The saucy Lexxie Couper charged me with coming up with a design for one of her characters recently and this is what I came up with.

I’m stoked to be able to announce the official launch date of RiverSide at the brand new Viper Comics webcomics site – March 15th.

I’m positively giddy. It’s all very exciting right now.

This was basically an attempt to do a little colour practice – and work on my colouring short-comings.

Artwork: Stewart McKenny
Colour: Me

I’ve been browsing a lot of webcomics lately and there’s been a few stand out ones that I’ve come across and wanted to share

- My Sister The Freak by Dani Jones (it doesn’t start until March but geez, it’s going to be nice)
- Cleopatra In Spaaace! – By Mike Maihack (all of Mike’s work is stunning, do yourself a favour and look around his site)
- Red’s Planet – by Eddie Pittman (again, just gorgeous work Eddie is an incredible draftsman)

The other thing getting everyone all abuzz is the iPad – personally I’m pro iPad, I think it’s going to do gangbusters. Is it a ‘game changer’? Sure it is, look at it – it’s an appliance you’ll end up owning. Don’t bullshit around with me and tell you ‘don’t want one because my laptop can do this’ you’ll f**king buy one. You know you will! 40 million+ people didn’t know they needed an iPhone but they own one now. I think Erik Larsen looks at this really well from a comics POV, and personally I think this is going to really kick start how we read everything, from books to newspaper. And no, it doesn’t support flash

Here’s a good iPad article, really anything you grab from Daring Fireball is quality though.

With only One day left in the month I feel like it’s okay to make this monthly wrap up without consequence – having said that I’ll likely have a stroke tomorrow and void this ‘awesome month’ post.

If I do have a stroke – I will outline a round robin style death match style tournament where the winner/last survivor receives my Cintiq. Prepare to wager your quatros gentlemen(and ladies)

Now, down the pointy end. January has been good to me, I feel like I really wrestled it to the ground and choked the life out of it, compared to the last 6-8 months literally any GOOD thing would have been better than the run I’d been having but a string of little victories have propelled the first month of 2010 “full of win”

- My Artsprojekt/TKL guitar case was showcased amongst some staggeringly talented artists earlier in the month
- More feature work for Men Fitness mag
- First 10 sheets of tattoo flash will be going on sale anytime from…now, thusly starting me on my newest ongoing endeavor

And, I got the all clear to mention this:

- RiverSide will be migrating over to Viper Comics as part of their new webcomics line up which will be starting up next month. That’s kind of a big deal for me, and something I’d wanted to do for a long time but I think now my work is, I guess ‘good enough’ to merit it. Obviously there will be more to say as the switch is flipped and RiverSide fully migrates over to their site but for now I just HAD to mention it. And maybe, just maybe give myself a pat on the back.