Haggis haggisi,  popularly known as the bastard of the animal kingdom:

I’ve had a surprising amount of fun with this week’s remake thread on Whitechapel.

Warren’s brief:

So here’s the deal:

You are an artist/designer.

You have to put together the cover for the first issue of what you have been told is the first ever romance comic. It is called YOUNG ROMANCE.

The publisher wants to be sure that you get the text ALL TRUE LOVE STORIES on the cover somewhere.

And that’s it.

My favourite lizard, now available in handy print form:

This week from Warren Ellis:

So here’s the deal:

You are an artist/designer. You have to put together the cover for issue 15 of a comic called AMAZING ADULT FANTASY.

Now, the publisher has decreed that, with #15, the title will become simply AMAZING FANTASY. But, I dunno, you’re a drunk, or a drug fiend, or you have seizures or something, and you’ve totally forgotten about that. AMAZING ADULT FANTASY it is.

Thing is, there’s a new character to be introduced on the cover. You remember that instruction. But you lost all the notes and pages — you used them for bedding or toilet paper, you don’t really recall. You know nothing about that character beyond its name, and that it apparently fits in a book called AMAZING ADULT FANTASY (which was once subtitled “The magazine that respects your intelligence”).

All you know that is the title is AMAZING ADULT FANTASY, the issue number is 15, and there has to be a character called SPIDER-MAN on the cover somewhere.

And that’s it.

I came up with two this week, one a bit Robert Crumb-like, the other a tiny bit more subtle:

I think I’m happier with the second one. This week the remake is for Young Romance #1...

There’s a new idea on Whitechapel. From Warren’s description:

You are an artist/designer. You have to put together the cover for the first issue of a weekly science-fiction anthology comic called 2000AD.
You don’t know much about what’s in it. You’ve been given the following pieces of information to include on the cover somehow:

“featuring the new DAN DARE”

“M.A.C.H. 1 – his incredible hyperpower will amaze you!”

“SPACE-AGE DINOSAURS! Read ‘FLESH’ ”

“STOP PRESS! GREAT BRITAIN INVADED!”

The cover must include a logo and the numbering, which you’ve been told is not the usual “issue one,” but “Programme 1.”

And that’s it.

I couldn’t possibly resist something like that now could I?

Damn right I couldn’t. 2000AD, prog. 1, circa 1840.

I was a busy boy last night, the kitchen floor is covered in prints like an inky minefield. Here’s two:

I’ll be scanning these in for a better image when they finally dry, and they’ll be in the shop by next week. Oh yes!

I’m afraid Zombie Kitty is going to take a break now. Having a dayjob means my drawing time is stupidly thin on the ground SO for the next couple of months I’ll be shelving the comic to work on my linocuts and getting a decent comic browser set up for the return of your favourite undead kitty.

You might remember that right before I moved to Edinburgh I got a big (by my standards) upper arm tattoo. Well it only took me two years but I got it coloured in today:

Woo howdy!* The colour is Monthly Red, I’ll let you make your own minds up over that name. I’ll try and get better photos tomorrow, it’s not easy taking a decent photo of your own shoulder…

It’s all go round here eh? If you click on the newly-hatched fella above you’ll find you too can get him mashed onto a t-shirt of your choosing.  Remember to send me a confirmation e-mail saying what you’ve ordered and where you’d like it sent, I could guess but that’d just get everybody in trouble yes?