Batman

In the current issue of SFX magazine the best Sci-fi mag in the world (OK I'm biased) as well as my usual spot illustrating The steamed Nick Setchfields words for Deveopment Hell I was asked if I'd like to do 6 drawings of Batman for an article about what it would really be like to be the Caped Crusader.

They didn't want my usual cartoony line and wash style but something a bit more Neal Adams so I thought it would be a good opportunity to try out my new skills as a digital painter. And here are the results. I was pretty pleased with how they turned out though Batman's torso on the Psychiatrist one is a bit shit. I should have just modelled his rippling muscles myself. Yeah, right! We all have our delusions.

A fan at last!

I very rarely get any feedback from all the comic strips and cartoons that I do for various publications but this response from a reader of SFX magazine makes up for it. Glowing, I think, is the word. Posting this is shameless trumpet blowing but why the hell not?

From the SFX inbox:

Please convey my note of appreciation to your amazing ilustrator of the "Alien Bestiary" (SFX 222, pages 64 and 65), Mr. Paul Cemmick, it was a superb piece of art and one of the most beautiful things I've seen in your magazine, in over 10 years of reading and subscribing it.
Even that nuissance of a character, ALF, was superb!
I imagine the drawings were done in India Ink, but they were so vivid and so detailed, I could almost smell the hydrosulphuric acid dripping out of the Xenomorph from "Alien"...

Well done!


GASPAR GARÇÃO
Portalegre, Portugal