Taking part in this again in August!
I will hopefully be launching a new zine on the day. Details to follow.
Paddy McAloon: The Missing Interviews
I was pleasantly surprised to receive an email from the great John Birch the other day informing me that he had published his long mooted book of unpublished interviews with Paddy McAloon of the brilliant and much loved band Prefab Sprout. The book is titled 'Paddy McAloon: The Missing Interviews'.
These were carried out as part of the research for a follow up to his book 'Prefab Sprout: the Early Years' to be titled 'The Thomas Dolby Years'.
The book features a handful of rough illustrations I did based on the bands album covers. I did these back in 2018 so I had virtually forgotten about the project when I got John's email.
You can order a copy of the new book on the link below as well as John's previous two books on the band (both of which are excellent!) The previous books are 'Prefab Sprout: The Early Years' and 'Myths, Melodies, Metaphysics and More' (originally published in 1993 and expanded in 2017)
https://www.theprefabsproutproject.com/john-birch.html
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| Protest Songs |
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| Andromeda Heights |
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| The Gunman and Other Stories |
Work In Progress Pics
Apologies for the lack of updates on this site of late. Here are some pics from various work in progress projects and random other new and new(ish) pics that I have not posted before.
'School Bop' and 'Flooded Race Track' are works in progress from a forthcoming zine project called 'How Do I Explain this?' made in collaboration with 2022 Papatango prizewinner Clive Judd.
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| 'More of What You Already Have' |
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| 'Masks' |
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| Taking Photos for Money, Taking Money for Photos' |
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| 'School Bop' |
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| 'Flooded Race Track' |
Last Hand Drawn T-Shirt Art
In December I announced that orders/commissions on hand drawn t-shirt art had ended. I may still consider making the odd one if the fee is absolutely astronomical though. Don't hold your breath then.
Here is the last one. Which is a remake/re-imagining of a shirt that was made to mark the publication of the short story collection 'Smoke and Other Tales' by Gerry King in 2015. Here are both shirts.
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| Smoke (2015) |
Hand Drawn T-shirt Greatest Hits!
I have been making hand drawn, bespoke t-shirt art for quite a few years. The first experiments in this medium were in around 2008. I have been commissioned to make around 200 of these in the years since. However, times change and the project has finally run its course and so any commissions on these end at the end of 2023.
You can still order until then.
I first announced the projects end back in the summer, but that led to surge in interest and so I kept them going for a bit longer.
Here are some of my hand drawn t-shirt 'Greatest Hits', or some of my favourite shirts that I can think of the time of writing.
2 Joel Lane inspired T-Shirts
Joel Lane inspired hand drawn T-shirt art made as part of my day long residency at 'The Witnesses Are Here', a day long celebration of the life and work of writer Joel Lane held at Voce Books in Birmingham on the 11th November 2023.
I am ceasing making hand drawn T-shirt art at the end of the year so if anyone out there wants one better be quick!
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