With barely enough time to get his Aurealis award to the pool room, Tom Taylor has won another one - the 2012 Stan Lee Excelsior Award! Congratulations to Tom and Chris Scalf for their work on Star Wars: Blood Ties.

Keep coming up with awards, world - Tom is running out of stuff to win.

Supes

Hey, Internets! Here's a quick sketch of Superman done at work, purtied up in Photoshop.

The Canterville Ghost

So...Stephen Fry made an announcement on Twitter this week:
 

Many congratulations to Robert Chandler, who's producing this fine film!
  
The Canterville Ghost, starring Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie, is currently in pre-production and due for release at Christmas 2014. Executive Producers are Jerry Hibbert, Bob Benton and Stephen Fry; produced by Robert "The Silver Fox" Chandler and Gina Carter, directed by Kim Burdon.

Here's a pre-production concept I did for the Garden Of Death:

Full Of WIN

The Deep: Here Be Dragons just won the 2011 Aurealis Award for Best Illustrated Book/Graphic Novel! Here's beard aficionado/professional hat enthusiast Tom Taylor with the award:

Congratulations to Tom,Wolfgang Bylsma and the Gestalt team!

And now, on to book 2: The Vanishing Island - in which Kaiko will stand for NONE OF THIS NONSENSE, DAMMIT.

Another Skype scribble...

Notes from Friday's Skype conference. (It was a good one!)

I had a 2am conference call last week - took some notes on the back of an envelope.


Man, I suck at note taking.

What about croutons, David?

Watching Space Ghost while I redraw a panel from The Deep for the eleventy-fifth time. Also, I may be going insane.

Shark Dreaming

Happy New Year, Internets! Here's some light bedtime reading - written by Robert Chandler for his son when he was five and had a thing for sharks, illustrated by me. It's designed to be read aloud while the child's trying to get off to sleep, grabbing his toes / limbs under the covers at appropriate moments.

Enjoy!

Somewhere, It's Still Christmas

Merry Christmas, y'all, and a blessed New Year!

"The Deep" Press Roundup

I've been super-slack in reporting all the press that Tom "Human Headline" Taylor has been doing for The Deep - here's a selection:

http://www.comicbookresources.com/?id=32756&page=article

http://geek-news.mtv.com/2011/06/23/exploring-the-deep-with-writer-tom-taylor/

http://www.comicbooked.com/take-a-journey-to-the-deep/

http://www.brokenfrontier.com/lowdown/p/detail/tom-taylor-dives-deep

http://www.racebending.com/v4/featured/interview-with-tom-taylor-graphic-novelist-the-deep/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eIiAL-PBJY&feature=share

http://vimeo.com/32094111

Failbag

Some recent selections from the Bag O' Fail:

Supanova Launch

Hey again, Internets! This Saturday I'll be at Supanova for the Brisbane launch of The Deep: Here Be Dragons!

Clickety click for details:

Gestalt Book Launch

Hey, Internets! It's been a while.

This Saturday, October 29, I'll be at All Star Comics in Melbourne for the Gestalt Book Launch! Titles featured at the launch will be The Deep, The Eldritch Kid, Torn and Digested.

Check out All Star's blog for all the details:

...and now this, from Tom Taylor at facebook.com/explorethedeep:

"Wear a wetsuit - get a free book! Spread the word; the first person to wear a wetsuit to the Gestalt All Star Book Launch Extravaganza! tomorrow will get a free signed copy of The Deep: Here Be Dragons!"

Cass Cain

Yep.

July?

...where did that month go?

Here's Mockingbird to send off the month.

The Deep Cover Art

Here's the cover for The Deep: Here Be Dragons.


More of The Deep from around the Internets:

- Website

- Facebook

- Amazon

Leonardo Leads

I always wondered how the Turtles could fight properly with all that mouth-breathing...so here's Leonardo, with nostrils.

Super Doops

Just bench pressing a car, no biggie.

Poison Ivy

Holy petal projectiles, Batman!!

Tom Taylor talks to The Sci-Fi Block and gives a preview of his new comic title that I’ve been working on:

Linky Link

Maybe when it’s all done I’ll be able to post more often! Maybe.

Hedge Trimming?

More Life Drawing

A couple more quick sketches from life drawing.

Supergal

Thought I'd have another go at Kara after seeing Phil Noto's fantastic take.

Default Turtle

Raphael. Always.

Quick Sketches

Some 2 minute poses (I think?) from life drawing.

Le Suave

Sketch for a character design that was rejected (still fond of this one though).

Work Scribble

Wonder Womaaaaan!!!

...this one turned out pretty well.

Redhead + Goggles

Did this at short notice for the father-in-law's birthday party invitations.

And This Too

Random sketch done at work, tarted up in Photoshop.

Another Head

Yup.

Merry Christmas!

I hope it's a safe and happy one for you all.

No Atomo

I Superman.

Teen High Zombie Squad

The jaunty-yet-never-magniloquent Mr Darren Randall has revealed some footage from Teen High Zombie Squad! Here's the description from his blog:

"Teen High Zombie Squad began as a personal project I developed in my own time, working with the very talented stylings of my good friend James Brouwer, who developed the character designs with me. We merged our art styles together calling it "Brundle fly" resulting in the art style you see in the video. The project was pitched to Krome Studios where it was successful as far as getting a team of up to 12 assigned to the project. Under my direction, we created this trailer and a playable demo in 3 weeks (a lot of the art assets here were already built before the project was pitched to Krome). The trailer was successful in catching the eyes of a few different publishers but unfortunately Krome recently went into liquidation. As the creator, art director and co-character designer this is my most proud work to date."


**We should also mention that the environment concepts/stylings were done by the despicably talented Mr Jeremy Love.**

Teen High Zombie Squad Trailer from darren randall on Vimeo.

10 Second Sketch

I quite like this one.

Allons-y

A quick piece for a pitch that went nowhere...

Phaeton In His Chariot

Here's another fun project from the fearsome yet benevolent Robert Chandler of Space Age Films...

Mary Marvel

Here's my new 'Favourite Character I Never Knew Existed'.

Seen From The Bus

Her skateboard is long but she is quite small;
At least she won't have that far to fall.

By The Wayside

Hi, Internets! Here are some ditched first draft images from a couple of cool projects I'm working on at the moment.

Grotto

This is what, the eleventy-fifth mermaid I've posted?

Downtown Coolsville

While I was on leave after GG's birth, we watched The Iron Giant for the first time with MM (4 years and 3 months). I tried my hardest not to cry during the film. (Failed.)

Go Team!

Hey Internets! Earlier this month we welcomed our daughter GG into the world. Here's the newest member of the Awesome Squad at 2 days old.

Webslinger

A little lad sent me a picture of Spider-Man and asked for one in return! Here's the one I did: