Superheroes Exhibition launch party

Our hero with assorted superheroes
Our hero modelling a very fetching cape (photo Sarah McIntyre)



Photos © Tim Mitchell

Me with the Discover team (photo Sarah McIntyre)

Great launch party last week for the interactive Superheroes exhibition that I just finished working on with the lovely folk at the Discover Children's Story Centre in Stratford so here's a few photographs of the exhibition (& a couple of me looking silly too!)
Big thanks everybody at Discover for being delightful to work with & for all their brilliant work in making the exhibition work so well

Images courtesy of  Tim Mitchell, Arena Illustration & also thanks to Sarah McIntyre, monster illustrator extraordinaire who has kindly let me nick some  photos from her blog

More images here

Welcome to Alphabet City!

Animated intro for the interactive Superheroes Exhibition at the Discover Children's Story Centre featuring square jaws, a surfeit of cape-ery & a glimpse of a Super-Villain to boot! See it here

(thanks to Sam Hooper for some great sound design)

Hair gunk...

Love a bit of pomade me! (This is a tiny segment from a new book I've been drawing - but so tiny it won't make any difference if I show you but shhhhhhh!)

I used to have a hairdresser who suddenly overnight became allergic to all such 'product' (as they term it in the coiffeuring trade) very distressing all round - it'd be like me becoming allergic to pencils or something...

( see also 'Look mom, no hands' )

Meet the Superheroes!

These are the finished comic strips that go with the children's Superheroes exhibition that I've just finished working on. They introduce the superheroes A,E,I,O & U in their battle against the evil vowel snatching villain Y. (all superheroes need a good origin story!)
The exhibition (which makes me wish I was 6 years old again!) is at the Discover Children's Story Centre in Stratford & is open until the 4th November - more details here

ssssssnake...

(forgot his ssssssssatchel!)

Topiary haircut

I always ask for the 'bird' at the hairdressers

Badges!

I visited the Superheroes exhibition this morning - it's all looking really great, the folks at the Discover Children's Story Centre have done an amazing job, photos to follow. Today I got to wear a cape, sit in a Super Car & got given badges & comics too - yay!

Superheroes comic strips

Here's a selection of the comic strips I produced for the Superheroes exhibition at the Discover Children's Story Centre in Stratford, East London showing the origins of the main characters. The superheroes A, E, I, O & U are battling the dastardly villain Y who is stealing all the vowels from Alphabet City!

I was commissioned to design the superhero & super villain characters & the the urban environment the exhibition is set in (including lots of fun with signs & animals! : )I also produced some animated clips for the interactive parts of the exhibition

The exhibition opened on Sunday 1st April & will run until 4th November - I haven't had a chance to see the finished piece yet, looking forward to it loads.

You can find out more details on the Discover website

Noises...

A page of obscure noises

Superheroes Exhibition

The Superheroes exhibition I've been designing with the Discover Children's Story Centre in Stratford is opening this Sunday 1st April!

(To celebrate the opening of Superheroes on Sunday 1st of April the centre will be free all day. Book tickets on 020 8536 5555)

http://www.discover.org.uk/whatson/event/superheroes

'Look Mom, no hands!'

...this would be very ruinous to my career.

That's all.
(maybe eschew the pork mittens next time?)

Superheroes exhibition

Over the last few months I've been working with the lovely team at The Discover Children's Story Centre designing for an interactive Superheroes exhibition which opens on the 1st April through to the 4th November - I was at the centre yesterday & it's all looking great so here's taster of the display window...more to follow

Find out more here http://www.discover.org.uk/whatson/event/superheroes

Economist Technology Quarterly

Had a lot of fun tackling this cover & insides for The Economist Technology Quarterly for an article called ‘Can The Scientists Keep Up’about drug testing in sport

(They also indulged my delving into the murky world of Inca coca leaf chewing, Viking psyllocybin abuse & other drug abuse in the ancient world which was alluded to in the article along with some gratuitous 'biros in lab coat' scientist clichés!)

For previous work for The Economist click here
Read the article here
http://www.economist.com/node/21548498

tall stories...

taptaptaptap...

It's Onomatopaeia Monday™ folks!*

(*this is a made up day, any resemblance to any other day living or dead is purely coincidental, don't all start going out to buy Hallmark cards for the occasion)

Mr F***-up.

After a rather disastrous day partly brought on by my own inability to manage simple arithmetic I am NOT entertaining this gentleman today!

...and stay out!

pensive hipster...

...with some impressive hair-age going on.

dogs in jumpers

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A chihuaua, in a pink jumper? Aren't there organisations out there to stop this sort of thing?

(see also 'clothes for dogs')

Happy 100th birthday!

THIS is what you'll get if you live to be 100. Gawd bless her & all who sail in her (who said 'off with his head'?)

(From 'Cartoon Kid Strikes Back' by Jeremy Strong with scrawls provided by my good self)

God's chewing gum & other stories...

At this point on a Friday I like to ponder some of the bigger questions...

Cartoon Kid Strikes Back! OUT NOW!

'Cartoon Kid Strikes Back' the 3rd in the Cartoon Kid series written by Jeremy Strong & illustrated by myself is published today!
There's police elephants, hippo dinners,hamster family fun,cake chaos & much more!

Get out of your chair & take a walk to your local independent bookshop & buy one!

- or else be a lazy arse & you can get it on the interweb

Impending Hastings rumble (w/ added noise)

...there I am, busy drawing unsuitable sound effects when I'm suddenly distracted by determined teenage boys en route to an impending scrap in Hastings town centre - happily I haven't been personally involved in one of these for many years (as the great PaulMcCartney&MichaelJackson might've said - 'I'm a lover not a fighter')

Unwelcome beasties...

Sometimes the temptation to go out & affix a cat mask onto a dog is just too irresistable!

Does this make me a bad man?

Animated promo - 'Simple Life' by Sam Frank

I'm very excited about being able to put a link to my brand new animated promo that I just completed for Sam Frank's debut single Simple life - you can see it here http://vimeo.com/stevemay/sam-frank-simple-life

New animation

I've just finished a new animated short - you can see it here

Tea & fags (& more bowl cuts)

Some more sketchbook flotsam from my recent bowl cut explorations. Also seems to have a certain retro feel harking back to that '60s / '70s behind the scenes footage where everybody seems to be perma-smoking in the workplace. Even the tea lady usually has a pipe or similar

Bowl cuts we have loved...

Lest we forget - the role of the pudding basin in tonsorial culture - we salute you!

Dysnumria

This was drawn especially for a dear friend's brilliant party on 11/11/11 taking in numerology,the bible, the Pixies, Doctor Who & a few silly animals - very much like a slice of my life really...

Synchronised swimming & lycanthropy

Be honest, who hasn't always wanted to know what would happen if a synchronised swimmer was ravished by a werewolf? They missed a trick in the 2012 Olympics I tell ya!

Colonels & fish paste

Drawn in response to a 9 year old's poem about a Colonel that smells of fish paste(!)

spectacular beard

It's too rainy outside. On the bright side , I've just seen a spectacular beard!