Another one for the Asylum

Firstly: I suppose the following contains SPOILERS if you haven't seen the "Asylum of the Daleks" episode of Doctor Who yet...

So, SPOILER WARNING!

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Okay, so the Daleks can't remember the Doctor now, right? Which is all well and good and exciting, but it got me worrying about something, and... look, just read the comic I made about it.

Build-a-Bot

I have just spent five minutes amusing myself with the new Bot Factory feature on the MEGATON website - its a nifty little gadget that lets you build your own little MEGATON-style robot avatar for the site, and I designed all the bits and pieces for it. You can end up with some quite entertainingly silly-looking robots, as the examples above should demonstrate. Why not go have a look? There's a couple of comics I drew up on there, and all.

Of course, now I am totally daydreaming about the potential for a Mo-Bot designer using this technology. We'll have to see about that.

Anyway! I'm afraid that due to me suddenly being very busy with work (time wasted designing silly robots notwithstanding) there's no Emergent Comics today, but you have my solemn promise that when the next instalment does arrive, it will be PROPER AWESOME.

Doctor Doom Is Happy!

In case you require it: an explanation.

SUMO RIDDLE BOMB!!!

Occasionally I like to draw something random, to cheer myself up / warm up / get the juices flowing / blah blah bah. Anyway, today was such a day, so I put out the call for Twitter to tell me what to draw. Leenygma suggested:

A cross between a Sumo Wrestler and a heroic version of the Riddler. With a jetpack.

Combining as it does two of my very favourite things to draw (obscenely fat guys, jetpacks), this was clearly a no-brainer for me. His name is SUMO RIDDLE BOMB!!! and I think you will agree he deserves his own Saturday morning cartoon series immediately.

More nonsense like this - next week? Oh, probably.

Displacement Activity

Today is my annual day to tidy up my studio! There is, I admit, a case to be made for making it a slightly more regular occurrence. Anyway, I don't want to do it, so you - you lucky people - get a blog post instead!

I've been flat out with work lately, getting everything together for the Mo-bot High book. I'm really happy with how it's all shaping up, can't wait for you guys to see it. Will post about it all a bit nearer the time, and show you some of what I've been up to...

Anyway! Couple of things I've been meaning to mention.

Firstly: Hashtag Funnies! I can only apologise to anyone who was enjoying these (and I include myself in that) for their complete disappearance - it's just down to workload, really. They were always supposed to be just a quick warm-up exercise, but I always ended up going over the allotted hour once you factored in the time for lettering, saving files, uploading etc, and I just really haven't got that kind of wiggle room at the moment. I do intend to get back to them - or something similar - as I kind of discovered I really, really enjoy doing the gag-strip-a-day thing. I've got half a notion to print a bunch of them off as a mini-comic at some point, so look for that in 2010! Mmmmaybe?

Secondly: while I often mention / whine about how busy I am with work, it occurred to me that I haven't actually blogged anything work-related in like a year, so thought I'd chuck a few sample pages of recent projects up on here. A lot of recent and current work is all under wraps, but here are some recently completed things that are OK to blog...

First up, here are a couple of educational maths-y comics, part of a series I've been working on for the BBC as part of their raw numbers project:

And here are some pages from a comic strip I did for a road safety mag aimed at kids starting secondary school:

And finally, continuing the public awareness theme, here are a couple of pages of 'pencils' from a comic aimed at reducing the incidence of Chronic Indigenous Disease amongst aboriginal communities in Australia:

You can't say I don't have a varied workload.

Right, and with that, these mounds of paper, unopened bank statements and printouts of old Lois Lane covers aren't going to organise themselves...

Full of Existential Dread Kitten Santa

Awwwwwww.

Thanks to James for suggesting today's Santa, and to everyone else who suggested Santas! you are a bunch of crazy, crazy people, but you are giving me an awfully entertaining December already. Feel free to chip in your own suggestions in comments here or on Twitter. Another Santa tomorrow - and indeed, every day till New Doctor Who Day (or 'Christmas', as it is still quaintly known in some quarters).

SPECIAL BONUS SANTA DUMBNESS! Here is a thing I made this morning to entertain myself: a comic made entirely out of my twitter avatar. Ladies and Gentlemen: the World's Smallest Webcomic! (Reads from the bottom up):

Blipping myself silly

I have been getting caught up with all the marvelous new timewasting possibilities offered by the internet under the guise of "social networking"¹, and I have to say my favourite by far is Blip.FM, a rather clever system that lets you kind of build your own radio station and earn "props" for your musical choices.

It's like having control of the stereo at a party, except no-one can tell you to shut up and play something people actually like. (PHILISTINES). It is diverting, wonderful and hilarious, and I've already discovered some really great music via other people's 'blips'. Go look me up on there at blip.fm/neillcameron, it's way nifty.

Here is a mini embedded version of Neill.FM. I think you will agree it is highly awesome. What's that? Too much hip-hop? PHILISTINES.




I am also on Twitter now, at twitter.com/neillcameron but I'm still kind of getting my head round that.


¹ Any clients / editors reading this: only joking, I work VERY HARD.