Here's a 48-sheet I worked on with Adam Crane at The Hive. Aisake Ó hAilpin looks like The Rock! In fact, the other guys even look a bit scared of him. Photo by Adrian Stewart.

So here are a few ink scamps I've been fiddling about with - quite a few need colouring in. More to follow. Initially, I planned to draw enough to take a gallery space - there's certainly enough political material out there - but I'm not quite sure I'm cynical enough...

COWEN... WORDS FAIL HIM.

Whoah! I haven't been here for quite a while.

It's been really very busy with work completed for Boys & Girls, PCC, The Hive and Y&R.

Recording Ernest Cribben with Pat Laffan tomorrow at Mutiny.

More surreal scamps will be posted this week... mostly featuring Dear Leader.

Still in the shake-down for BBC project

Another week, more work to do. Everyone's still massively 'up' for this project. It started almost a year ago with a tentative submission, then we found out we'd beaten tons of guys to the top of the heap and since November the scripts, storylines and visuals have been on steroids/ EPO. We now have just three weeks to think more, write more and push the project as far, as dark and as action-packed as we can.

SMALL FOCUS GROUPS

We recently did a series of Monster Park focus groups with discerning six year olds in Devon and Brighton.

The feedback was incredibly positive and also very helpful - kids want to see vampires, werewolves and even bogies turning into boogie-men.

We thought we might've overstepped the mark with zombie babies, but they proved a hit too.

I think I underestimated how much kids like intelligent gore and action.

GOOD START TO NEW YEAR

So far, so good.

This week kicked off with Henry and I doing some intense work on the series' narrative.

It's been an interesting process. No doubt, when I finish writing it up we'll find some inconsistencies to iron out - after all, there's always going to be some thematic entanglement we haven't forseen.