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This is the pencil sketch for a PINUP I’m doing for my pal Nate Stanton, one of the lads from E-Ville press. AFTERWORKS 2, the second E-Ville Press anthology, will be published later this year by Image comics, and in colour this time. Which means that I have to colour the pic this weekend… And … Read more
Did you know that there is a version of POLO where the steeds are elephants rather than the more traditional horses? There are actually several elephant Polo competitions held around the world, in countries you might associate with elephants, such as Nepal and Thailand. But I bet you didn’t know that the reigning world champion … Read more
People said this year’s Alternative Press Expo was slower than the last, but I heard that last year too. APE used to be first on the Californian convention-calendar, and benefited from the build-up of gomer excitement during the 7 months following Comic Con. That nerd dividend now goes to Wondercon (since the date switch with … Read more
Elephants appear in the news media in reports that fall into a few categories. Such as stories about: elephants under attack by poachers (or loss of ecosystem), rampaging elephants, scientific research involving elephants, elephants in captivity and so on. In my Dad’s book these stories are arranged by category into their own chapters and each … Read more
My Dad’s limerick book opens with a quotation from the classical scholar PLINY THE ELDER, who was the first natural historian, being the author of the Naturalis Historia, and had nothing but good things to say about elephants, hence his quote opens the book. I looked for visual reference on Pliny, but no contemporary portraits … Read more