A piece of Brendan's original comic book art from Shade The Changing Man in a group show at uber-hip La Luz de Jesus gallery in Los Angeles. The exhibition is called Pop Sequentialism, and is curated by Matt Kennedy (link).

Now over to your weekly dose of McCarthy splendor...

Brendan: The FEVER trees picture is a page of sketches that I did for the FEVER book. Just came across them a month ago again. It's me trying out some ideas that never made it into the comic. Albert Moy's already got the page for sale! (link)

Brendan: INSPEKTA CATHEDRAL is a new story I'm working on... I've got quite a few of them stockpiled, but the problem is, where to publish them? Most indy companies don't have any money -- or want to keep lots or all the rights if they have... So the deals available have really gone downhill since the days when I was more active in the industry.

From this week's 2000AD...

Brendan: Two pages of the original sketches for "Mirkin The Mystic", the very British "Oscar Wilde meets Dr Strange" character created by myself and Peter Milligan in the 1980's. I've added a bit of digital jazz on the right hand image just to tart it up a bit. It was in a bit of a sorry state.

These are now with comic book art dealer Albert Moy and are available now.



A couple of recent McCarthy related links...

Over on Mark Cardwell's Bad Librarianship blog Brendan talking about Graffiti art...

"Based on one of my own images: Street Toads, by Ben and Raph of the IFC. The lettering next to the image says, "toad", but is sprayed in an almost abstract whirl of shapes. I think it looks really fantastic... The image is over 40 feet in length. These young guys are the new spraymasters: The new Banksys and Failes. It's happening now -- an urban comics and graffiti fusion"

More original Brendan McCarthy artwork on sale. Visit Albert Moy's site for more details...

Colour rough for Brendan's upcoming Dredd cover

The new Facebook home for 'The Strangeness of...' is:

Pitch drawing for Brendan's new Judge Dredd zombie story, 'DeaDredd'. Appearing in the May issue of the Judge Dredd Megazine

Brendan: "Here's an image of the cover of Sometime Stories number 2, incredibly rare, it turned up recently and I snapped a picture of it on my camera phone. I hadn't seen it for about 20 years... Brett Ewins now has the original safely locked up in a padded bag in super-secret laser-protected vault.

Although we actually wrote and drew two issues, the first one was the only one published. Then the publisher went out of business. Nothing of the second one was ever seen. Until now."

More info about Sometime Stories here

Lost for 25 years and recently rediscovered by Brendan...

You won't have to wait several decades for Brendan's next Judge Dredd story, because coming this May is 'DeaDredd'. I've read the full story and personally I rate it alongside Brendan's classic Dredd strips. It also features a lot of Zombies so how can it get better! Written by Rob Williams the story will appear in Judge Dredd Megazine 311 in May.

There's no 'punch drunk Fat Elvis' period in Brendan's future as he continues to evolve and innovate. Also coming up a new Rocketeer strip for IDW, script by John Arcudi also a guest piece for the Scalped 50th issue. Also in development is a mysterious new series with ace Brit writer Al Ewing, called 'The Zaucer of Zilk'.

It's about time Brendan did a Creeper series for DC, don't you think?

On sale now from DC Comics, Xombi #1 with a variant cover by Brendan

Brendan: The Spark and Battery Girl were two electrically-powered superheroes that looked great, but I never did anything with them. A sort of cross between 'Electro' and 'The Steel Claw'. I thought Battery Girl was pretty sexy!

Brendan: Weird Spider-Man pastels... 'Lemon Dream Exit' and "Spidey-God' were two pictures I generated whilst doing the FEVER books for Marvel. Sometimes, after days spent drawing small B&W panels in a comic strip, I want to loosen up and be more expressive in colour and a bigger size. I never plan these type of pictures -- for me the fun is seeing what randomly comes through the 'automatic artistic ether'.

Apologies for the slight delay but I've been involved with an Arts Festival over the last couple of days. First up some more of Brendan's SOLO sketchbook followed by a better version of the 'Paraclesus Trey' pic

Brendan: "The Drunk Cat. It's self-explanatory... or not, I don't know... it's a drunken cat!"

New pieces of Brendan's original artwork now on sale from albertmoy.com