Cartoon and Comic Arts: Lex Harford

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Monday, 23 June 2014

John Charles Re imagined Captain Staffs

John Charles from MarvelUK, 2000AD and colourist for the Star Wars Comic, decided to redraw the Captain Staffs Character making him a little more gritty and menacing... I little like myself!

Many thanks John.

Here John is with Jack Baker and Lex Harford

and the new Captain Staffs drawing.

Wednesday, 18 June 2014

London MCM
3rd Year Cartoon & Comic Art students take the show by Storm!

While the 2nd years were doing an organised trip to London Comic Con, the 3rd Years had other things on their mind. They were there to make money and see if they could sell their work which they produced in the last 2 semesters.

Verity Hall & Esme Baran teamed up as they had worked on a selection of Family friendly Grimm Fairy tales.

Esme also produced her own fantasy story Called "Undine Adventurer" which has gain a bit of interest in America and they are currently looking at producing a figurine of her character.

Verity's main book is "Like A Shark In A Swimming Pool." a tale of a young girl coming to terms with her sexuality. A brilliant read, if you get the opportunity, The comics are available at a string of Comic Shops up and down the country.

Millie Harrop teamed up with Illustration and Graphics student Emily Peacock to sell her Scrott Comic.

This is truly one of the few pieces of student work that has made me laugh out loud.
Also alongside Millie is Emily Peacock, illustrator and Comic Artist herself.

I also think she performed one of the best pieces of advertising for a comic going. Let be honest if you saw this (Above), you would just want to pick the comic up and read it!!

Jack Baker was back selling his next episode of the Guild of Winter series. He was sharing with Tom Stephens.

This was Lex's first convention and she produced some of her digital prints for sale at the convention as well as her own individual artwork.

Alice Urbino and Claire Smith took the art of convention selling to a whole new level when they dressed in their Cosplay as Daria & Jane!

Claire had a good run on her comic "I work with Cats" based on her web series. Alice had to chapters of her comic "Dimension" which tells a story of a bloke who while relaxing slips down the drain in his bath and ends up in another "Dimension"

Look familiar anyone?

Monday, 7 April 2014

After a long wait, 20,000 Years Under the Sea has finally been published. Featuring work from Henrietta Looms, Alice Urbino, Lex Harford and Cheshire Morey.
The story is loosely based on Jules Vernes classic book, but features a world where mankind has been chased by Elves and Dwarfs from the land for polluting it. This is the story of their return and how they seek retribution for their past mistakes.

Friday, 31 May 2013

Hectic Times for Cartoon & Comic Arts

I cant believe its been so long since I've posted anything on line with the blog. Many apologise but you'll be getting a few updates in the coming months about why and also what we've been doing.... and what we are going do!

The first thing to report that we've got a new member of staff starting in September. After advertising it for a week we were quite literally inundated with applications. I had the very hard job to whittle the 19 applicants down to a few to interview. The job caused interest in other areas of the media as well. I received a phone call from the Birmingham Post to ask about the job and said it was one of the most unusual ones they had seen.

Another job we had involved turning around work for "The Big Issue" in less than 24 hours for a Dustin Hoffman illustration to accompany the interview. Lex Harford's image won in the end But there were some very good ones produced.

Alice Urbino