Yes it is finally here. I'll be using paypal to take payments. If you don't have it then comment and I'll get back to you.
Comics for sale under the cut or keep going down for new posts.

Here's a quick sketch of Naruto as a girl. I dunno why I like gender swapping characters it's just a fun challenge I guess. Also just your the real geeks out there, yes that is a poisoned toad drooling on a kunai knife.... So far I'm up to book 32 so don't go spoiling anything for me.

In other news we've had some great reviews for birdsong! One is on the Monkey on my back site the other being a very daper review on the Forbidden Planet Blog. Oh and a third I just found here! So don't forget you can pick up a copy here! Don't worry if it's sold out we have to keep re-listing to fill demand :)

Also if any one wants the inks of the naruto pic they're only 25 quid just email me at chamonkee@aol.com

I finally got round to colouring this picture of Colossus and Kitty. I don't normally draw superheroes so I found it a bit challenging. Most of all since I'm not really a fan of the X-men. I tend to prefer vigilantes like Batman or Green Arrow.

Also I'm going to try and take this friday off work and draw a 24hr comic. I missed the last official day in october so I figured I'd catch up. So if anyone wants to come up to sheffield and join me for the day then let me know!

Well the manga jiman competition I entered with the Japanese Embassy in London has been announced. I came in at sixth. Though the people who beat me pretty much deserved it. The main feedback from one of the judges that I know was that this comic just isn't as sharp as my usual standard, Which I have to agree on. I think the narrative gets a little muddled. I still like the flash back I just think I should have made it flow into and out of the story better. In the end I should have spent more time planning and scripting than I did. Plus looking back at it I realise although it's only been half a year since I drew it my arts become way tighter.

( 7 pages under the cut )

Still the prize event was great fun to go to and seeing the other entries was a real eye opener. I was especially impressed by Zarina Liew and David Landers entries. I'm pretty pleased that these guys and Naniiebim were some of the guys beating me.
Plus I should say thanks to Sarah & Stuart for putting us up over the weekend it was very much appreciated. Also thanks to everyone who helped me through while I traipsed around london with a fever and a serious breathing problem.

Also if you haven't been and bought your copy of pure awesome that everyone's talking about the go here and buy Birdsong!

So it's finally in! The comic you have all been waiting for! The Birdsong anthology is here and looks sexy. We've been working on this for a long time and an insane amount of man hours have gone into getting this published.

This is the first volume of a collaboration anthology by FAILBOAT PRESS, collecting together works by a number of artists including WILL KIRKBY (Chamonkee), NIKKI STUART (Shakino), WARWICK J CADWELL (WJD), SARAH MCINTYRE, DAVID O'CONNELL, NANIIEBIM
Comprising 6 oneshot and serial stories, it brings together some great artists we want to show off to the world!


80 black and white pages, colour cover, A5 and has sexy has hell spot lamination details.

The book has stories that read from left to right, and also has some that read from right to left so you can open the book each way. (There is even a palindromic comic in the center)
( Tasty tasty sample pages under the cut and an intro to the artists! )
Working on this has been a labor of love. We hand picked some of our favorite artists just so we can show them off to you guys out there. So please go to our store and pick up a copy and check out these wonderful people and their great comics.
Then Later on this year we'll hit you with issue two, which I promise you we'll make even better.

the etsy store is here!

and if you want to just buy it direct we're taking paypal at: failboatpress@googlemail.com the book is just $10 with $2 postage in the uk and $5 in the US. (Yes these prices are in dollars and not lovely british pounds..etsy prefers it this way....)

So here is a drawing challenge I've just finished. naniiebim  and myself do random pictures based on a theme one of us picks and we see what we can do. It allows us to draw something fun and random but also leaves us with something to make prints of for cons.
I chose the theme of mounted russian warrior women (Join in! Draw it I commands it). Though naniiebim is snowed under at the moment so I have to wait to see what she does.

I'm pretty pleased with the out come, the composition is pretty nice and I tried playing about with this purple shadow style of colouring that I've seen around being used by other artists (like freakangels by Paul Duffield, which i think is coloured by kate brown now). I'm also pleased with the little touches like the engine built into the hammer whilst still keeping it look chunky and deadly and the scars on her face where her tear ducts were removed.

Also if anyone's interested I'm selling the original artwork for £45 just leave a comment or email at chamonkee@aol.com postage is included in the price. The piece is inked on an A3 size page of bristol board.

This is a fan art for Marc Ellerby's (burnt_jamb ) Comic, Chloe Noonan. I've been promising to do this for a while now and with things a little settled at the moment I managed to finish it off. It's a great comic featuring the lovely Chloe as she balances her friends, her band, college work and of course hunting monsters...

So a long while back I posted an advert poster for a comic called tuk tuk that was going to run in an online magazine called Irregular. Well the add ran in issue and issue three will be out today, so I'm told by those hard working beavers over there. With it comes mt first Tuk Tuk strip. I have to say I had great fun doing it. It's been a while since I tried to do comedy. Though my first comic I drew on a regular basis was a comic strip called Soylent Brown.

Anyway, Tuk Tuk is set in a fictitious version of the British colonization of the indias, mixed with a steampunk disregard for technology appropriate for the era. Mixed with my sketchy recollections of the original dungeon and dragons rules. Which means gold=XP, which to my mind means a culture where the real fantasy heros aren't warrior or drug taking barbarians or aged mages crackling with the power of the ages but merchants who where out to make a fast buck. This of course led to me day dreaming about only fools and horses in a fantasy setting...

( A nice big making of under the cut with plenty of pics and doodles... )




So if you like Roleplaying or painting minatures then you should go check out Irregulars Magazine.

So I poked fun at naniiebim  a while bit cause she draws such great petite ladies. I wondered if she was ever going to draw any fat girls. So she did, so in retaliation so did I. I went for a colouring cross between ashley woods world war robot paintings and the amazing colours on the covers of Vikings (out through image at the mo). Knocking this off gave me a little breather and another character design for the sketch comic and finally named it. Heck I also like the logo for it too. Also with the end of the year coming it means I get more holiday to book for the coming year. Which I'm heavily thinking about going for a weekend in paris and buying my weight in comics.

Here's a few pages from my sketch comic. I'm just pooting this out in bits of spare time. I probably knuckle down properly and work on it after christmas day when I've still got sometime off work. The next page features their ride which is inspired by a landmark in Bristol... Also after christmas I'm planning of working on a pitch for a graphic novel set in my Flower Eaters setting. I'm working out the synopsis for the story and characters. hen I'll work on 5 sample pages to try sending to companies. I really want to try and make 2010 my year to make something happen. If any of you amazing people out there have any tips then please let me know! Edit: Poop I also forgot to mention that apparently I'm in the running for the manga jiman comp (touch wood) I got an email on Tuesday saying that my stuff will be on show at the Japanese embassy in February!