D'Website of 'Israeli Go Bye-bye

The official D'Israeli website has lain neglected for several years since my web-based activity moved over to D'Blog, so this year I've decided to let the disraeli-demon.com domain expire.

Since I do still get emails from people saying they find information on the site useful (especially the stuff about colouring in Photoshop) I'm putting an archive of D'Website up on http://homepage.mac.com/matt_brooker/Sites/dizzy/index.html.

Be warned, the navigation on the site is a bit odd, and the mail link goes to a dead address. I can't fix any of this for the rather lame reason that I don't have an HTML editor right now, and my web-fu isn't up to editing pages without a WYSIWIG app.

ComicDom Colouring Talk & War of the Worlds Link

Me, banging on yet again about something-or-other at Athens Comicdom 2010.

Photograph by and © 2010 Gkikas Melachrinos. Used with permission.

For those of you who sat patiently through my colouring talk on Saturday at ComicDom, here's the link to the War of the Worlds web comic I used as an example. There's also a permanent link in the sidebar of the blog.

A panel from Ian Edginton's and my War of the Worlds comic, still available online at www.darkhorse.com

Thanks to everybody at ComicDom for a truly wonderful time - I'll be posting properly about the weekend soon, but right now I'm late late LATE with work, so I must get my head down for a bit!

Judge Dredd: Time's Squared

Page one of Judge Dredd: Time's Squared - sans lettering, you can make out my name-checks in panel one: the Shane Oakley block and the G.N Reid Underzoom.
Judge Dredd © 2007 Rebellion/2000AD
Judge Dredd created by John Wagner & Carlos Ezquerra

Prog 1551 flopped onto my mat this morning, bearing Judge Dredd: Time's Squared, the third part of Ian Edginton's & my time traveller stories. This is my first 2000AD story in colour*, which let me get a bit more experimental in places (I had a very tentative go at doing some Stickleback-style stuff in colour on page 3), though I'm not sure if my attempt to pastiche Carlos Ezquerra's photoshop colouring on page 4 really comes across.

My only sadness was that my little nods to my mates Shane Oakley and Graeme Reid (who provided much of the reference for this strip while I was away from home) in panel one of page 1 ended up covered with lettering; but those are the breaks, I guess. Knowing how this stuff goess, I put backup mentions in page 4, and I present page one here without lettering.

*I was surprised to realize this, but it's true; I've done full-colour strips for The Megazine, and colouring on other people's work for 2000AD itself, but never the full deal before now.

I spent ages on the effects in this panel, so here it is without lettering.
Judge Dredd © 2007 Rebellion/2000AD
Judge Dredd created by John Wagner & Carlos Ezquerra