Christmas Fundraising!

Hi everyone, I'm trying to raise some money over Christmas for the charity I work for, READ International. If you'd like to own one of my 50 handmade and hand-printed Gocco Christmas cards - please donate to my justgiving page, message me your address and I'll send one to you! Thanks!

Les Bande-dessines

Some sporadic posting I'm afraid! I'm just going to post a couple of nice discoveries for now....I know summer seems forever ago, but I went to France for a couple of weeks (lovely thanks for asking). Whenever I visit France I am always impressed by their comics scene and varied styles. I stumbled across a great publisher called manolo sanctis, which prints mini comics from new talent (or as far as I can tell, it's all in french!). I bought a really beautiful comic called "Princesse Suplexe" about a girl wrestler! Even though I can't properly read it, I can make out what is going on, the joy of comics! I wish we had more independent comics publishers in the UK. Whenever I go into my local/not so local comic shops, there are never enough (or no) homemade zines and not enough homegrown talent showcased!

THE BOOK EFFECT

So in case you didn't know I have just started working for READ International. WATCH THE VIDEO!

Scribbles before bedtime

Have also been doodling before bed this week....I don't know what people with stuff coming out of their heads means, maybe it means I am stressed or something.

Cut it out!

Ages ago I made these cut-out-pop-up cities for a book based on Italo Calvino's "Invisible Cities" for my art foundation, I was thinking about making some more, probably much smaller though! Maybe make some little foldout books. I'm experimenting a lot at the moment with lino printing and different ways of using print. Anyway, I feel a bit unimaginative at the moment so I thought I'd blog a bit before doing a bit of scribbling. Its hard to switch mindset when I have so many other jobs to do!

New goccos!

GOCCO

So after several hiccups and mishaps, I have FINALLY managed to make my first successful gocco print! It has been a bit of a time consuming activity (also because I foolishly decided to make my own screens) but it paid off in that first moment when I made the first print and it looked beautiful! So happy....I'll put up some photos later.
Squeee!