Robot Unicorns

Yo yo RU homies, it’s mah birthday!

Here's the unicorn by Matt Sewell, who I met last year at Green Man festival. Matt has created a series of bird books, named Our Garden Birds, Our Songbirds, Owls and Our Woodland Birds. which contain water colour illustrations of birds. They rlly cute.

Matt's RU looks super happy & magical (note: large unicorn grin and little twinkle shapes). Perhaps it's because it's at Green Man festival... THE GREATEST MUSIC FESTIVAL IN THE WORLD!!! (note: Brecon Beacons in background, situated right next to the festival.) Thanks for the fantastic RU Matt!

Here's the abstract robot unicorn by illustrator Peter Cline who I met last ELCAF. He does a lot of stuff for Otto Press, and created the comic Ocular Anecdotes.

Peter's RU looks like futuristic unicorn made with technologies currently unknown to mankind. Maybe we'll have to wait a few hundred years... Thanks Peter!

HAPPY NEW YEAR FOLKS!!

I hope your year will be full of rainbows and candy floss.

See y'all in a bit!

Here is the RU by the Canadian illustrator legend, Seth. I met him at ELCAF 2014 where he was doing book signings and the like. Seth does loads of comics, magazine covers and book designs, and this unicorn has been on the hit list for a long time.

Sadly on screen you can't see the wicked cool silver and gold ink he used to draw this RU, but just know that it was built of the finest metals (and looks pretty fabulous).

This is the RU by Nick White, an illustrator I met at ELCAF 2014. Nick's art is all really cool but also kinda creepy and funny too if ya get me.

So is his robot unicorn as you can see. It has a special moving, tentacle like horn, to pick stuff up, an y'know.. do cooking and other stuff. 

Nick has a great website which is here. He is also in a band called Owen & The Eyeballs, the Twitter page for it is here.

On mah holiday I visited Angoulême, comics capital of France. Every february there is a massive comics festival in Angoulême which sounds amazing, but I'm never able to go because it's during school time (once again you have foiled my plans you buffoons).

There's also a famous comics museum in Angoulême, which I visited and it was aaaawesome. There was an exhibition of the comics 'Metal Hurlant' and '(A Suivre)', which was looking back through the history of the two comics in the 70s and 80s. I discovered some pretty great artists and graphic novels, which was kewl.

There are also lots of murals painted around the city featuring many BD characters, like the one pictured above.

Huge apologies for not posting anything for ages, it's just been really hectic around here and I've been on holiday and been doing homework and tests and just school stuff in general. But it feels good to be back... fo' reals!

I also have a load of stuff to post that I have accumulated over this period, so look forward to that, I know I am!

Happy tumbling, Joe

Here's the robot unicorn by Tom Gauld, who I met at ELCAF 2014 recently. Tom's been on the infamous RU artist hit list right from the start, so this unicorn has been long-awaited.

Tom draws loads of robots and he did the illustrations in a version of the book The Iron Man and a book called The Gigantic Robot, so I knew his robot unicorn would be super cool!

Thanks Tom!

ELCAF is coming up in two days and I am mucho excited about it. It's pretty much the best time of the year for getting RUs to add to the herd and it's also a great comic event.

My Undead RU! If you like this I’ve set myself a challenge to do a piece of art or music everyday which will appear on my blog along with other stuff :)