London Calling Parts Two & Three

Hey All,

Here's the conclusion of the 'London Calling' storyline. Kinda weird, but fun!




I remember thinking how the hell would you use a TV station and my favourite NZ rock band Shihad to shoot down an object from outer space. (The main reason being Chris is on Alt-TV and I wanted to incoporate this into the Sniffles n Cough mythos. :D)

Enjoy and see ya soon!
Rob.

Sniffles & Cough : London Calling Part1

I hope you all had a happy and safe 'Guy Fawkes'. Though I've often found myself wondering why we celebrate a guy who tried to blow up the english parliament. Still the people around us had some great fireworks and we were treated to several stunning displays.

Sniffles & Cough : "London Calling" came about as Chris the coffee guy, loves 'The Clash' and often has them blasting out the cobwebs of early morning as he's setting up the coffee cart for the morning's trade.

I warped it a bit and thought maybe we could get the Queen involved somehow, and an adventure was started!

Look for parts two and three soon!
Rob.

POP goes the Popgun Anthology!

Mark Andrew Smith (co-creator of the Amazing Joy Buzzards) along with Joe Keatinge have edited together a HUGE comic anthology which is coming out this November 21st.

It's called the PopGun Anthology and it's around 560 pages for about US$30 dollars. Make sure you preorder it on Amazon and you can save about 10 dollars:

http://www.amazon.com/Popgun-Erik-Larsen/dp/1582408246/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/103-2366076-7090246?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1193042875&sr=8-1

The tales are wild and varied and it is sure to be a smash hit with already being the highest ordered anthology book from Image comics!

Here are some PopGun press and previews as well:

http://comics.ign.com/articles/825/825932p1.html

http://www.comicbookresources.com/news/newsitem.cgi?id=11971

http://forum.newsarama.com/showthread.php?t=130072
http://forum.newsarama.com/showthread.php?t=130228
http://www.comicbookresources.com/ne...m.cgi?id=11982

So what are ya waiting for check it out and go geddit!!!
Cheers,
Rob

Sniffles & Cough in The Lost Episode

This is one that didn't make it into the InUnison magazine for whatever reason just around the time of St Patricks day. Pity it's was one of my favourites for the year. :D




Still to come:
more Sniffles & Cough
and a post-Armageddon report! (eventually! :D)

Yay for short working weeks!
Rob

Axl Inked

Well here he is, all inked up. Included him in the title bar for the last installment of the Axl Rose interview storyline in "Sniffles & Cough" which I'll put up soon in it's entirety.

The year for "Sniffles & Cough" is over so check back soon for lots of updates of all the years stuff including (if i haven't already posted it) the missing St Paddy's Day episode! :D

Hope you had a great Labour/Armageddon weekend!
Rob.

ARMAGEEDON is HERE!

And so is a new episode of Rally Mark!!

Here's a wee teaser to get you up on the storyline :D




See you at the Aotea Centre this weekend, pop by the Gotham Comics/DMC stand, pick up a copy of New Ground #8, a sketch and be sure to say "hi!"

Cheers,
Rob

GYAKUSHU!

Dan Hipp, co-creator of 'The Amazing Joy Buzzards' (with Mark Andrew Smith) has created and published through TokyoPop! part 1 of 3 issues of Gyakushu!

Which i believe in Japanese loosley means 'REVENGE!'

The book is an awesome romp through blood n' guts with a cunningly twisted storyline that will entertain you all the way through. I am looking forward to parts two and three, with Part two due sometime late this/early next year.

Here's a piece of fan art i created with the main character, his wife and their child.
Cheers,
Rob

Puffy the ITSC Slayer!

When one of the ladies here at work had asked me to cariacture her as 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer', it took me a little while to find the look I liked.

I actually find caricaturing fairly hard as I fell i often don't find the right features to exaggerate.

The semi-superdefromed chibi style look is something I seem to be able to pull off quite well so I went with that and quite a cute look. With some reference from the Dark Horse comics covers for the Buffy series I created the below images.















The recipient was stoked with the result too, so a win all round!
Enjoy,
Rob.

Next : More Sniffles & Cough!

Girls and they've got Slingshots!

A little while ago Danielle from www.girlswithslingshots.com was going on a trip and called for guest strips for her site while she was away.

It took me a little while but iI came up with the following strip and got Danielle's permission to use it for the InUnison cartoon for that month too, which incidentally happened to be the 'International' themed issue. So this worked in perfectly with Sniffles & Cough being in NZ and GWS being from the States!

Here ya go!
Rob.


P.S. Kiki, this one's for you!

Messerschmitt

Holy moley! I haven't posted all month eeek! Sorry about that!

To compensate here's one of my favourite 'Sniffle & Cough' strips. The Messerschmitt was really fun to draw and I especially like the third panel all 'in your face' with coffee beans!!




Enjoy!
Rob.

Kabuki

I have been a fan of David Mack's comic 'Kabuki' for quite a while now.

Though calling it a comic doesn't seem to fit, it's more of a 'reading experience' where the reader becomes entwined in the story by the way David interlaces words, images, to create a reading experience unlike anything I have read before.

So I urge you to check out his work especially Kabuki Vol5 : Metamorphosis, this is the book i really got hooked on.

Here's some fan art inspired by David Mack's 'Kabuki' characters:


Drawn by Thommy (see his blog in my links section) coloured by me.


Tigerlilly by me


Snapdragon by me

Signing off!
Rob.

Hail to a Monster of Rock

One of my favourite bands of the 90's is back in town touring this week (tho only with 1/5th of the original members).

And after watching the VH1 : Behind the Music : Guns N' Roses Special I just HAD to do a sketch of the enigmatic, wild, crazy and brilliant singer - W. Axl Rose!

Doin' his signature intro to 'Welcome to the Jungle' :



I'll tidy up the tattoo's a bit and ink then colour it sometime soon. :D
Cheers,
Rob.

Poetic send-off

The first Sniffles & Cough that InUnison printed was the last issue of last year. I came up with the idea of a lament adn was really quite happy about how it turned out.

I scripted the whole strip first (a novelty for me at the time as i usually just plow in and start drawing and worry about the end result later), and the flow & execution are something I'm quite proud of.







Till Next time!
Rob.

First Sniffle... and Cough

So here it starts. This strip was actually created BEFORE the coffee ad but is the one that kicked the whole idea off.

Chris (the coffee dude with the mohawk) loves Punk music and is always singing along with The Clash while making coffee's. So i adapted a little and ended up calling the strip 'Coffee Love'.

This is also the strip that got me the gig in the loacal student magazine InUnison. :)

Enjoy!

Where it all began : Sniffles & Cough

I created a faux ad for the WONDERFUL staff at my local Coffee cart 'Expresso Plus', really just for fun.

While showing the staff there one of my other creations I was then approached by the students doing the Unitec student magazine 'InUnison' about doing a regualr strip for their magazine.

I threw around a couple of ideas and approached them with a student based idea and one based on the strange happenings at the Coffee cart.

The Editor really liked the Coffee cart idea as they are quite identifiable on campus (and their blend of coffee is infamous) and so Sniffles & Cough were born!

I'll be post their strips from time to time including further ad's and things I dream up along the way.

Hope you're having a good week and check back soon for more on :
'Sniffles & Cough'
'Rally Mark'
and all things arty by HotRob. :D

Cheers,
Rob.

Armageddon Wellington!

Winding down from a good weekend isn't always easy, especially when you get a cool sketch from a VERY cool artist like Jimmy (Young Avengers) Cheung!!

I was only there on the Saturday but had a great time with Jeremy, Waiton, Jared, Tina, and the DMC/Gotham gang, selling our new book 'New Ground #7' doing sketches and meeting some fantastic fans!!

I was having such a good day that I didn't even take many photo's but i did manage to get a couple with/of Princess Leia and Darth Vader.








Managed to do a few sketches and happliy sold my Hellboy one before realising I'd not taken a picture of it. Here's two I did near the end of the day. J. Scott Campbell's "Dangerl Girl" and Neil Gaiman's "Death".I'd like to do a shout-out to Kim and her bro, the dude from the American Embassy in Welly (sorry man i forgot your name) and the guy from the Canberra comic shop! Very cool to meet you all!!

Cheers,
Rob

Mini Racer

Welcome to my first post of the year. I created this little gem for my friend Grant's birthday seeing as he loves Mini's it was the perfect choice!

Enjoy
R.