El Magnifico Chivo's Art Blog (n Stuff)

Kick-Ass!!

2012-03-10T13:08:00.003-08:00

Yo! Just finished my episode of 'Mammoth Jack' for Dirk Van Dom's 'Vanguard' comic anthology. Featured here is Duncan, an eye-patch-wearing psychotic donkey (don't ask me) who's getting a little miffed about something or other. To find out more get yourselves a copy of issue 2 when it comes out, u can pick up the first issue here,with art by the very talented Owen Watts.

Cheers

Chi

2012-01-27T12:22:00.000-08:00

Yo! Finally finished all 3 chapters of Jikan: Shimasu (written by Mark 'Shark' Howard) and to appear in the pages of Paragon sometime in the future, here's a little taster/flashback panel

Cheers

Chi

2011-11-02T13:48:00.001-07:00

Hello peeps! Here is a couple of magazines i have contributed to. The first is Hallowscream 3, a totally free online horror anthology with 112 pages of Halloween spookiness including 'Dead-Time Story' with art by me from a script by Scott Hartman.
The second is Something Wicked, a ..er..wicked horror anthology from the people who bring you the excellent 2000ad fanzines Zarjaz & Dogbreath aswell as sci fi anthology Futurequake. My strip in this is called 'Voices' & is scripted by Scott Schmidtt (all the Scotts it seems).
Anyway please follow the links & avail yourself of these lovely publications as they are chock full of quality frights aswell as my own meagre contributions.

Cheers

Chi

2011-10-22T09:16:00.000-07:00

Here's a review of Van Dom's comic Vanguard at Comics Bulletin
and for everyone's information, i'm all man, dammit!

Cheers

Chi

Kong!!

2011-10-08T13:57:00.000-07:00

Yo! Here's a pic of Kong in a strop, bless his fuzzy head.

Cheers

Chi

2011-09-21T14:43:00.000-07:00

Que Pasa?
Finally finished it, Matthew McLaughlin's Wild West Zombie Tale 'El Bigote; A Tequila-Drenched Reckoning' is completed sans lettering soon to appear in an online Pulp Comic Anthology.
Here is a taster panel of El Bigote's foes, (from left to right minus zombie ostrich) Ojos Locos, Tener Fojos and Craneo look confused as El Bigote evades them on the rooftops.

Read the rest of this madcap horror western soon!

Cheers

Chi

El Bigote

2011-08-17T15:14:00.000-07:00

Que Pasa?
This is 'El Bigote' an undead Wild West moustache quill-slinger out for revenge invented by Matthew 'Locust' McLaughlin appearing in his own strip somewhere soon...

Cheers

Chi

The Answer

2011-07-13T22:27:00.000-07:00

This is another one page strip written by Derek Hamill & lettered by Jim Campbell, now appearing in the webcomic Hadron Collideroscope.

Chi

Vanguard Issue 1

2011-07-11T14:07:00.000-07:00

Hello peeps! This is the cover (by the very talented Ghostpockets) to a new anthology comic Vanguard, the dreamchild of the Emerald Isle's very own overactive scribe Mr Dirk Van Dom, who pens all four stories in it, including a one-pager drawn by yours truly entitled Tucker's Romantic Escape (the first of many, apparently). So go get it here & enjoy!

Cheers

Chi

The Jerk Officers - Episode 1 ( &2 )

2011-06-07T14:34:00.000-07:00

This is the first (double) episode of 'The Jerk Officers', written by Scott Hartman (whose actual band this is), drawn by me & lettered by Filip Roncone.

Enjoy!

Chi

Tucker's Luck

2011-06-04T01:09:00.000-07:00

Don't be fooled by the friendly grin, this chap is not to be trusted! This is Tucker, a cheeky psycopath invented by Dirk Van Dom & dropping in for a visit somewhere near u soon! As they say on Crimewatch, do not approach...

Cheers

Chi

Dia De Los Muertos (Vivos)

2011-06-03T11:53:00.000-07:00

Que Pasa? Haven't writ for a while, this is what's taking up my time at the mo, it's a strip written byMatthew 'Locust' McLaughlin called 'El Bigote' & it is bonkers!! it's gonna take a while so u won't see me round these parts for sum time, hopefully should be worth it!

Muchas Gracias!

Chi

Pa

Puta la Gueada!

'Old One Eye' Comission

2011-04-25T11:03:00.000-07:00

Hi people, this is a picture I did for the Weekly Art Blog which led to a commision from one of the 2000ad Forum boarders so cheers Colin hope u enjoy your pic, there's a nice photo he sent me alongside a page from the inspiration behind it, Ramon Sola's amazing 'Flesh' T-Rexes from the Galaxy's Greatest!

Cheers

Chi

Paragon 7 Review

2011-04-10T12:05:00.000-07:00

A nice review of it at Comics Bulletin.
(This is the lovely cover by Matt Soffe)

And an even more flattering one at Geek Chocolate.

Cheers

Chi

Jikan For Japan!

2011-03-31T11:22:00.001-07:00

Wanna do your bit to help out the victims of the Japan earthquake/tsunami/nuclear alert? A few of us comic creators have banded together to make a four page comic short story entitled 'Jikan; The Flood' .Penned & masterminded by Mark J. Howard, you can bid for the original artwork for it (by me, Davey Candlish, Lee Bates, Owen Watts & Filip Roncone & lettered by Jim Campbell) here, & all proceeds gained go towards helping the victims of these (continuing) catastrophes. Go on , it's for a good cause, i've even thrown in the original pencils for my page.

Cheers

Chi

Scrunge!!

2011-03-29T14:26:00.000-07:00

This is a picture of 'Faceache', one of my childhood heroes from 'Buster' comic (i think) back in the old days! He could change his face (& body) into any shape, or 'scrunge' as he put it, which got him into allsorts of hi-jinks & misadventures. This is a tribute to the mad genius of Ken Reid the original artist & drawn for The Weekly Themed Art Blog.

Cheers

Chi

'Hrn!'

2011-03-23T17:14:00.000-07:00

That's all i can say about this particular project at the time being!

Cheers

Chi

What do you mean you didn't get 'The Jikan Chronicles'?

2011-03-18T16:54:00.000-07:00

Oh dear, i don't think time-travelling demon hunter Jikan is taking that news too well. You can still appease his anger by purchasing Paragon no. 7 with the entire 'Mistress Of Time' episode drawn by me & written by Mark J. Howard & splendidly lettered by Matt Brown. With two other cracking stories, available in print and as a digital download from the now Eagle Award nominated anthology comic Paragon website!

Choose Your Beastie!

2011-03-12T06:18:00.000-08:00

Here's a couple of beasties poor old Jikan will have the pleasure of running into in the future (past? present? time-travelling is a confusing business). The first is a Gryphon/Griffin from 'Jikan's Bounty', written by Dirk Van Dom and winging (geddit?) it's way to you sometime later this year & the second can be seen in 'Mistress Of Time' written by Mark J. Howard, as of next week available in it's entirety in Paragon issue no.7 so go get it!

Cheers

Chi

2011-03-06T16:34:00.000-08:00

Here's a pic i did for a new weekly art blog which can be viewed here. The theme was 'Exorcism' so i did a kick-ass priest getting a little help from St.Michael against some nasty demons!

Cheers

Chi

2011-02-27T11:29:00.000-08:00

Yo! Just posting this pic my first go at Manga Studio inking with a Bamboo. It's a pic from Jikan: Demon of Steel & Smoke which never made it to the final cos it was late (shameful, i know!) plus Davey wanted to change the end to tie in with the other stories. More Jikan v flying beasties coming soon! (once i get a new scanner!)

Ch Ch Ch Cheers

Chi

2011-02-18T15:01:00.000-08:00

Here's another very nice review of Jikan Chronicles at Comics Bulletin
Very much appreciated!

Chi

2011-02-08T16:53:00.000-08:00

Ok cool so first things first, here is some art i did for Davey Candlish's excellent small press comic anthology 'Paragon'.

It's an episode in the adventures of Jikan, a demon-battling, time-travelling Samurai. I did the art for the chapter entitled 'The Mistress Of Time' written by Mark (Shark) J. Howard &
should be appearing in Paragon No. 7 which will be available sometime soon.

This, along with all Jikan's adventures so far is already available in the form of 'The Jikan Chronicles' collection which is reviewed here

Okey Doke that's my first blog entry, hope it was sexy for you too!

Cheers

Chi

2011-02-08T16:51:00.000-08:00

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