#NotMyPresident!

In the light of the Socio-Political disaster that we are all currently "enjoying" I cannot stand idly by without comment. So here it is...the rough pencil/tone version of my response to Brexit/Trumpville. Finished version to follow...and may God have mercy on our souls!!

Excelsior out!!

FANTV...The Lunatics have taken over the asylum!!

My caricature tribute to the guys and gals of FanTV! Tom and I were on Toby Tarrant's show on October 21st...and throughly enjoyed it! We'll be on again this Friday (November 11th) talking about Newcastle United and England!

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Excelsior out!!

VISIONARIES: Sometimes a strange notion...

Above is the pencil rough for, the first piece, in a project I'm calling "Visonaries". With it I intend to caricature my favourite directors, and their work. 

I'm starting with the great Guillermo Del Toro; in the image he is cradling his latest, multi tentacled, creation which is, in turn, reaching out to others of Guillermo's cannon.

Excelsior Out!!

Jason and the ARGUENAUTS

Suggested by a photoshop meme by the devoted Wittertainer @Witterpedia_net, the above piece is a mash up of three of my favourite things: Wittertainment (naturally), Jason Isaacs (hello, of course) and the late, great, Mr Ray Harryhausen.
Hope all concerned get a giggle out of it and thanks to @Witterpedia_net for a kick ass idea.

Excelsior Out!!

The Doctor is IN!!

In preparation for the release of Marvel's "Dr Strange" movie I have completed my caricature tribute. I cannot adequately express how excited I am by this movie, as the good doctor was always one of my favourites growing up. Steve Ditko's mind boggling visuals and Stan Lee's cod Shakespearean epithets really blew my impressionable mind. This creative comic powerhouse gives Scott Derrickson and co a mountain to climb in order to do the character justice. However everything I've seen to do with this movie has soothed my troubled nerves…it looks AWESOME!!!!
I urge one and all to dash out and see it when it materialises on October 28th.

Excelsior Out!! 

By The Hoary Host of Hoggoth!!

Sharing my pencil rough for my Dr Strange tribute (colour version to follow soon). It's a piece very much in the vein of my caricature hero Mort Drucker…intended to invoke a "Mad Magazine" vibe. Hope it hit's the spot.
The movie's director, Scott Derrickson, is goodly enough to follow me on Twitter so I'm hoping to impress him enough to snag a couple of tickets to the London premiere. Can't blame a guy for trying, right?

Excelsior Out!!

BAAADDDAAASSS!!

Ron Perlman is a man whose ass is BAD!!! Let's get that out of the way before we start...but he is also a gifted, fearless and powerful character actor...with REAL character. He has played a dizzying variety of roles since he ambled on our movie screens, in 1981, in the prehistoric fable "Quest for Fire". Ron's sublime, unselfconscious, captivating performance; in that movie, announced a precocious talent...destined for greatness. Since then he's been behind some of the most nuanced prosthetic performances in movie history (Amoukar,Vincent, Hellboy), emotionally muscular action men (Johner,Rienhardt) and more exotic fare such as transgender computer hacker Phil in "3,2,1...Frankie Go Boom". 
My unabashed admiration for Ron has lead me to try and capture him in an illustration. Above is a caricature portrait that seeks to show something specific about him. I've tried to catch a particular vulnerability behind his flinty, badass exterior. 
It's well documented that the Hellboy movies were designed to be a trilogy, thus far we've had "Hellboy" & "Hellboy2: The Golden Army". Both Ron & director Guillermo Del Toro want to complete it but, due to an inexplicably limp box office return on the first two, it looks like that trilogy may never come to fruition. I know that this situation is a source of frustration for both men...but Ron in particular suffers the injustice of it.
I have therefore shown him flipping Hollywood the Hellboy bird but, behind his eyes, I wanted to show some of that hurt...I think I have managed that but I'll leave it to the wider audience to decide.
For my own part I hope against hope that someone, anyone, will float Guillermo and Ron the necessary dollars to complete the story...a story of one of the most unique creations in comic book history. Whomsoever has the balls to do that will be judged by history as a person of wisdom and character. In the meantime all we can do is keep the faith and stand strong for the Red Right Hand of Doom!!

Excelsior Out!!