010-02-28T07:33:00.001-08:00

Not so much a monster at work as a musing at work about the horrible twists and turns about to beset one of my all time favourite comic characters at the hands of SONY executives...as if they hadnt fucked the mythos enough with Spiderman 3.
I tried channeling the artistic powers of the mighty Breandan McCarthy with this one...and he's not even Dead!

Young Pretender.

2010-02-28T07:27:00.000-08:00

Here are the Pumpkin boys, two characters that my 5 year old son Cody drew yesterday.

Im a proud Pa for sure, in the not too distant future this boys talents are going to wipe the floor with his dear ol' Dads!

Queen Vic!

2010-02-24T22:23:00.000-08:00

Another Wild West full colour panel!
Here we see Brunel and Stephenson in the presence of a young, voluptuous and Opium smoking Queen Victoria.

The Eve of the Warmachine.

2010-02-23T11:43:00.000-08:00

This is very naughty of me but I just got this in my inbox from young Dave West, a coloured panel from issue 2 of Stephensons Robot that Dave is busy working his way through right now and its a beauty so I thought I would share the wealth!

The Sniper.

2010-02-20T07:52:00.001-08:00

A panel from Issue 3 of Stephensons Robot in which a chap with murderous intent is up to no good.

STEAM POWER.

2010-02-20T07:38:00.001-08:00

Kingdom about to kick some serious arse!

The Conjuring.

2010-02-20T07:32:00.000-08:00

A sneak peak from issue two in which we see the Demon Hastur pulled into our world from beyond by a master of the dark arts and witnessed by a very flustered Stephenson.

Harbinger of Sorrow.

2010-02-20T07:27:00.000-08:00

Heres a panel from issue 3 of Stephensons Robot involving the diabolical Bespectacled man, take directions from this guy and die!