This Is What I've Been Working On For The Last Few Weeks, I'm So Excited It's Finally Ready! We'll Have

This is what I've been working on for the last few weeks, I'm so excited it's finally ready! We'll have this at the Birmingham Zine Festival tomorrow along with a new issue of What's the Time Mrs Woolf?

https://www.etsy.com/listing/111949011/this-is-not-a-serious-music-publication

A music zine by Sammy Borras and Sarah Fogg

Articles, illustrations and comics featuring Blur, The Kinks, Everything Everything, Peace, Gorillaz, De La Soul, Little Dragon, Helen Arney, Bellatrix, Gil Scott-Heron, Ghostpoet, DANGER DOOM, The Subways, The Clash, Elastica, Phillipa Hannah, The Unthanks and Young Knives “About I know it seems silly to be printing a music zine at a time when music blogs are becoming a popular alternative. You can listen to the music at the same time as reading the articles and news updates are instant. I considered making my own because I have so many things I’d love to say about the music but I would never have the time to keep up with the pace of other music blogs. Sarah and I had been joking that we could fill a Blur fanzine without even making any new content. After a while I’ve not been able to resist the idea any longer and making it with a friend made it a lot more enjoyable and gave the project a better purpose. Because we both love illustrating and creating comics the end result has turned into a collection of music themed comics, gig sketches and a couple of small illustrated music articles. I hope you enjoy reading it just as much as we enjoyed making it!” A5 32 Interior Pages Black and White

The zine will also be available at these events -

Birmingham Zine Festival - 13th October 2012

London MCM Expo - 26th - 28th October 2012

Thought Bubble - 17th - 18th November 2012

Excited! They picked a good voice actor for Marshall Lee.

Although, something confuses me about Fionna's relationship with Prince Gumball and Marshall Lee; is Fionna supposed to be older than Finn? 

Probably the biggest way they handled the Finn/Princess Bubblegum relationship was to make is necessarily one-sided because Finn is 12 and Pbeebs is 18. But in the gender-bent episodes both boys are treated as semi-viable romantic prospects. Should I infer that Fionna is more like 15 or 16? Help, it confuses me!

A sneak peak for next gender bent episode of Adventure Time, entitled “Bad Little Boy”!

Until I'm done with a few projects, have some more thank you letters! I seemed to have so much more success getting them sent on time when I drew pictures on them that I decided to keep doing that.

They did turn out thematically more boring than the birthday ones though, on account of my spending all the money I got on the same thing. Oh well, it was expensive!

My thoughts exactly.

P.S. Why 'Anna'? Gerda is hardly a weirder name than Belle or Ariel. 

Sketchavember 2012 - Part 1!

I missed doing Inktober because I was super-busy, so I decided to try to ink all my Sketchavember pictures instead. Last year I tried to draw all my characters, in age order, so I picked up where I left off. Then sort of wombled off topic. Anyway these are:

1 - Blackthorn, an elf in the Tolkein mold. I never did much with her but I quite like her design.

2 - Louise! She's got her own tag if you want more pictures of her. She lives in a pre-industrial time and has many encounters with fairies.

3 - Louise again. I was reading Hemlock and tried to draw her in the same style.

4 - And again! I'm not sure what happened to your face here Louise but I promise I'll never do it again! Louise is one of my characters in an arranged marriage, but she and Edward get on quite well. He doesn't believe in magic before they marry, and is much more uncomfortable with magic and the supernatural than she is.

5 - Franz, who doesn't appear very often on account of being hard to draw. He's very proud and hates showing any kind of weakness. He probably checked nobody was watching before blowing on his hands like that.

6 - Jemima, who appears more often on account of being fun to dress up.  She has very low self-esteem and is bullied by her 'friends'.

7 - And then it was Friday so I drew Marceline the Vampire Queen!

8 - Lucas didn't come out great last year, so I tried again. This is much more on-model, although I still haven't worked out where his scars go.

9 - This is Lucas's sister, Lena, who has the gift of prophecy.

10 - At this point I'd started watching Gundam Wing, and had to try very hard not to just draw fanart for every subsequent picture. I could not resist drawing everyone's favourite pilot though.

Part 2 next week!

(Yeah yeah I know Sketchavember was months ago, but my scanner is old and senile and it took me a long time to get these onto my laptop.)

These are four more art cards I whipped up for the farmer's market. If you got the Eat Me! anthology, you may recognise these as the leaders of the various Broth Sea tribes in my comic, The Mysterious Land of Under-Noodle. Going clockwise, these are the Wise Woman of the Noodle People, the Prime Minister of the Wonton Isles, the mightiest warrior from the Cliffs of Pork, and the Chieftain of the Lettuce Hunters.

You can tell they're the leaders because they wear the most clothes, haha.