One of my favourite places is the Mid levels in HK.  It's just so frenetic with life, people, sights and sounds and smells.
There's a colour version of the drawing underway but I really like this as it is.





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Now who's taking who for a walk this beautiful Autumn day?



I was doodling and day dreaming the other day when this image began to form on my iPad.  I guess it's a moment in time that's about a certain quality of light and air and temperature and smells.  It's about that ambiance you can only get on a woodland walk in Autumn.

No idea how much that chic lady likes rambling through nature, but I just know that her dog, who has to spend most of the week being a fashion accessory is going nuts for i...
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This was fun. I recall those distant childhood days desperately trying to get traditional diamond kites to get aloft.  I'd often wonder if we could try the car-drag approach but fortunately my dad's common sense prevailed and the idea had to remain just a picture in my head... until now.
Inspired by Pascal Campion's fantastic illustrations I thought I'd play around on my iPad using SketchbookPro software and this is what happened!




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Like a regular subscription, the bad news falls through our mail box and stamps all over our day.

Just when you were pottering around the house, folding clothes, cleaning the floor, sorting that junk draw, another edition of the same old evil is delivered into your hands.

So sit down with a coffee and flick through the pages.  It's hard to believe what you're reading isn't it?


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Part of my 'MISPLACED' series.  2001's hero finds his transition through the Star gate disappointing.



Other worlds huh?  Never quite what you expect.

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"There's no such thing as Society", she infamously proclaimed.
I think it would be fair to say "opinion is divided" about her, however, the Tory Press and Government have conspired to try and give the impression that the people of the UK have a warm fuzzy glow about the tin-pot lady.

Frankly, as an innocent bystander of the 80s onwards I have very seldom heard a good word about her from even the most politically uncommitted people.

Therefore it seems beholden on Seething Lane to at least try (in...
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Always fun to watch a 'Journalist' claim that extensive police investigations are a sideshow and a waste of money.  Also 'cringe-making' to see her partner evoking the image of murder investigations, when the hacking of Milly Dowler's phone is a fundamental part of the investigation.





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This week Health Minister Andrew Lansley is all over the news thanks to his visit to the Nurse's annual conference. Even Lady Cantata could earn a thing or two from him.




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Of course we all know that 'Big Business' = 'A Big Heart' so it's always a delight to see politicians standing up for the big guy against the.... er... the miss-informed.
There's always a money making opportunity to be had, and the 'occupy' protestors could do very nicely through a book deal or two. And Lady Cantata owns a publishing company I believe; So what are you waiting for?





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The Prime Minister sees himself as the guardian of public taste - leading to a venomous outpouring of tabloid bile.  Thank goodness for our betters.  We can sleep easily in our thatched cottages, Tudor Manors and Stately Homes.



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A number of pages are nearly complete so I thought I'd at least post the opening page as a taster. (Just a low rez for now!)

 



 

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I'm currently working on a five page Seething Lane story.  Yep - five whole pages !  Eeek!  So rather than posting individual short strips I'll be posting excerpts, sketches and 'work in progress' for the next month.

Here's the first stage of an aerial view over the city as an airship approaches Bullingdon's apartments atop his own 'Bullingdon Tower'

 
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Sam noticed this book for sale all around London.  It looks like an interesting, if rather unbelievable, tale.



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Incredibly, in this age of cuts, bankruptcy and financial despair, there are politicians that are suggesting that what the country needs right now, is to band together and pay for a new yacht for the Royal family.  You couldn't make it up could you?  So I didn't - I just repeated the facts.

Also this week at the Leveson Inquiry into media ethics (ha!) the hunting down and pursuit of a minor royal (Pippa Middleton) by the paparazzi was making news. The untouchable hunted down by the unspeakable...
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The Leverson Inquiry continues to throw up drama and comedy in Seething Lane and it's now the turn of the Organ-Grinders to entertain us.

If it sounds like it might be true.... lob it in.  And as for 'ethics' ?  What the hell does that mean?

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Like siblings bickering, Cessminster and Holywreck revel in their endless squabbles.  As the Great Northern Tribes once again discuss running away, Bullingdon and his party plot, plan and connive. 

The 'wanna-be' King of the Great Northern Tribes sits and chuckles, waiting for the game to unfold.




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Say 'Hello' to Lady Cantata. Lady 'C' stalks the corridors of power in her killer heels searching out the weak.  A lifelong party wife she rose to Government despite Bullingdon and Scarlatti's opposition and now intrigues and dissembles better than anyone of the PM's toadying minions.

She is often sent out on missions that require rather more subtlety than Scarlatti could ever manage. Inveterate worshiper at the alter of free enterprise she is reputedly a 'sleeping' Director of more than a tho...
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It would be nice to think that this episode was extreme and far-fetched but in light of recent events, political exposes, phone hacking scandals and enquiries it seems rather to close to our politicians and their media masters for comfort.

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In these days of a struggling economy the Chancellor Scarlatti is determined to find a way to boost takings at the checkout.

Don't worry that you're sinking further into debt; here's an offer you can't refuse.



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Bullingdon likes to play the hero, fending-off 'Johnny Foreigner".  And a Eurostan summit always opens up the possibility of playing to NewsTrolls back home.  The Headlines will love you Bullingdon, the headlines will love you.
 

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UK fans of 'The Today Programme" mornings on Radio 4 will recognise this scenario all too well.  If you've never heard it, the programme's 'rottweiler' presenter John Humphrys is infamous for talking more than the interviewee and interrupting their every sentence.

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I love Simpkins. Let's face it; you can never have enough Robots.  Simpkins is a strange mix of elements from 'Robbie' from Fireball XL5, 'Robbie' from Forbidden Planet, Kryten from Red Dwarf, Manuel from Fawlty Towers, Sheldon from Big Bang Theory and Megan Fox from Transformers.

 

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Frankly, Chancellor Scarlatti is a nasty little shit.  Which is funny really as most Chancellors are quite charming fellows or 'or a really good bloke' as their multimillionaire pals would say.

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Inspired by events surrounding the 'Weapons of mass Destruction' scandal, this strip morphed into several different versions before I settled on this.
Still... you've got to laugh.

 

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Simpkins steals the show.  One espresso too many and he loses his head and ends up on his back.

Simpkins is a devoted assistant to Sam and despite his accident-prone nature is able to be another pair of eyes and ears upon the intrigues around parliament. He will also commit terrible acts on instruction.  Not particularly nice I know, but useful you've got to admit.
 

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Sam walking through the city.  This was one of my first opportunities to think about the version of London and Cessminster I was creating.  In this early incarnation there are all the usual Steampunk elements there but even at this point I was already starting to think about feeding in some more 'story book', 'electro' motifs as well as cutesy/bizarre settings and characters.

 



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