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

Ireland Lomo Photos

Houses at Kinsale.


Cork Reflection.


Dublin Graffiti

Super Sam and John of the Night

As seen in my Forbidden Planet comic strip.
All episodes can be seen here.

Photos of a Northern Town

Three recent photos of my home town.


Chapel Street.


Habeeb's Newsagent.


West Lane Autos.


Morning Sky.


Multi-Storey Car Park.


Black Hill Corner.

Comic Strip Thoughts

Here's the very latest Super-Sam and John-of-the-Night cartoon strip. I'm more pleased with the artwork on this one than any I've done to date.

My thinking lately with this strip, is to make it a little more story-orientated. I'm not going to forget that Super-Sam is basically a gag strip, but I want over the long run, to add levels of narrative and many more characters.

I've also been inspired by Dick Tracy. I always loved the fact that the villains in Chester Gould's newspaper strip were so freakish (Flattop, Pruneface). I'm going to amp up the surreal quotient in the stories, aiming for a much more bizarre, and even dreamlike quality.

One of the most wonderful things about being able to draw a comic strip, is that you have the chance to build your own world from scratch. The only limits are the limits of your own imagination. It's the cinema of the printed page. Not only that, but the sets are really, really cheap.

The previous nine pages can be seen here.

Paper Town

Cardboard cut-out town lit with a desk lamp.

Two Handmade Models

Pinny Pinhead. Made from cardboard, modelling clay, ball bearings and pins.



Jack Flash. Handmade out of wood, plastic, paper and modelling clay.

Christmas Card Designs

Five card designs. I do my own every year. It's always a chore to think up another Christmas design, as nearly everything you can think of has been done a million times already. I try to avoid penguins wearing scarfs.