Dwayne Loves Mary Lou

This is the cover to a small comic strip I designed for an issue of Dark Lane. Dwayne buys a super hot-rod Chevy and takes his girl out for a spin. The tyre blows out, they crash and the girl dies, so the strip depicts poor Dwayne wandering the desert whilst lamenting the loss of his beloved Mary Lou. Finally, he can stand his heartbreak no longer and puts a revolver to his head. The final panel of the strip reveals that Mary Lou is in fact the wrecked Chevy hot-rod being towed to the junk yard...

Portent

Author Tim Jeffreys told me that owls were often regarded in folklore as harbingers of Death.
T'wit-T'wooooooooooooooooooooooo

Super Powerful Liberators Are We

This illustrates a powerful poem on the theme of dictatorships.

Demon Wrangler

My warped Halloween version of Billy Caspar from Kes....

Lovebird

This is an illustration for a short story by Tim Jeffreys in the Valentine's issue of Dark Lane. It's about the danger of obsessive love.

True Love Never Dies

Don't you just love happy endings...?

Dark Lane

Last year I began designing covers for a literary booklet called Dark Lane Quarterly Collaborative. It is a publication issued by a collective of artists and writers and edited by the Bristol-based author Tim Jeffreys. The idea was to publish a regular collection of short stories, poems, artworks and whatever else took our fancy. Tim's open brief to me was to design covers with single illustrations that depicted some kind of strange narrative and acted as visual short stories within themselves.