Lady Dalek Hoop Dress

I once read an interview with Terry Nation, who created the daleks, in which he stated that the inspiration for the daleks came when he saw a woman wearing a hoop dress. The gliding walk struck him as spooky and this thought led on to the creation of the classic monster.

It certainly ought to be possible to make this dress. The hat might be a problem though.

Captain America

The first Avenger.

Mickey Mouse Dalek

This seemed to me to be such an obvious drawing to do that I was sure I'd find other versions around the web. But a quick search has found none. So perhaps I'm the first?

Interview

There's an interview with me on the Forbidden Planet blog about Super-Sam and John of the Night. Go read:
Forbidden Planet

They will return.

Sam and John Landscape

A drawing featuring many of the characters from my webcomic Super Sam and John Of The Night.

From the top: the three Superkids, Mary Volk (creating her sinister living graffiti), The crime lord Boss Million and his aid Sawtooth, Sally Sunday at her painting easel, a dinosaur (not featured in the comic strip), Doctor Meridian and Yancy Meridian, Jimmy Cyclops, the Ultraface, Monica and Nog (two mob assassins), A. D. Voltain (John's grandfather), Sam Samsonite (Super Sam or Sam Of The Sun), John Voltain (John Of The Night), and Moondog.

Any questions?

http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/?cat=21

Forest Blue

Years old drawing. One of the very first I coloured using Photoshop.

À l'intérieur (Inside)

A classic 'innocent stalked by a killer' film. A young pregnant girl is menaced in her home by strange woman.

I can honestly say that I can't think I've ever seen a more violent movie. The film takes no prisoners. Beatrice Dalle (she of Betty Blue fame), wearing black and a demonic expression, does brutal damage to anyone she comes across in this French thriller. Stabbings, throat cutting, eye-gouging, shootings, exploding heads, and you name it. It's all on show. Dalle is not so much a character, as an unrelenting primal force, fuelled by an incoherent rage. It's obvious from the beginning what the stranger wants, but it is not until the end, that we find out why she has chosen this particular victim to torment.

The two directors, Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury, make David Cronenberg look restrained, and perhaps a little restraint would have been helpful. The final scenes, where the floors are awash in blood and corpses are strewn about place as if in a Jacobean tragedy, borders on slapstick comedy. Having started the film with extreme violence, the filmmakers leave themselves little option but to go further and further, until the situation becomes absurd.

Despite these flaws, Inside is a terrific thriller, and a refreshing antidote to the many bland US horror remakes that have infested the multiplexes lately.

The Dogs

Dogs I have photographed.