This is a comic by Jamie Smart - creator of the Bear comic and Fat Chunk anology - about the recent death of his Dad.  It’s funny and sad and painful and brilliant.  Read it.

See more of Jamie’s work here and here.

Alex Ronald is a Scottish artist that used to draw Judge Dredd (and a bunch of other strips) for 2000AD.  These days he freelances as a concept artist while working full-time in the CG industry, and is really, really bloody marvellous at drawing stuff.  He is also an entertaining guy to drink heavily with.

Check out his blog here and bask in the awesome backlit glow.

Incidentally, the peak of his career to date  (I’m sure he would agree) is surely this strip from a certain feline-themed webcomic.

Issue 3 of the Wasted comic anthology is now on sale, with a cover by comics legend Simon Bisley…

The issue features a new 4 page Lusi Sulfura strip, which you can preview below and at her site.  This strip was actually originally done a while ago - so long ago that the judges had to be updated to remove Sharon Osbourne and insert the current pretty cardboard mannequins before publication!

Etc…

Wasted comic has a nice little viral video ad for issue 2, featuring my Lusi Sulfura cover quite heavily…

The tune is by Glasgow’s premier electro disco hip hop kingpin, the Niallist.  He’s a driving force behind the brain melt of Little Rock Records, and his first music video is right here.  F-F-F-FRESH.

Rock the Shop - The Niallist from Che Camille on Vimeo.

Still playing around with my new Wacom tablet… also trying something a bit less cartoony as a wee change.

Couple of process pics as well for the original inked pic (note the weird position of her left eye that I had to fix) and the coloured outlines I cut out before starting on the colour fills.

Check out Lusi’s website here.  Obviously.

Gavin Lees at the Comics Journal website has recently posted a great review of the Scottish underground comics scene, including the Wasted anthology where my Lusi Sulfura character appears.  I would say it’s great, of course, because he says:

Alan Kerr’s “Lusi Sulfura” and Curt Sibling’s “Total Fear” are also stand-out works, mainly due to the sheer slickness of their art.  Kerr’s titular demon is his sounding-board for railing against the watering down of alternative culture — from the limpness of emo to designer rock fashion — all rendered in a gorgeous pop art style with thick, inky lines and vector pattern shading.  His cover to Wasted’s second issue even manages to rival Frank Quitely’s for sheer energy.

Cheers Gavin!

Click here for part 1 and here for part 2 of the article.

A couple of my friends had a baby last year, and I did this family portrait as a wee present.

Awww?  Awwwwwwww.

A new Lusi Sulfura pinup I did over the weekend.  This started as a doodle and but I decided to finish it off, mainly to try out my sexy new Wacom tablet, which is the best thing since… well… um… look, it’s just pretty sweet.

Lusi’s tshirt here is Kevin Dart’s fictional 60’s cinema superspy Yuki 7.  Check out his brilliant fake swingin’-60’s-spy posters; click here for a personal favourite…

Well, OK, it’s middle shelf action.

Finally spotted a copy of Wasted in a newsagents, featuring my Lusi Sulfura cover.  Being a nerd, I took a photo.

2 mags away from the Newsweek and the Economist.  Hmmmm.

I was given the Jack Kirby book for Christmas.  All that volcanically intense , pop-violence artwork really made me miss drawing big, dumb fight scenes.  So I drew one!

I tried to draw, ink & colour this as quickly as possible to keep some kind of fun momentum in the images.  It’s also the first comic I’ve inked with the brush pen - I’m obviously still struggling to loosen up my death-grip on precision inking but it did make things about ten times faster.  There’s definitely a lot more action and flow to the characters as well.

So buckle up, turn off your brain and enjoy.

More Lusi Sulfura here.