Chip Charlton & Mr Woofles of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police

Here's your one and only sneak peek at what I'm working on for The Phoenix comic - a 4 page standalone adventure story about a new recruit and his dachshund partner. I've been very excited about doing this, and nearly have it all coloured and ready to send off.
Shall update you once I know which issue it'll be in.

Global Policy Dialogue on Sustainability and the City comic

Possibly my most interesting and unusual brief to date - to draw the proceedings of the day at the above event. Being in Edinburgh, it was also probably the furthest I've travelled for work. It was pretty tough going. Partly because adults are harder to draw than kids, teens or animals, as well as more easily offended. They are also offended if they get left out, so I just got on with the job. It was a bit like being a court artist, just not with brown pastel paper.

The resulting drawings are below, and the final 'comic' which everyone went home clutching is now downloadable too (see link at the bottom). The day itself was very interesting, with some great provoking arguements and xxxx-stirring; the image of the ostriches is meant as a prompt for a caption competition, following observations made on one panel member's passion for cars and consumerism as 'having his head in the sand'. Both were very eloquent and persuasive. I'm not sure how interesting it might be for anyone not there, or not interested in 'the city' - see what you think.









The downloadable version (click the badly cropped image below) also features the City Manifesto drawn up by the delegates on the day.

Townie Annual 2012

By Jim Medway in Paw Quality Conferencing Services

12 pages, published 3 APR 2012

Comic produced to document the Global Policy Dialogue on Sustainability and the City, March 30th 2012, organised by the University of Edinburgh and the British Council.

Another Playing Out linoprint

- Connor shows his age and gets stuck into making a 'crazy mask' whilst brother Kieran and mate Jamal look on with despair.

New look

Do you like the new masthead?
Ten points to whomever can name the inspiration.

It's part of my new 2012 sort your self out and get more professional and productive plan.

Bong Shop

Just spent 3 days carving at an A3 piece of lino. Blank Slate have agreed to publish my Playing Out comic as part of their Chalk Marks imprint, which means I finally have a reason to knuckle down and finish it. I'm planning to break up the narrative with 6 or 7 full page images done as linocuts; the above being one of them.

Merry Christmas 1964

Drawn from a photo of family friend Billy Browell entertaining the Medways in Bradford 1964, one image on a recently resurfaced roll of film taken by uncle John.
I drew this on a sheet from one of Grandpa Bob's old yellowing sketchbooks which I inherited.

Bodelwyddan Castle

I've realised that I spent pretty much all of this summer working on something, and then never got around to putting it up here, so here it is. This isn't all of it, but represents the main body of illustrations. Bodelwyddan Castle near Rhyl houses a selection of the National Portrait Gallery's 19th Century collection. Katy and I were asked to create a family portrait trail to make the experience more fun for kids. We devised loads of games, drawing and writing activities and open-ended questions, then Green Land Design did a great job of laying it all out and making it look like a neat desirable package.
I spent a lot of time researching the various figures portrayed in a number of the portraits, and collected images from their lives to work from. We then threw them together in an imaginary banquet, and let them show off about their various achievements and life stories.

Clockwise from the left - Ellen Terry, Amelia Ann Edwards, John Speke, Florence Nightingale, HM Stanley, John Gully, Grace Darling and James Brooke-


- and their accompanying images - (click to enbigger) -









combined to form this foldout poster 44 x 42cm -



To see the rest, including the kids activities and other nice drawings - please visit the delightful Bodelwyddan Castle and tell them I sent you.

This pen likes drawing girls -

Rejected design

- for John Rylands Library in Manchester, who were looking for a dragon to show kids and schools around. I seem to be doing a lot of 'tendering' for work nowadays which could all easily end up a huge waste of time and energy, thanks to the satanic bankers and smug Tories who've shafted the whole civilised society.
Got that off my chest.
(I'm not cross with John Rylands Library).

TeenWitch rides again!

Classic Paw Quality Comics' TeenWitch now available HERE to digitally downloadly for free.
In the pipes - Garden Funnies 1 & 2, plus Comical Animal vol.1.