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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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Ah, ok - that's the US terms, these are the outside-of-US terms.
WeTransfer terms + conditions 6: Content (outside of US)
July 15, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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Is the WeTransfer thing true? This is what's on their website right now.
Screenshot of WeTransfer terms & conditions 6: Content.
July 15, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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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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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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Well, okay, not too close - but it immediately reminded me of it.
House used as the 'Captain's Mansion' in the film The Master.
April 11, 2025 at 11:21 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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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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Queen Maksjia, panel from The Rainbow Orchid (2012). #comics
Panel from a comic (The Rainbow Orchid by Garen Ewing) - a woman, a queen, in dark red robes and headdress, with bangles and jewellery, brushes aside a red curtain and looks out over the mountains and starry night sky; in the distance, a speck, seems to be a flying device of some kind with a flame glowing out of the top.
March 15, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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My four great-grandmothers for #internationalwomensday. I met three of them.
Four black and white portrait photos from the early 1900s of my four great-grandmothers in their younger years.
March 8, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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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.
March 6, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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March 5, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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Amusing note: a Greek newspaper took my A-Z Captain Haddock image off the internet, mistaking it for one by Hergé himself (!), and included it in a feature. A member of the @tintinologist.bsky.social forum spotted it, thinking it didn't look quite like a Hergé (quite right).
Drawing of Captain Haddock, fists in the air, hopping mad, hat flying off, pipe shooting out, bottle in his pocket. Caption says "C is for Captain Haddock (Caught Cursing)". Newspaper page in Greek, mostly text, with images of Tintin and Snowy, my Captain Haddock drawing, and a small extract from the troublesome Tintin in the Congo.
March 4, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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It's (astonishingly) 17 years since I did a comic characters A-Z on Facebook, with readers voting on which character I should draw every day. It was great fun and spawned a few other great A-Zs in its wake. Here's an image I made after it finished.
The title says "Garen's A-Z of Comic Strip Characters), with the image showing a load of comic characters (26 I guess!) - including Judge Death, Phone Bone, Usagi Yojimbo, Spider-Man, Hobbes, Wonder Woman, Obelix, Faceache, Dan Dare .... sorry for not listing them all!
March 4, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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I've just realised this wasn't the first album I bought with my own money - it was the first record, but it was a single. The first album I bought was this one (image) with my first ever pay packet (working for Neil Gaiman's dad), age 13.
Album cover for The Essential Jean-Michel Jarre - black, showing just Jarre's face half-lit, half in deep shadow,
February 27, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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Repost with the first album you bought with your own money.
Well, if you're going to be honest, @mikecollins99.bsky.social so am I ...
Cover for the single Y.M.C.A. by the Village people - showing the band in various modes of transport, a digger, a chopper, a car ... in bluetone colours.
February 24, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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Reminder: AI art is pollution.
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Collage of awful AI images - pretend photos, paintings, drawings - AI slop, with red lettering across the middle stating "A.I. Art is Pollution".
February 21, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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And while I'm on the subject - I drew this tribute to Valérian & Laureline on the occasion of Mézières' death in 2022. (My French publisher shared it on a BD group and I watched as the comments absolutely trashed it!)
Colour drawing of the science fiction comic characters Laureline (standing) and Valérian (sitting on a pink crystal rock), with a circle of purply deep space and stars in the background.
February 20, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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David is an amazing illustrator - he drew a comic I was writing for Cosmorama back in the late 80s/90s called The Tower and did the cover for issue 2 - he was incredible back then. (Steve Pugh on issue 3 there!)
Three comics piled onto the floor - Cosmorama from the late 80s/early 90s, the top cover by David Wyatt shows a short-haired woman with a large hoop ear-ring, cradling a blood-splattered sword and holding a rose against a pure black background.
February 16, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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Happy Valentines day x
Four square comic panels, extracts from the Adventures of Julius Chancer, each showing Julius Chancer getting somewhat flustered and looking uncomfortable in close situations with female characters - 1) a kiss on the cheek from Lily Lawrence; 2) Evelyn Crow getting in very close; 3) Florrie Elkin pleading with Jules, a hand on his chest; 4) a big hug from Lily.
February 14, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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As it's #DarwinDay, here's an old drawing (2011) of Mr. Darwin taking an Indohyus for a walk.
Drawing in greyscale of an elderly, long-bearded Charles Darwin carrying a book and taking an indohyus (a small doggish-piggish-rattish creature, an ancestor of whales) for a walk attached by a lead.
February 12, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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Greatly enjoyed 'Becoming Led Zeppelin', saw it last night in IMAX - incredible sound, really well put together documentary.
Poster for the documentary 'Becoming Led Zeppelin' showing the band playing on a white (well, cream) background, Plant and Page in red trousers, the title in matching colour.
February 12, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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Do you remember these as well? DC Superheroes magazine with covers by Alan Craddock - early 80s. I loved this WWII one.
Cover for 'The Superheroes' showing the JSA with Superman and Batman prominent, a German plane breaking apart in flames, and a big '1940' in the colours of the US flag.
February 7, 2025 at 11:01 PM