Karl

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• Comic Submissions-Part V

  

  Were Almost Done!So this is week five---the penultimate post in a six part journey through the writing and drawing of a comic submission to the big five US... Read more

  Posted on 29 April 2016 ART & DESIGN, COMIC BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE

• Cartoonist & Writers Diary---II

  

  Well it's been a few weeks since I visited my odd little life and a few things have happened to me. I've single handedly blocked the toilet, caused an... Read more

  Posted on 27 April 2016 ART & DESIGN, COMIC BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE

• Comic Submissions---Part IV

  

  Some times the old ones are the best!Not that I'm saying these gags are old, au-contraire, what I mean is that sometimes I write a gag for something else and... Read more

  Posted on 22 April 2016 ART & DESIGN, COMIC BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE

• Rugby Print and Disillusionment

  

  Last Friday I said that today I would be publishing a post about a new Rugby print I was working on. I also intimated somewhere on the vast and unkempt world... Read more

  Posted on 20 April 2016 ART & DESIGN, COMIC BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE

• Comic Strip Submission- Part III

  

  Well we surely are moving on a pace as we crash into week three of my new comic strip, Tales from Toonsville, and how I go about creating a comic submission... Read more

  Posted on 15 April 2016 ART & DESIGN, COMIC BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE

• How to Draw a Cartoon Lion---Part II the Body

  

  Here we are again, part II of my latest project. A book on how to draw cartoons; although the working title is sounding more like. 'How would you like to draw... Read more

  Posted on 13 April 2016 ART & DESIGN, COMIC BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE

• New Comic Strip Submission Part II

  

  Well here we are already, week two completed and another six strips pencilled, inked and lettered.This week I thought I'd concentrate more on one of the semi... Read more

  Posted on 08 April 2016 ART & DESIGN, COMIC BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE

• How to Draw a Cartoon Lion---Part 1 the Head

  

  Having checked on my Google statistics I see, that by a long way, you love it when I teach you stuff.That's not to say you don't like the other things I do, lik... Read more

  Posted on 06 April 2016 ART & DESIGN, COMIC BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE

• New Comic Strip Submission

  

  Okay, so this blog is alllllllll about my life as a cartoonist, right? Right.So in the spirit of that mission statement, I'm going to take you through my... Read more

  Posted on 01 April 2016 ART & DESIGN, COMIC BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE

• Horsin Around---Pencil Portrait of Twyw

  

  I've always considered myself to be somewhat of a silly person with no visible means of common sense.And when you have no common sense, or aren't able to do... Read more

  Posted on 30 March 2016 ART & DESIGN, COMIC BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE

• First Off, and Before We Launch into the Odd Realm That i...

  

  First off, and before we launch into the odd realm that is my mind, let us take a moment to reflect upon the glory of our new post heading, which I have produce... Read more

  Posted on 28 March 2016 ART & DESIGN, COMIC BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE

• Old Wives' Tales---Trouble up North

  

  So maybe I've been a little sneaky!...and maybe, just maybe, I've been keeping stuff from you...Well there's a very good reason for this: A large portion of my... Read more

  Posted on 25 March 2016 ART & DESIGN, COMIC BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE

• New Work-Dandy Annual 2017

  

  Looks like this year I came back into the comics world with a crash, a bang and one of those stunt-man type rolls.Not only did I get a very nice order from DC... Read more

  Posted on 23 March 2016 ART & DESIGN, COMIC BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE

• Last Christmas

  

  Well Christmas has been and gone and I've had fun, but I've also not been well.But by way of making some kind of amends for all the lack of posting (due, as... Read more

  Posted on 13 January 2016 ART & DESIGN, COMIC BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE

• Comrade Sooty

  

  Before reading this tale I feel a few points need to be made. First off, this actually happened a few years ago while I was night portering in a hotel near wher... Read more

  Posted on 16 September 2015 ART & DESIGN, COMIC BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE

• Laugh Lines 4

  

  Laugh Lines is available for syndication. If you are an editor, looking for an across the board comic feature, then please contact me via my 'contact me' page t... Read more

  Posted on 14 September 2015 ART & DESIGN, COMIC BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE

• Rugby Prints for Sale

  

  (A section of my latest watercolour painting 'Injury Time')Something I've been producing in the background, and extra to the Laugh Lines, Castle Comics, the... Read more

  Posted on 09 September 2015 ART & DESIGN, COMIC BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE

• Laugh Lines 3

  

  Here's Mondays instalment of 'Laugh Lines' on Tuesday, just to show I'n not a conformist kinda guy!Either that or I got my calendar wires crossed again...which... Read more

  Posted on 08 September 2015 ART & DESIGN, COMIC BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE

• Castle Comics Page 7

  

  Sorry for the delay. Not my fault this time. The internet was down all day and has just come back on at 2am and here I am posting it for you. How's that for... Read more

  Posted on 05 September 2015 ART & DESIGN, COMIC BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE

• Laugh Lines 2

  

  Laugh Lines is available for syndication. If you are an editor, looking for an across the board comic feature, then please contact me via my 'contact me' page t... Read more

  Posted on 31 August 2015 ART & DESIGN, COMIC BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE