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Simon

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About Me

I'm an illustrator/artist specialising in pencilled comicbook artwork and caricature. I've been drawing for many years, mainly comicbook and illustration art,I'm also a cartoonist and caricaturist and I dabble in digital art with a gallery on www.imaginefx.com.I've been published in various publications and small press titles in the UK. I've produced book, magazine, cartoons,web images and illustrations for role-playing games. I've produced artwork for Royal Mail, ACCAC, illustrated the novel Glyn Dwr's War (Wales Books)by Gideon Brough, designed T-Shirts and promotional images for Iron Maiden and cartoon images for Applemed Design and Zoobiotic Ltd.I was National Young Cartoonist of the Year for Wales and I hold a Distinction in Freelance Cartooning and Illustration.I'm currently working on my own Graphic Novel called ..Unbelievable'(The Man Who Ate Daffodils) and pencilling comicbooks for Orang Utan Comics. My OGN is a modern faerytale of fantasy, horror and Welsh myth (with a little cryptozoology and folklore thrown in). You can see ..making of' pages in my gallery on Comicspace and read news on my blog 'Strangely Drawn'Artwork for Orang Utan Comics includes Danick and the Dragon for issue two of Eleventh Hour (out now!) and the four issue mini series ..The Intergalactic Adventures Of Slam Ridley' - coming soon for '08!Future projects include 'Pendragon' a three issue series with Eagle Award winning writer Andy Winter of Moonface.That's me!(P.S. I'd appreciate that you'd please not send large images as comments (though around 400pixels wide is fine)and please - no adverts without permission!

Myspace Layouts at Pimp-My-Profile.com / Black & Orange

My Interests

Art, Comics, Graphic Novels, Concept Art, Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Digital, Animation. Myth & Folklore, Movies.

I'd like to meet:

Artists, painters, directors, producers, other comic book artists and writers, fantasy, sci-fi and movie fans, movie concept artists and anybody interested in comics, the paranormal, cryptozooology, folklore, myths and legends.

Music:

Eclectic tastes

Movies:

Sci Fi, Fantasy, Action, Thriller, Horror, Monster Movies, Comedy, etc

Television:

Heroes, Futurama, Family Guy, Dr Who, Torchwood, anything on paranormal, myth, folklore, etc. Cartoons, lots of cartoons! Ha! Ha!

Books:

Various and too many to list, graphic novels, comicbooks, fantasy, horror.

Heroes:

First of all, my beautiful, georgeous, other(and better)half, for being so supportive of me over the years. Stan Lee, Alan Davis, John Byrne, Frank Miller, George Perez, John Romita Jr, Bruce Timm, Alex Ross, Mike Mignola, Mike Collins, David A Roach, Bojan M Djucikc, David Hitchcock, George Lucas, Spielberg, Ray Harryhousen, loads more - too many to list here.

My Blog

Orang Utan Comics - new website!

www.orangutancomics.co.uk.Orangutan now has a fantastic new website which includes a creator profile of little ol' me! (Last as always, sigh!....my fault...surname starting with a W! (lol!)Si...
Posted by Simon on Fri, 26 Oct 2007 03:40:00 PST