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.

A quick look at three stages of creating a Lusi Sulfura page - inks, B&W Photoshop composition and colouring.

Hopefully have this new comic done by next week.

For various reasons I took nearly a month off of drawing anything recently, and getting used to the pencil again has been weirdly awkward.

No new finished stuff to show you, but here’s some of my practice sketches, trying to get back into the swing of things.  The first page was particularly horrible to draw.  Which is why some of it is shite.

Powwkipsie is a sporadic webcomic by the thing known only as Iain Laurie.  It’s  a heavily disturbing body-horror acid trip of a comic and feels a little like a catastrophic psychotic meltdown.

I think the latest episode is Iain’s masterpiece to date.  Check it out and despair. Just don’t expect to feel good about yourself afterwards.

Suuuuuper busy on all kinds of nonsense just now, so I havn’t been drawing much new stuff.

Instead, here’s an old illo from a couple of years ago, for commission that fell through before I got paid.  Anyone want it?

So I discovered motionographer this week, an animation blog/showcase which is simultaneously incredibly inspiring and unbelievably humbling in a depressing, why-even-f*cking-bother kind of way.

Working my way through their archives now.  Here’s a couple of my faves… so far.

FLAIRS - TRUCKERS DELIGHT from 3rd Side Records on Vimeo.

Un tour de Manège from Les Manèges on Vimeo.

The Cat Piano from PRA on Vimeo.