Im absolutely choked to hear of the death of David Carradine, as a kid my Dad and I would watch Kung-Fu religiously, its thanks to that television series and the character that David played that my love of the martial arts was kindled, China via Burbank California.
In his book "On single combat" The Wing Tsun grandmaster Kieth R Kernspecht admonishes those who have come to the arts starry eyed with their interests ingnited by the world of film, T.V, comic books and legend laughing at the idea of magic behind these ideals and yet the vast majority of martial arts practioners in the wests passion has been spurred on by what they have seen in commercial mediums...this does not lessen the message...the world of the mind always feeds reality and vice versa.
For me the seeds were planted by Kung fu then Marvels characters Master of Kung -fu and Iron fist, then onto Bruce Lee, the 36th chamber of Shaolin right up until the slew of recent Kung fu epics and finally serious training under the watchful eyes and capable hands of Grandmaster Gary Payne and Sifu Niel Syddenham.
So thank you David...whatever path you wander now I hope its a peaceful one.

Planet Tescos, a piece i did Fourteen years ago with some really manky lettering on it which has all been replaced and remixed by that lovely and multi talented comic book chappy Mister Andy Bloor!

Much love, much respect and many many thanks for the meme-ories James.

Three samples of some of the flyers from 1998 for the club Bound & Gagged, that i affectionately call the Goth upsetters because, as i have written in an earlier post, they almost got me lynched by outraged Goths who frequented the club where these nights were held.
I have since heard that the members of this morally outraged posse all hold high positions at the Daily mail.

Another of my Kevin ONeill inspired pieces, this time of a gang of loaded Terminators ready to party at the feast of Zamarkand.
One day i will meet Pat Mills and beg him without a shred of shame to let me write and draw my tribute to Torquemada "loving the alien".

Two images I did from way back in 1996, I dug them out recently and thought they deserved some exposure, I wanted to draw Batman but not in the usual grim fin headed style so I ended up dosing him with acid and attacking him with a sound effect from his sixties T.V show.
The other piece is of Two face,I wanted to draw him in the style of Charles Burns, it didnt work and the handsome half of the face is shit he looks like a mannequin but I certainly enjoyed drawing and inking the dark half.

Two other rather fine art pamphlets that i have work in, AccentUKs Zombies and a reprint anthology that cannabalised a lot of the talent from the first book and published it in America and across the world,the Mammoth book of Zombie comics.
Im massively proud to have my "Might of the living dead" strip appearing in both of them alongside two of my all time horror comics heroes, Steve Bissette (just check out that cover!!!) and Mister Steve Niles.

Those rootin tootin types at AccentUK have a new anthology out to buy right now featuring more Cowboy and Cowgirl flavoured tales than you could shake branding iron at.
Its Called WESTERN and is packed with great stories and art, you wont find a finer and more varied selection of talent between between the covers (unless you work in the porn industry) and is available to buy through Accents website for £7.99.... thats only slightly more expensive than a packet of fags these days and infinitely better for you.
Oh yeah Im in it too alongside a whole host of other super skilled people including Andy Bloor, Dave Hitchcock, James Gray, Marleen Lowe, Dwight MacPherson, Dave West, John Reppion and Leah Moore,Tim Keable and Andrew Cheverton and last but by no means least one of my boyhood comic book heroes, the legend that is.... Mister Steve Bissette ...aint life grand?