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Garen Ewing
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Illustrator, writer, comic creator. Julius Chancer, Curious Expedition 2, Arnie Bird, The Lost Expedition, Logos For Shows & more ... Also historian, karateka and Human.
And what's so funny about peace, love, and understanding?
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Garen Ewing @garenewing.bsky.social · Mar 6
I have ended the online preview of The Brambletye Box (for now). You can read more by becoming a Patreon supporter, if you're able, otherwise it's next stop: book! (um, eventually)
Strip: www.garenewing.co.uk/rainboworchi...
Patreon: www.patreon.com/garen
Montage image, promo for my comic strip - The Adventures of Julius Chancer - The Brambletye Box; showing Julius and Sir Alfred standing in the middle, and either side of them four panel extracts, cropped - a museum guard falling back as a person in Chinese costume leaps out; three men in black raising their bowler hats; a female opera singer in 18th century wig and dress, and a Chinese magician waving his hands over a ring of blue flame.
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A handful of these still available! #smallpressday
garenewing.bsky.social Garen Ewing @garenewing.bsky.social · Aug 17
It's #smallpressday and I still have a few copies left of 50zine - a collection of nearly 100 pages of my writing on comics, film, music, games and history I put together for my 50th birthday (well, 4 years after it ...)
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July 19, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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A video for the weekend: roughs, pencils and finished art from my adventure comic, The Brambletye Box.
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#comics #wip #pencils
The Brambletye Box comic - roughs to pencils to finished art
YouTube video by Garen Ewing
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June 28, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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Welcome to the public domain, GODS’ MAN (1929) by Lynd Ward. 🖋️📖 A haunting, wordless story told through woodcuts, this early graphic novel follows an artist’s Faustian bargain.

Read it here ➡️ archive.org/details/gods...
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#PublicDomain #PublicDomainDay #GraphicNovel #ArtLiterature
Title page of the graphic novel “Gods’ Man" framed by "Welcome to the Public Domain" text and graphic. Text reads: God's Man, A Novel In Woodcuts by Lynd Ward. Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith, New York. A woodcut illustration from the graphic novel “Gods’ Man. The figure in black in the foreground as two men in the background have their backs to him. A woodcut illustration from the graphic novel “Gods’ Man. A man with a peg leg sits, hands spread apart as he looks up. A woodcut illustration from the graphic novel “Gods’ Man. Close on the hands of people holding up their hands with varying numbers of fingers extended.
June 26, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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Comics Workshop went well at the the Forest Row Festival yesterday. Here's my 'Anatomy of a Comic' hand-out I (rather hastily) made for a previous workshop a couple of years ago that remains quite useful.
Double-page spread of comics pages and panels showing various parts of a comic: panels, tiers, narration, balloons, establishing shots, close-ups, timing, sound effects, etc ...
June 15, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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@emmaillustrate.bsky.social Beautiful piece of art in your new newsletter. Good luck with it!
May 10, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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Feel I should post some Star Wars art today - in fact I think I only have one thing, this invite I drew for my son and his friend's 5th birthday (7 years ago). #starwarsday #starwars
Children's birthday invite illustration - a line drawing, coloured, of two 5-year old boys dressed as Jedi with light sabres (one red, one yellow); Darth Vader's head looms in the background of space, also showing the Death Star, TIE-fighters, X-Wings and C3PO and R2D2.
May 4, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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A blog post on drawing cars, challenging myself, and why art is art and AI isn't ...
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#comics #drawing
Extract from a comic strip (The Brambletye Box, a Julius Chancer adventure) set in the 1920s, showing a black car following a red Mercedes SSK - panel 1: a side view driving past a sweet shop with pedestrians; panel 2: low point of view from alongside the black car with the SSK in front; panel 3: the SSK overtakes a cyclist a little close, who shakes his fist saying "Oi! Who d'you think you are? Henry Segrave?"; panel 3: a bird's-eye view of the road with cars on; two speech bubbles from the SSK saying "Stay cool, Julius, don't rush it" and "They're still on us!".
April 22, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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Comics Folk! We need your help. The Comics Cultural Impact Collective (CCIC) has written a report, asking the UK government’s Department of Culture, Media & Sport (DCSM) to invest in comics. We need you to help to make this the biggest action to support comics in UK. Please read, sign & share. 🙏✍️✏️✒️
myfanwytristram.bsky.social Myfanwy Tristram @myfanwytristram.bsky.social · Apr 17
New report from CCIC, asking @dcmsgovuk.bsky.social to back the comics sector: www.thecomicsculturalimpactcollective.org/The-Power-of...
Please SHARE, have a good READ, and if you like what you see, SIGN to show your support at lnkd.in/dmsKCc-d Thank you! #comics
April 17, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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In the most exciting creative news of my life, I can finally share what @rikworth.bsky.social and I have been hard at work at for the past year.

PETS TELL TALES: ANCIENT EGYPT from @hachettechildrens.bsky.social will be on bookshelves in July & is available to preorder NOW! 👉 geni.us/PetsTellTales
Cover art for Pets Tell Tales: Ancient Egypt featuring a pharoah anxiously holding open the jaws of a hippo with his legs. A falcon swoops between his legs, a cobra snake is wrapped around his arm and a baboon shoots a spit ball at him from behind some reeds - where a dog, ibis bird, cat, and strange dog-like Set creature also look out from. Pyramids are seen in the distance and the sunset sky fades into stars above.
March 18, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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' Sentimental ' is 20 years old today 😮🎉 !! Recorded in Italy & London I was looking for a band sound & playing around with added orchestration . A happy step to where I am now ❤️ Check it out , it's a real hug of an album 🎶 😊 ❤️ Love Tanita
#recordcollector #recordstoreday #singersongwriter😘 #London
April 13, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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My friend Mat Humphrey's new card game - Chickens 'n Aliens!
#cardgames #gaming
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYqQ...
Chickens 'n Aliens game - A quick run through
YouTube video by Mat Humphrey
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April 11, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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I appear to be losing friends on Facebook. After a very short investigation I discovered it was me, unfriending people who persistently create and post AI images. Quite the epidemic. But case solved.
Montage of horrible AI slop images with the words 'A.I. ART IS POLLUTION" across it in red.
April 8, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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'Fine Food Digest' cover from 2023; prep-work and final cover. #illustration #magazineArt
Six frames showing development of a drawing showing a street market: rough sketch outline, shaded rough sketch with more detail, perspective guides, pencils, inks and final colour art. Cover for Fine Food Digest magazine, Aug 2023, colour line art showing a street market, people milling about, several stalls, each with a canopy of a different national flag (Spain, France, Japan, etc.)
April 8, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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Marvellous little film about a boy visiting Hergé at his studio (we also see Bob de Moor, I think) in 1979 and a very grey and wintry Brussels. Love the Thompson Twins wandering around as well.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFeD...
TINTIN CHEZ LUI
YouTube video by Tintinomania
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March 27, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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Save the date! We're celebrating 10 Years of Small Press Day on July 19th, 2025. smallpressday.co.uk
March 26, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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Today is the big day! 🤖🥳🎉

From 9am ET / 6am PT / 2pm CET you will be able to buy Mother Machine!

And until April 9th you can get a free FLC to expand your experience!

store.steampowered.com/app/1555980?...
Mother Machine on Steam
Climb, jump, and explore procedurally generated alien caves in this 1-4 player co-op action-RPG platformer. Customize your cute gremlin, embrace the creative chaos, and unlock a vast array of mutation...
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March 26, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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Today's an old work for Nord Games I loved <3 the Forest Oracles <3
March 26, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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Queen Yolande🪄🔮🌿
I just realized that one of the latest illustrations I painted for Dungeons & Dragons has been revealed!
©️Wizards of the Coast

#art #illustration #fantasy #dnd
March 22, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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Back in December I started work on a triptych homage to a favourite comic book series, Asterix. This is watercolours, acrylic gouache and marker pens. Asterix is a Franco-Belgian comic that first appeared in the comic Pilote in 1959 written by René Goscinny with art by Albert Uderzo.
Illustration. A short helmeted man strides through a forest, waving to the viewer he is carrying a wild boar. In front of him walks a happy little white dog.
March 23, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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Initial rough sketches for all 'The Lost Expedition' game cards (2016, Osprey) #gaming #cardgames #boardgames
Spread of rough sketches for all 56 cards in The Lost Expedition card game, thumbnails in pencil, showing various game events in a jungle (Amazon) environment - tribes, bugs, snakes, poison, accidents, wild animals, terrain, etc...
March 20, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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Post your favourite Doctor Who. Wrong answers only:
Professor Calculus from the Adventures of Tintin pointing his brolly forward.
March 19, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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Ghost Train revisited.
March 19, 2025 at 7:32 AM
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Man nothing makes you realise the truth of A Picture Being Worth A Thousand Words like having to laboriously type out alt text for some dumb thing you drew
March 17, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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📢 Mother Machine finally has a launch date!! 💥
Get ready to cause chaos and explore everything the game has to offer on 🎉 March 26th! 🎉
Curious? Watch our brand new announcement trailer now! ✨
youtu.be/oQT6vGuqRrs
Mother Machine Release Date Announcement
YouTube video by Maschinen-Mensch
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February 25, 2025 at 5:16 PM