Fat Chunk Volume Two - Zombies is out now! It was meant to be delayed till next week, but people are buying it from stores already, so lets take that as a good sign!

Fat Chunk collects together artists from all over the world, from well-known comics titans to fresh new webcomic talent to urban toy designers, and everything in between, and it slaps them all together in a tidy little digest-size anthology! Volume Two - Zombies adds a little rotting flesh to the mix as a variety of artists do their take on the bumbling undead. With over SIXTY artists filling just under 140 pages, you’re sure to find some of the artists you love and discover new ones!

Artists involved in this issue include Aaron Alexovitch, Pete Underhill, Jon Burgerman, Marc Ellerby, Thomas Boatwright, Sarah McIntyre, Nelson Evergreen, and oh fuck FAR more than I can mention here.

Published by SLG Publishing, available to buy from your local comic shop (Diamond code APR090632), book shop, or from amazon etc! We’re only a humble book trying to promote people’s art, PLEASE spread the word and support Fat Chunk! (check out all the details at www.fatchunkcomic.com)

Thanks yous!

Jamie

ps. to promote the book, every day for the next week I’ll be exclusively posting up some of the work inside! Check Fumblog.com EVERY DAY for new awesome art from a select few Fat Chunk contributors. (Let’s kick things off today, with my own first two pages of Corporate Skull!)

today’s fumblog is Fatty Hamster, the daft little fucker who got so fat he couldn’t get out of his rollerball. mmyayyyy! come and check out fumblog if you’re not already, it’s updated every day, sometimes it might be some rubbish sketch i did when i was five that i can barely be bothered to scan, sometimes it might be a full 24-page comic (as it was last week). i’m only being honest, it’s a raggedy mix of emotions that website. for yeww. YEWWWW. take it, yew.

not been much to update on this journal for a while, there’s exciting news next week but for now you may have to suffer me verbally heatstroke. incidentally, would anyone be up for another Bear auction? i’m just toying with the idea of selling more pages, paintings, and artwork from other comics what i did done too. if you’d be interested in this, lemme know!

be well. you’re the future.

jx

Well, here it is, a full comic for your perusal up HERE. In this comic I think i first started to find my way, playing with brush strokes and the use of dark space. It’s also thinly veiled representation of my actual useless life at the time, something which has repeated itself in every comic I’ve since done (though the metaphors get more obscure :p)

This is my continuing effort to find a way to put my work up for free, and yet still possibly claw a few pennies in. I love that this comic is free to view, I don’t expect people to pay for it, and I’m totally happy with that. If anyone does donate (as much or little as they want), then obviously I’ll be very appreciative ^_^ lets see how this works as to whether I do it again.

Enjoy!

Thank you to everyone who offered suggestions on the whole ‘how to put a comic online and still claw a few bloodied cents out of it’ issue, i really appreciate everyone’s input and i’ll be thinking it through carefully. maybe the best way is to try a different approach for each comic i put online, see if any work better than others. anyway, next comic coming up on Fumblog soon!
Things are actually going pretty well at the moment. I’m juggling Desperate Dan and Count Von Poo duties and ploughing through them both. I’ve been waiting on news of my various tv projects but in the meantime Disney have asked me to do a handful of character designs for a show they’ve got in development, which looks like alot of fun and a new experience for me, coming up with characters someone else has invented. Alongside all that, there’s the relaunch of Find Chaffy which is so bloody secret i don’t even know all the details, but it’s going to be something really fun i think.

So yeah, all that and they’ve FINALLY invented giant fondant fancies. Busy, and cake-filled, times. On with the bank holiday, and here are a few things you should see.

The Ubu Bubu animation, by Greaney!

the new game from the Ico types!

and lastly, God’s final greatest moment. the JERBOA!

have a good one

x

Well I tried with downloadable comics for Subversive, Eden (check it out HERE) but on the whole I’m not sure it really worked. About 30 people downloaded it (and thanks to YOU if you did) which is nice, but i don’t think I even make a few dollars out of that after all the costs are done. Shame, Subversive was a great little comic I thought, but it was worth a try.
So it leaves me wondering any other ways of releasing comics online. I have the next one ready to go, a 26-page comic called Ass Munket, and a good few more waiting in the wings. These are comics I don’t want to release in paper form, I think they’re better suited to trying out the onlineyness. I guess my next option is to put the comic up online as a viewable web page, and ask for donations if people have enjoyed it. Like bands are doing with their music. That way some people get it for free, some pay a contribution if they want to.
What does anyone think, would you contribute if a comic was up like this? Or do you think there are better ways of doing it? Opinions please!

thanks ^_^
jx

ps this week and next I’m drawing up my Count Von Poo scripts for Toxic comic. On the whole they’ve been very welcoming and allowed me to do what I want with it, which is always nice. Though some things they have asked me to reign in, such as things like this.

aww

In these times of terrorism, economic catastrophe and now even the PIGS are trying to kill us, one can get a little weary of doom. Doom’s become an acceptable threat now, an everyday risk we all run. It never…quite..happens, but the news likes to tell us it’s GOING TO. thank goodness, now we’ve all become a bit bored of knowing we’re going to die horribly, the internet is still here, still gurgling along with it’s menagerie of opinions, keeping the rational point of view at all times.

Like for instance this review of Bohda Te up at someone’sblogiguess (thanks to SLG for pointing it out on their blog), where the reviewer struggles to find what his actual opinion is. I think he THINKS he hates it, he was certainly DUPED into buying it because he was too lazy to look up what it actually was, and now he’s telling us all…well…i don’t KNOW what he’s telling us.

Let us leave it to him to summarize Bohda Te “I can barely believe I read all of it. It’s complete nonsense. NONSENSE!”
Remember, if YOU want to buy Bohda Te because you didn’t know what it was and whatever it is confuses you, you still can! Tell your comic store to order some in!

A rather more sensible (read: nicer to Jamie) review is up at Hypergeek about my recent one dollar download Subversive, Eden (which you can bag a copy of by going HERE). Wherein Ed (thanks Ed!) concludes ‘go download it, make a cup of tea, sit back, and get ready to laugh your arse off.’

Lastly, sad news, today’s Whubble is the penultimate one before the series ends next week. But recently I found this great review of it (’what an amazing discovery this webcomic turned out to be’) which was very lovely of them

And there we go. My tv meetings are going well incidentally, good response and Angry Little Robot seems to be charming the most. I don’t get it myself, he’s a wonderful tin of rage but hardly kid-friendly tv? meh, anyway, i continue to work up ideas and talk to peoples and hopefully will have some news soon.

Bye! See you in pig swine hell!

jx

I am VERY chuffy to be able to say I got a new comic for your perusal, ‘Subversive, Eden’. I actually drew it a few years ago, but I can safely say I think it ranks amongst some of my best work, and the sheer amount of graft that went into it mean I’m immensely proud of it and keen for people to see it.
This is my first attempt at a downloadable comic. For only a dollar you can download Subversive, Eden (18 pages long) as a pdf from Literate Machine, click HERE to get hold of a copy!
Please gimme some feedback on the process, if you think it works well and whether it’s a good system. I have a bundle more comics I’d like to make downloadable if you like the system

Check out more Subversive previews HERE!

Here’s some news, all wrapped up in some salt beef. Mmm. Salt beef.

- Just heard today that Count Von Poo won the vote to appear in Toxic as a regular character! hooRAY! a massive THANK YOU to anyone who voted, now my little pooey vampire has been elected into office I promise not to let you down. His smeary adventures will be of the highest peanut-lodged standard! I’ll talk more about it when he starts appearing, probably in a month or two.

- I did an interview for the downloadable mag Cut Click, so go and download it NOW. and HERE. I talk about stuff and things, and there are other stuff and things in it. And it’s FREE. No excuse, really.

- today’s Whubble is up, only two more wheeks of him left and then he ends. thank you to everyone for the support, demands, and death threats on account of him ending, it’s genuinely lovely to know he’s become a something for some people but alas, i just don’t have enough time at the moment to keep him going. maybe one day.

- lastly, tomorrow is the launch of Subversive, Eden. Check back here then, it’s going to be mighty!

dancin’!

jx

today’s WHUBBLE is up (om!). Whubble will come to an end in three weeks time, i’m sorry to say. So suck in the purpley cat hairs while you can!

incidentally, there’s a massive bastard sale on at theSLG STORE , with 30% off! use the coupon code taxtime09 to get the discount. yay! cheap stuff is good stuff!

alright that’s all. how you were.

jx