The late Jack Kirby is an artist and writer who  has been associated with some of the best comics in the superhero genre, primarily with Marvel.
He was a loyal, and more importantly prolific, lieutenant to Marvel’s editor Stan Lee. Sometimes his artistic quality slipped when he was simply drawing too many comics, but he was always [...]

As if in answer to my last post about Blogs, I have just sold my first painting to a bloke in Los Angeles.
One slight problem is that I no longer have it! Mandy Allen has it in her Art Gallery. I didn’t realise Internet Marketing could be so powerful, and just assumed that [...]

Having enrolled on John Thornhill’s Masterclass course, one of the first instructions was to write a blog, with regular and frequent posts. I realised quite soon that if I had to write regularly, then it had better be about something I’m interested in.
I wrote a list of categories of subjects I’m interested in: Beer, Comics, [...]

Finally, 40 years after first having the idea, I have completed a painting of John Lennon based on the psychedelic poster issued in 1967.
It’s only thanks to Google Images that I have been able to fulfil this ambition, as  the posters sold out on the day of issue, and I didn’t have anything for reference.  However I was able to download [...]

The Beatles evolved and changed with every album they issued. I prefer the second half of their career starting from the Revolver album. However there are some lovely tracks on Help, despite the heavy workload that the Beatles were operating under. Help was issued on 8th June 1965, and was both the soundtrack to the film [...]

My first completed painting is an opening scene from the film Clockwork Orange by Stanley Kubrick. Alex and his ‘Droogs’ are out looking for trouble, and unfortunately find a tramp sleeping in the subway. I won’t describe what happens next, but those of you who have seen the film know. 
I’ve always thought this to be a powerful image, [...]

The Silver Surfer had religious overtones when it was first published. The alien Norrin Radd had offered himself as a sacrifice to save his planet Zenn-La from Galactus – ‘the devourer of worlds’.
Galactus needed to consume living planets in order to survive.  However he transformed Norrin Radd into the Silver Surfer to become his herald, finding suitable alternative planets throughout the [...]

1967 was the ’summer of love’, the Beatles had released Sgt. Pepper and had a number one hit that encapsulated the spirit of the times, with “all you need is love”.
I was a 13 year old teenager completely immersed in the music and psychedelia of the time, so when I heard that the Beatles were [...]

Clockwork Orange is a notoriously violent film, that was withdrawn for public showing by the Director Stanley Kubrick.
The film could actually still be seen by adults all over the world – apart from England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
The ban only applied to the UK, as Kubrick considered our society to be too inherently violent for any art-form that [...]

I have sold the majority of my childhood comic collection, but have regained pleasure from comics by painting some of my favorite covers.
I used to draw and paint entirely by eye, which involved a lot of rubbing out. However I don’t see the point of this now, when I can easily trace the image I [...]