Well ok not really.  But it does feature a picture of a character I designed and helped to build when I was freelancing at Muvizu.  Another robot.  Typecasting?

Incidentally, Muvizu is a very nifty surprisingly powerful 3d animation package that lets people create animations with stock characters.   Check it out.

Full BBC article here.

It turns out, to my amazement, that my Kreepy Kat webcomic was actually pretty popular.  When I stopped the strip last month, the support I got from a whole legion of fans I never even knew about was so big, and so many people were asking why the strip finished so abruptly, that I felt like I owed them more of an explanation.  So this is an open letter to the Kreepy Kat Army…

Troops,

The response to the end of Kreepy Kat has been incredible - it turns out Kreepy was a lot more popular than I realised.  Thanks for all your kind words and supportive emails.  I have to admit that all the positive feedback did make me think twice about killing Kreepy.  The girls who sent photos - you know who you are - were particularly persuasive.  Yow.

But not enough.  Kreepy means a lot to me and will probably keep appearing in my work occasionally, but as an ongoing weekly concern he really is over.

I’m stopping Kreepy for three main reasons:

1) I think the central joke has run its course - at least for the time being.  I never wanted Kreepy to be a one-trick pony and I always tried to keep the strip fresh and inventive, but for a while now it’s felt like the same thing over and over again.  I want to quit while I’m ahead, before I just start churning out derivative rubbish just to fill the weekly slot.
2) I just wasn’t enjoying it any more.
3) None your goddamn business.

Maybe Kreepy will return someday, when I feel the inspiration again - or get offered big buckets full of cash - but for now, he’s dead.

Thanks again for reading all the depraved bile seeping from my brain over the past few years.

Now get the hell away from me, you disgusting legion of morally repulsive freaks.

DISMISSED.

Al

Jamie Hewlett does homeware.  There is nothing about that idea that I don’t like.

Who wants to buy me one?

So, Frank Frazetta’s dead.  Not really my kind of scene any more but as a kid he had a huge impact on me.   He always stood head and shoulders over every other sword n sorcery artist, and even if you’re not a fan of the subject matter you can’t deny the man’s talent and enormous influence.  R.I.P.

Testing out some skin ideas.  The trick to good skin seems to be in getting the complexity/subtlety balance right.

Heavy Sam Mckenzie influences showing here.

Working on these illustrations for a new graphic novel & magazine shop opening soon in Glasgow.  Details to follow.

My weekly webcomic Kreepy Kat is now dead.  I think the joke is over.  The little bastard will still probably keep turning up in my sketches but as a going weekly concern he’s finished.

Thank God for that.

Here’s an ad for a new Samsung 3D tv that I worked on as a freelancer last year, building models, organising the extra texturing and animating camera moves.  I had no input on the jokes.  Just so we’re clear.

I was surprised to discover the voiceover guy turned out to be deranged comedy piledriver Rich Fulcher - AKA Bob Fossil from the Mighty Boosh.  Sweet.

Another Lusi Sulfura pinup. Trying out something totally different.