"HE'S LIKE THE YODA OF COMICS" - my friend Liz
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So, happy new year! I’ve been a busy little bastard in Irving Towers over the holiday period, drawing, sleeping, thinking, drumming, it’s all been good. I’ve been working very hard on a couple of different projects, all lined up for a massive Irving-tastic 2013, tho besides the slow-moving-but-still-moving-nonetheless Gutsville (which some of you have enquired about, yes it’s still being drawn albeit slower than I would like because it’s a very labour-intensive gig and that’s all my fault) I cannot talk of any of these projects because that’s for the publishers to decide.
Well, I can talk about one of them as of today. See the image above? Yes, I’m drawing some X-Men, and this link will explain a little more.
It’s going to be a VERY busy spring here in Irvingville, no parties, no hiking, no orgies (except by myself), no conventions (except a day out at LSCC next month) and I may even have to cancel sleep! Still, these gigs only come along once so best I take ‘em whilst they’re hot, eh?
“Myaah.”
The Joker by Frazer Irving.
The book this is the cover for is published on the 14th of March I think. It’s a repackaged volume of Alan Moore DC Universe stories, and includes the Killing Joke. It’s nice to be able to post some of this stuff after it has simmered in my Hard Drive for so long…
BRB, flogging off my old copy on eBay.
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About 5 years ago I drew my first completely digital job for a major American publisher (Marvel Comics), ditching the traditional methods that I had employed ever since I could lift a pencil. It was a bold move for me, as I was unsure if the editor would accept art which was significantly different from my previous efforts, but probably due to time constraints they just greenlit the pages and off I went. This double page spread is a climactic battle scene from near the end of the story. The Inhumans are locking horns with a bunch of humans who have been mutated by the Terrigen Mists (the same magical mists that gave the Inhumans their amazing abilities) on the Moon, near their hometown. Yes, I said the Moon. They live on the Moon. Look, if that sounds ridiculous, I’d suggest reading Telephone Directories or some other material, like printer manuals. Personally I think living on the Moon is a cool idea, and I had fun drawing it.
Today’s offering is a drawing I did for a charity auction in 2004, at the Bristol Comic Festival. We each picked characters out of a list (to avoid repetition) and these images were then made into a deck of cards which were auctioned off for charidy, mate. It’s quite different to the way I work nowadays, tho I do feel it sort of hovers at the point where I decided to throw my lot in with the pixels, turning my back on the traditional methods of the previous 32 years.
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Dredd vs. Aliens by Frazer Irving
Judge Death by Frazer Irving
When I posted that Transformers cover that riffed on Bolland’s infamous ‘Joker holding camera’ pose (as per The Killing Joke), something nagged at me; hadn’t there been an earlier homage?
Then I saw this, and I remembered. (This was a subscribers-only exclusive cover for the long-running Judge Dredd Megazine.)
