ghost galaxy

I've moved again

2009-02-12T04:35:00.000-08:00

I've moved again, I'm over here now.

hope springs

2009-02-07T12:07:00.000-08:00

Here's two pages I managed last month. Will hopefully be a bit more productive now I'm in my own place again.

eating well

2009-02-07T10:18:00.000-08:00

Here's me and grandad doug enjoying a meal at the fabulouse petersham hotel in richmond, surrey. previous diners include ant and dec, will carling and mick jagger. we went past tommy steele's house on the bus on the way there. it was like a palace. the food was amazing, seriously the best meal I've ever eaten, well apart from sue's christmas dinner.

Park Life

2009-01-20T08:20:00.000-08:00

I'm now living in London, well Kingston in Surrey for the next 2 weeks then we move to Finsbury Park. Since I've been here, I've been to Tate Britain, The V&A, The National Gallery and briefly to the Natural History museum (we left pretty quickly due to the volume of crazy people).
I've been drawing away, but due to 95% of my stuff being in storage, I can't show you any of it.
Hope you'll all okay, especially you Jim (my only reader) I'm off now to try and fing GOSH! comics which I think is somewhere near Wimbledon.

Long live the Dead

2009-01-05T03:26:00.000-08:00

here's 2 photos of my drunken leaving do , there's the 2 Lees and The Chat on music playing duties, and me with the new bins on drinking fool duties. The bottom photo is of what I drew this week. So that's it for now, I'm off down south on thursday after a decade in MCR. Manchester..so much to answer for.

Happy Christmas

2008-12-23T11:02:00.000-08:00

Here's some photos of what I've drawn recently. All of this stuff is for that skateboard comic I'm "working on". What else? Well I've submitted one of my better efforts to this t-shirt contest. So if you can be bothered then vote for it or whatever (not even sure how it all works). Got a lovely Crab Lane Crew comic from my friend Jim Medway. It's really good. he's going to be FAMOUS!
I'm moving to London town in a couple of weeks, so no doubt these blog updates will become even more rare.
Okay, bye!

1989

2008-12-20T09:38:00.001-08:00

Top 10 albums of 2008

2008-12-15T02:31:00.001-08:00

Jim Phillips

2008-12-14T14:34:00.000-08:00

Okay so this post is all about one of my favourite artists, Jim Phillips. He's the guy who, along with VC Johnson, was responsible for some of the greatest skate graphics ever. The Screaming Hand, THAT Jason Jessee graphic and, oh I don't know, a hundred other drop dead beautiful neon classics. Here's some of my faves:

Here's a link to Fecal Faces visit to his studio which is pretty much mindblowing.

Christ(mas) Air

2008-12-10T13:34:00.001-08:00

Mung Bean

2008-12-10T10:44:00.000-08:00

I've got some of my Ghost Galaxy comicfeatured here, but you know, I'm kinda over it and more into doing this new eighties skateboard comic thing for now. Typical me.

Ebay Shop

2008-11-30T05:54:00.000-08:00

I've gone and got myself one of them there EBAY SHOPS, to sell some ink and paper (ahem) "classics". So go on and snap one up, and we'll be friends for life.

Skateboard Johnny

2008-11-24T01:10:00.000-08:00

So, inevitably I'm now working on a new comic strip which is kinda like 'Roy of the Rovers' meets 'Stoked'. Which is good for 2 reasons: 1. It's about my favourite subject: skate nostalgia. And 2: I get to dig up amazing clips like this one (actually that's just one reason):

I like the bit where Gator etc just turn up at the park and are like "No way, check it out, stevie caballero!"

Streetstyle in Tempe 1986

2008-11-22T09:10:00.000-08:00

Through a scanner, darkly.

2008-11-19T11:16:00.000-08:00

Okay, so my scanner is bust. Dead. Kaput. In an effort to keep you, the reader, coming back here for more until I sort out getting a new scanning device, I'll try and post some other stuff in the meantime. First up is an attempt to get images of all the skate decks I've ever had the pleasure to own. So here goes (in no particular order):

This was my first proper board (I started out on a (ahem) piece of shit complete called a "RipStik Bone Edd" which I randomly ended up with, despite marching my parents into the bike shop to buy a sweet Powell McGill Skull and snake graphic. I went the whole hog with this one setting it up (just like Sean Goff had his in his R.A.D magazine interview) with yellow trackers and blue kryptonics wheels. I even had the belinda carlisle griptape job. Ah, misspent youth!

Ones I need to track down include: a Fred Gall slick (alien workshop), a lovely glitter graphic/slick Ron Whalley (Santa Cruz), a big green Carl Shipman (Stereo) and about 10 others from more recent years.

Paintings for sale

2008-11-15T13:57:00.000-08:00

I've put some paintings I did back in 2006 up for sale on EBAY, also have a look at some posters etc for sale in my shop (click ghost galaxy shop link over there >>>>)

Vision Skate Escape 1987

2008-11-10T12:27:00.000-08:00

Here's a photo of the second in a series of drawings I'm doing about skate fans from "yesteryear". (see mount trashmore post below). It's a photo because my scanner has died which may well cause this blog to slow right down, postwise.

the headache

2008-11-09T09:14:00.000-08:00

Thanks to my friends for coming out last night to toast my birthday. I was going to write a thank you note on real thank you note paper and scan it in. But I can't function normally today so this will have to do. Presents-wise, i got Johnny Ryan's XXX scumbag party, awesome I fucking shot that!, the ron burgundy classy collection, a damn right weird cat ice cube maker tray thing, a green ipod, rust never sleeps and some smells.
Me and Little Joe (amongst others) are playing seven 7" singles each at this event in a few weeks time. it'd be good to see you.

Not sure about the KISS make up.

2008-11-02T12:36:00.000-08:00

Mt. Trashmore

2008-10-29T14:19:00.000-07:00

blender

2008-10-26T04:15:00.000-07:00

Fucking Stupid Band Names

2008-10-23T13:35:00.001-07:00

Ghost Galaxy Part 1

2008-10-20T08:21:00.001-07:00