Excuse me while I eat a cheeky Asda porkpie as I write this Substack entry. I’m back in the U.K. for a short while doing the regular health and wellness check on my dad (it’s a whole thing; don’t ask). Anyhow, things are kicking off in a lovely fashion with a few bits and bobs that are worth an update[1] and I’m not talking about the recently passed coronation that I tried hard to ignore.
NOW ON KICKSTARTER: THE DIRTY BASEMENT issue 2 … Those naughty, naughty boys from Tribute Press are back with a second edition of The Dirty Basement, Kickstarting now. The first was a cavalcade of, well, filth, that punches you in the face like a Carry On movie high on PCP.
Part of the incredible wraparound cover designed and drawn by Adam Falp.
Not to be self-serving, but I have a couple of reputation-ruining pages in issue 2 that I really enjoyed drawing. My mind, as you may surmise, is a rotten place.
Anyhow, The Dirty Basement is the kind of comic your mum and the Comics Code Authority warned you about, and it will morally compromise you once you read it.
My rendition of Cockbiter, a creation of Tony Esmond and Adam Falp, from the first edition of The Dirty Basement. (I did appear in issue 1 as a de facto host to some of the stories.)
ANOTHER REPUTATION-DESTROYING APPEARANCE ON THE AWESOME COMICS PODCAST … Speaking of Mr. Esmond and grinding my already tarnished brand into the scorched earth of demented remnants, yet having the best time doing it, I was a guest of my good friends and comics family Esmond, Vince Hunt and Dan Butcher on episode 410 of the Awesome Comics Podcast. Ostensibly, I was there to talk about dystopian genre comics, and we do eventually get to that despite going way off the rails in the first 20 minutes.
WHAT THE HELL HAVE YOU BEEN DOING WITH YOUR TIME? … Fair point, fair point. In between pages of Tony Osmond is a Movie Star issue 2 and filth for Tribute, I’ve done a little noodling here and there. Here’s some recent stuff.
It’s hard to be Sisyphus. My original conception for this strip was to present each panel in a circular layout, making it neverending.
Probably blasphemy, I guess?
And with that, I’ll just say thank you and hurry out of your inbox.
Cliff
[1] Look, yes, I know I’ve been pretty quiet, but I’ve had my head down working. Such is the life of a comic artist — plunged into obscurity for months, then a flurry of brief and hectic activity, and wash and repeat.