Scotcon 2008

By now the annual TMUK Scottish meetup entitled Scotcon should be underway. No doubt there will be many drinks consumed, many tears shed during the evil Quiz of Doom prepared by the Quizfuhrer- Nick Davidson.

Sadly events conspired against us to prevent a new Scotcon comic but a convention freebie has been prepared as always. We've cobbled together a two disc dvd set featuring the best of Sunbow Transformers or as we've entitled it - THE LEAST WORST OF SUNBOW.

Here is the art and hopefully I'll be updating my Twitter stream as the day goes on.



Eagle eyed readers will know that the art is a homage to the cover for The Trans Formers (Issue 12 if you are american, or Issue 39 for the British) by Herb Trimpe. It is hands down my favourite Trans Formers cover and one of my all-time favourite comic covers.

TMUK PRIMER

TMUK - or Transmasters UK has been going on for well over fifteen years now and as such the continuity of it has become a little daunting for new members. So an idea I discussed a few years ago has been resurrected. I'm asssembling a primer comic book going over the major beats of the Marvel era comics and of course the TMUK stories that are linked and extended from it.

I've enlisted TMUK Hall of Famer Martin McVay to do all the heavy lifting with the dialogue and text narration once it's all finished. As I write I am almost three pages in (looking like it may be a sixteen or so page comic when all is said and done).

Below is the first page:

In Communion Colours

And now with shiny colours, and instead of going all modern I've tried to make it look like an older comic book with the techniques used.

As you can see I have enlisted my good friend and frequent collaborator Ralph Burns to help me with the writing.

In Communion Page 1

A page done today for something in the new year. Transformers fans will recognise the two characters as Primus and Unicron (as they were before they became entombed in metallic asteroids)they are rendered by me in a Jack Kirby like fashion. After all if you are drawing gods it's either him or Simonson really!

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The Daily Longtooth - an explanation

Who is Rolph Baines you ask?

That is the drunken misstyped version of my good friend Ralph Burns, who is pretty much responsible for The Daily Longtooth. You see - he hates Longtooth with an abiding passion. As such when he wanted to name a month on The Hub Forum after a Transformer (he wanted Shockwave) many tried to get it named Longtooth. To sway votes I said I would do a daily Longtooth drawing for the entire month. It ended in a tie but we decided Longtooth won anyway and I for my sins have honoured my part in the affair by doing a daily Longtooth.

Ten more days left - how will it end? I have a vague idea right now so we'll just see.

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