Super Sam and John Of The Night

Two pages from my ongoing webcomic, Super Sam and John of the Night webcomic, which can be seen on the Forbidden Planet Blog.

Butlins, Skegness

Along with another carer, I've had to take several of our residents on holiday to Butlins in Skegness, this week. Never in my life would I have one day thought I'd be spending a week at Butlins. Curious, isn't it, what life can present you with? Butlins turned out to be a photo opportunity heaven and therefore a great gift to me.

There was something of Patrick McGoohan's The Prisoner about Butlins' camp. Plenty of happy smiling faces, amongst pretty buildings and an architectural layout that had the unreality of a film set. Pristine, litter-free green areas that couldn't exist in the real world. A germ-free, utopian working class village, complete with cinemas, restaurants, arcades, family friendly entertainment zones, and of course, a Ladbrokes.

Easy to get out of, but you had to have a key-card to show to the security people, to get back through the gates. A prison in reverse.


Feet.


Koi carp at the Seal Sanctury, Skegness.


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Seal Sanctuary, Skegness.


Self portrait.

Stan's Cake

Everyone likes cake, don't they?

Star Wars Stormtrooper Sculpture

Modelling clay over plastic bottle.

Pastel Town

Yet another buildings and street scene.

Rispodol Injection

A drug used in mental health to counteract psychotic symptoms. A difficult drug to draw up, due to having to mix the powder into sterile water first. It's a big needle. US syringes tend to be longer. Can you guess why?

Iron Man

Old style Iron Man, as worn by Mr Tony Stark.

A Day Out in Orange City

Here's the very first drawing I ever did using photoshop, done some years ago. It's interesting to compare it to the page you can see below, which is a bang up to date episode of my Super Sam and John of the Night comic strip. I've long been fascinated with cityscapes, which have been a constant theme in my drawing. In many ways, the Super Sam strip has been a way for me to enter these cityscapes, and finally tell the stories that I imagine happen there.

All previous episodes can be seen here. forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/?cat=21