Showing posts with label Paradax. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Paradax. Show all posts
Monday, 18 June 2012
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You've recently seen Paradax in his fat Elvis years, below is a little seen appearance from his heyday. This 1987 Milligan/McCarthy story appeared in Strip Aids, a charity comic for London Lighthouse (England's first day-care centre for people affected by AIDS)
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Friday, 1 June 2012
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Brendan: "A little while ago, I was looking at some Paradax! comics and wondered where he'd be now."
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Tuesday, 15 May 2012
5:17 pm | Posted by
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Some wallpaper I knocked together. They are 1920 x 1080 but if you want a different size or colour let me know in the comments below.
(with an added Windows 7 sidebar)
Friday, 11 May 2012
8:07 pm | Posted by
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Due to some health problems I received as a Xmas present the Blog has been a bit quiet the last few months, actually it’s been cold dead. Thankfully I haven’t shared the Blog’s fate, I’m still not 100% fit but with the abundance of Brendan’s work appearing at the moment I needed to get up off the floor and start posting again.
You probably already know but Brendan currently has an all new series “The Zaucer Of Zilk” appearing in 2000AD. I read the first couple of episodes before Christmas and can’t wait to read the story in its entirety. Brendan informs me the final episode was completed last week and if things go well a sequel may appear. Below you’ll find some promos, hopefully there’ll be more Zilk artwork appearing on the Blog soon...
In other news: ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’ finally begins filming next month in Africa. If you don’t know, Brendan spent a couple of years co-writing and designing the movie with original Mad Max director/screenwriter, George Miller. Fury Road has had a long and troubled production, shooting was scheduled to begin several times since 2003 but abandoned due to everything from the Iraq war to flowers blooming early. Brendan’s been promising to show me the designs for over a decade now, so now finally we can all get to see them. One those lovely hardback ‘The Art of…’ books would be perfect.
Some of the Mad Max vehicle designs have leaked out online. The main one being ‘The Gigahorse’. Neither the design or the concept drawing below are by Brendan and were done after he moved on from the project but they are in the style of his production artwork...
Finally some exquisite ink featuring everyone’s favourite beer drinking slob of a superhero...
I know things have been quiet lately but from this point on I’m determined to see the site grow and expand, definitely not fade away. So spread the word that the Strangeness of Brendan McCarthy is back... again
You probably already know but Brendan currently has an all new series “The Zaucer Of Zilk” appearing in 2000AD. I read the first couple of episodes before Christmas and can’t wait to read the story in its entirety. Brendan informs me the final episode was completed last week and if things go well a sequel may appear. Below you’ll find some promos, hopefully there’ll be more Zilk artwork appearing on the Blog soon...
In other news: ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’ finally begins filming next month in Africa. If you don’t know, Brendan spent a couple of years co-writing and designing the movie with original Mad Max director/screenwriter, George Miller. Fury Road has had a long and troubled production, shooting was scheduled to begin several times since 2003 but abandoned due to everything from the Iraq war to flowers blooming early. Brendan’s been promising to show me the designs for over a decade now, so now finally we can all get to see them. One those lovely hardback ‘The Art of…’ books would be perfect.
Some of the Mad Max vehicle designs have leaked out online. The main one being ‘The Gigahorse’. Neither the design or the concept drawing below are by Brendan and were done after he moved on from the project but they are in the style of his production artwork...
Finally some exquisite ink featuring everyone’s favourite beer drinking slob of a superhero...
I know things have been quiet lately but from this point on I’m determined to see the site grow and expand, definitely not fade away. So spread the word that the Strangeness of Brendan McCarthy is back... again
Saturday, 22 October 2011
7:54 pm | Posted by
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Brendan: The art dealer Albert Moy has asked me for any more artwork I may
have... I spend a day recently unpacking storage boxes and found some
really old gems I had forgotten about.
I came across a Paradax! and Zenith picture done around the time I was designing Zenith for 2000AD. It was pretty smudged as I had done it in pastels. I cleaned it up and then fixed it. Not the greatest drawing, but still, a collectable curio.
There's a nice A3 Paradax! drawing too.
Also, there 's a coupla sketches I did for Arkham Asylum when, for a brief moment, I was the artist on the project... It got put back and I was doing a movie or something and wasn't available. Anyway, Dave McKean did a far better job that I could have.
Even found an unpublished drawing from the 'Sometime Stories' era and some Freakwave scribbles. And some blue line color pages from Strange Days 2.
It'll all be up for sale from Albert (www.albertmoy.com) in about a week I'd say.
Saturday, 15 October 2011
5:04 pm | Posted by
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Brendan: Albert Moy has aquired another cache of my original art. I'd say he's pretty much got most of my remaining originals now and is now the main agent of my comic art. Much of the art for sale has been drawn over a thirty year period and features collectible rarities like Zenith design pages (with Paradax in the pictures). Abandoned try-outs for Batman and Joker, and designs from unmade comic series like YoYo and Travesty. The standout piece is probably a very large Jack Empty color drawing (best Paradax villain) from an exhibition of my work staged at UKAC in London, twenty years ago. There's a some nice Paradax headshots too. And the first design drawings of Mirkin The Mystic. Even a few Freakwave drawings from the early 80s.
Go to albertmoy.com where you can look up all the new material available.
Saturday, 30 July 2011
2:53 pm | Posted by
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Brendan: A very early sketch of the character that would evolve into Paradax.
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Saturday, 26 March 2011
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Lost for 25 years and recently rediscovered by Brendan...
The Strangeness of Brendan McCarthy: New artwork every Saturday
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Wednesday, 15 December 2010
2:17 pm | Posted by
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It's almost that time of year. This year's Christmas Greeting from Brendan is a vintage card he drew back in 1985 of the infamous slacker superhero, Paradax!
Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas
Wednesday, 24 December 2008
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JohnMK: Some more seasonal themed McCarthyism. A couple more of Brendan’s digital Xmas cards and an illustration from the 1989 Christmas issue of Speakeasy magazine. Merry Christmas!



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