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Sumpdoggy

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About Me

The art.....
It's all Jack Kirbys fault. All those comic-books as a kid freed my imagination (or poisoned my brain, depending on your viewpoint!). Since then I'm rarely without a pencil in my hand, or a gas-guzzlin' zombie monsta-freak in my head!
You want apes on motorcycles? Freaks in hot-rods? Devil girls to die for? Welcome to my world....

The T-shirts......
When art and rock n roll collide, the results often end up on T-shirts, so it's pretty inevitable I'd end up involved in this unique artform. Soon I wasn't only designing, but printing them myself.....
Sumpdoggy Designs itself was born out of my involvement in the grassroots music scene, writing for such mags as Bubblegum Slut and editing northern music mag Manilla. Nobody seemed interested in catering for the merchandise needs of new or up-coming bands, so Sumpdoggy was set up to provide bands with cool, affordable T-shirts no matter what their budget.

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My Interests

Art, doing it!
Art, looking at it, especially low-brow art, cool cartoonists and underground comix.
Bikes (bugs in my hair, wind in my teeth...),
And hot-rods.
All pictures on this page were done by me as commissions or for fun.
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I'd like to meet:

I'm happy to say hi and add anyone with similar tastes in art or music, or anyone I know personally or thru Sumpdoggy printing. I only ask for friendship if I think what you are doing is cool.

Random adders are usually ignored, so drop me a separate message if you think I might mistake you for one!

Always on the look out for good punky, psychobilly or garage rock bands to listen to

I was extrememly pleased to be asked to do the artwork for the Eruptors debut album, which will be available on March 3rd.

And heres a bit of animation I did with the Rocketgirl art featured above......

Latest Slut art below. Check out the Bubblegum Slut myspace page

Eruptors merch details. All their Ts available thru the Sumpdoggy website

Music:

A varied taste, but mostly harbouring a love of wild, sleazy, punky and subversive rock music.......The Wildhearts, The Hangmen, The Dead Pets, Dogs D'Amour, The Eruptors, Zen Motel, The Adicts, Gun Club, Wednesday 13, and the odd bit of reggea.


And just in case you're interested, the greatest rock album of all time is probably Psychonaut by Conny Bloom.

(So here's a portrait I did of the man himself....)

Movies:

Horror/fantasy movies generally,.... The Crow, Blade, The 13th Warrior

Books:

Seventies Sci-fi/fantasy, old pulp authors like RE Howard, intelligent graphic novels and any non-fiction exploring the more bizarre apects of human nature.
And of course..... Bubblegum Slut

Heroes:

Drew Hayes, Martin Emond, Simon Bisley, Glen Danzig.

Apes in hotrods are cool too...