Back of the Oven! Part5
The story of getting a children’s TV show commissioned and how perseverance and integrity can pay off.
Exhibition
Starting on the 5th May I will be having a small exhibition as part of Oxfordshire Artweeks. Some rarely seen pages of comic book art will be on the walls at The Fibreworks in their upstairs workshop. It's not often that I get the chance to frame and show some pages...
CATCH THOSE HENS!
Clips from Shane the Chef are now up on YouTube on the Shane the Chef Channel. A chance to see some beautiful little sequences from Cloth Cat Animation. Apart from all the fun of catching chickens in the clip here, take a look at some of the amazing model, texture and...
Back of the Oven! Part4
The whole experience of getting ‘Shane the Chef’ to screen has been full of ups and downs. But as with many projects it is the people you meet that really make the difference. Circumstances get in the way but people are the ones that make things happen. Sometimes when you least expect it.
Back of the oven! Part3
Sometimes, a little bit of ignorance can go a long way. In spite of our best efforts we hit many walls while pitching our TV show. We made progress but many opportunities seemed to line themselves up. It seemed like Shane was determined to be a celebrity chef. Maybe someone was watching over us 🙂
Back of the oven! part2
In the last post I gave you a little bit of a background as to how the new kids TV show, Shane the Chef came into existence. Those very first moments that resulted in this show appearing 13 years later. I mentioned that there were a couple of people in those early...
Back of the oven!
It has been (all told) thirteen years in the making but finally it has hit the screens. On Easter Monday, Channel5 the new animated kids show, Shane the Chef hit the screens. After all this time and now that it is out there I thought I would write a few posts about...
DOUBLE GAMBIT
I had a request in some time ago for any pages of X-MEN that I had left that feature Gambit. Finally found time to rummage around in the WildVault and this one popped up. Today it is on its way to a new home 🙂 I did a lot of issues of this book over about a year and...
Rules?!
Should be a good read. A gift from my studio landlady at The Fibreworks
BAFTA winner
Me? I wish. But a HUGE congratulations to Daniel Kaluuya for winning the best actor BAFTA for his performance in GET OUT. A few years ago we all witnessed his amazing potential as he played the character, Mac in the BBC3 horror series, THE FADES. If you never saw that...