Ink Dot escape Exhibition opens this Thursday 17th!

Here's another little detail from my brand new print which will be launched at the Howies/Ink-dot ESCAPE exhibition this Thursday 17th June.

There has been an update to the sizes available this time, so the print will now be available in the following sizes:

A3 Limited Edition of 50
A2 Limited edition of 30
A1 Limited edition of 10

The prints are being produced by those extremely talented gents at Hello Blue, and will be high definition giclee prints on beeeeutiful 315gsm 100% cotton, acid and bleach free archival quality paper. Lovely!

The show features over 30 other new prints from a selection of the UK's finest illustrators, animators and designers, so it's going to be awesome, basically.

Moe details HERE.

Both Robin and I will be at the launch, so we look forward to seeing you guys there!

Cheers!

Lorenzo!

9 1/2 years of lurve!

So, yesterday I celebrated 9 1/2 years of knowing and loving the most perfect girl in all the world, and in 3 months she'll go from being my girl to being my wife! I couldn't possibly be happier than when I'm with her, and I just wanted to say, I love you baby, you are literally PERFECT!

Lorenzo!

When Sports and Art Collide!

WooHoo - it's double post wednesday!

Following on from Lorenzo's wonderful morning scribblings I'm delighted to pop up a link to a lovely post from renowned travel/sports journalist Matt Barr.  Last year I had the awesome privilege of tearing up the French and Swiss Alps with Matt, but we rarely had the chance to chat about much more than snowboarding ... yep, unbelievable as it may be I forgot to mention the whole 'I make comics' thing until very recently!

Anyway, go visit the ACM writing blog HERE to read a cracking little bit of Etherington blurb from the king of the hill.

And for a taste of true mountain madness go HERE to watch Torstein Horgmo's triple cork!

I WANT TO DO THAT!

The NEXT sketchbook...

So, I've been totally blown away by the response to the release of my monster sketchbook, thanks to you all for the kind words and great feedback you've been sending us and telling us in the forums, it's made putting the whole thing together so worth it!

And so, as the last one took me about a year to put together (600 IS a lot of pages!) I've decided that as I want to get the next one published within the next 18 months, I probably need to start work on laying it up now.

"The NEXT one?!!" I hear you say.

Ohhhhh yeah, there's a LOT of stuff you still haven't seen yet...including this gal, who has a hint of the Miku Hatsune about her...

Stay tuned!

Lorenzo!

Clones Never Say DIE!

A new week in the Etherington kingdom means a brand new comic ADVENTURE! The Clones are back!

The latest issue of the increasingly popular Star Wars: The Clone Wars comic has hit the shelves with an action-packed tale from Robin. Star Wars Books online sum it up better than we can!

"Padawan Ahsoka Tano learns a valuable lesson in clone courage when she and Jedi Master Kit Fisto hear the tale of a badly wounded soldier. Are you brave enough to accompany trooper Marrt back to the planet where his entire squadron was wiped out? Jungle combat, monsters and duplicitous dealings abound in this thrilling tale!"

Nice!  Head to a supermarket or newsagent now to pick up your copy and take the fight to the bad guys!

Monday morning life drawings...

Okay, let's start the week with something sketchy. Each morning I warm up with a little quick life drawing, here's a few from today...

Lorenzo!

Birdsong beginnings

Happy Friiiiiiiday! Here's a little step-by-step character design, Lorenzo stylee.

This is for a little teeny-tiny Lore of the Things story we're doing to support the awesome Birdsong anthology, a superb little title that's chock-a-block with upcoming UK comics creators. The book itself will be in black and white, but I'm going to be doing it all up in colour too, because I'm funny like that...

More soon!

Lorenzo!

Ooooh! Sid and Rivet Badges!

Just wanted to show you these exclusive little metal beauties that DFB produced for the MCM expo! Mine are going on my school bag for sure!

Lorenzo!

Holy COSPLAY, Batman!

Well, the mighty MCM Expo has been and gone and left all those in attendance with some quite surreal memories!

If you've never attended this monstrous event (featuring anything and everything related to Movie, Animation and Comic culture) then you've missed out on the single greatest gathering of costumed marvels.

Forget Spidey, Superman and the like, it's almost impossible to describe the variety of obscure Japanese and Korean characters that walk the floors of the Excel centre. Of the 41,000 attendees that make the annual pilgrimage to the show, I would guess-timate that at least 39, 750 are in costume! It's an, er, amazing sight.

Anyway, the DFC Library was greeted warmly by the horde and I had the opportunity to chat to legions of Monkey Nuts fans who all asked the same question: "Where's Lorenzo? He's the talent."

To finish - here's a shot of ME (not Lorenzo, sorry) and the boss, David Fickling. 
The man's a legend!

One month until Lore of the Things!

30 days until THIS THING arrives!

Urgh! And Yay!

So, I'm in a bad mood today because I woke up as sick as a dog, and have not been able to go to MCM! Robin is there though, and is no doubt having a lovely time with all the DFC-ers!

So, to make myself feel a bit better I wanted to post up this absolutely AWESOME visual response to our new sketchbook that was sent to us by lovely gal Jen Smith, who we met at bristol last weekend.

Thank you Missy, you ROCK!

Lorenzo!

Exclusive new print being released in upcoming ink-dot exhibition!

More new stuff! Well, I'm very proud and excited to announce that I'll be releasing a brand new limited edition print as part of the awesome Ink-Dot Escape exhibition, which opens here in Bristol on June 17th in the Howies gallery on Queens Road.

Anyone who remembers the last ink-dot exhibition just before Christmas will know how exceptionally high the standard of both the art and the prints are in these shows. If you're free on the evening of the 17th then I thoroughly advise that you head down, and head down EARLY, as there were queues all evening to get in to the last launch night.

Those of you who can't make it to the show, or live outside the UK need fear not though, as the prints will be available to buy through the Ink-Dot site once the show launches. The prints are being produced by those extremely talented gents at Hello Blue, and will be high definition giclee prints on beeeeutiful 315gsm 100% cotton, acid and bleach free archival quality paper. Seriously, those guys make niiiice product!

In the meantimes, enjoy this little sneak-peek at a few details from my print, I'll show you a little more sooooon, and if you just can't wait, there are a few of my Stranski prints still left from the last show, which can be bought through our brand new store HERE!

Oh, and don't forget to drop by the DFC stand at the MCM expo this weekend!

Lorenzo!