Hidden Beauties-Debuting at the London MCM Comic Con TOMORROW!

My brand new art book 'Hidden Beauties' makes it's debut on my table at the London MCM Comic Con tomorrow.

Priced at £4, the book also comes with a FREE 6x4 art print of your choice (I shall be bringing a lot!), and will be signed if desired. 

Hidden Beauties contains 15 fun digital impressionistic pin-ups from nerd culture. These include female versions of: Skull Kid (Skull Girl), Master Chief (Mistress Chief), a female version of Aku Aku from Crash Bandicoot, Boba Fett, Stormtrooper (Stormtroopet).

Popular female game characters have also been glammed up here, including Samus from Metroid, plus plenty more.

Previews of the book can be found in the previous posts on this blog, but I shall be showing off copies of the full glossy, high quality book at the MCM.

For those of you who cannot make it to the MCM this weekend, fear not! I updated my online store today, so Hidden Beauties can be picked up for £4 there too. The only difference is, you will be paying £2 for postage, unlike at the MCM. http://www.comicsy.co.uk/twinswordtrading/

Thanks to everyone who checks out my book and picks up a copy this weekend. Enjoy!

New Products In My Store!

I shall be at the London MCM Comic Con tomorrow and Sunday, and so I decided it was a good time to update my online store.

At the last con I exhibited at, I had a lot of people interested in buying my comic and art prints on my online store. Therefore, this time I've updated the store just before I go to MCM so that anyone who either cannot attend or does not have the money to pick up anything this weekend can browse my store and buy at their leisure from home.

Payments are completed via paypal. I keep my postage costs very cheap, and orders are sent out generally on the day of purchase or the following morning!

At the time of posting this, I am still adding a few brand new items, but there is plenty up already!

My brand new art book Hidden Beauties is also available to pick up from there (I'll sign it too!). If you cannot buy it at MCM this weekend, Hidden Beauties is £4 plus £2 postage!

Check out my online store here: http://www.comicsy.co.uk/twinswordtrading/

Thanks to everyone who has ever bought anything from my store. It means a lot!

Lewis 

London MCM Comic Con: Artists To Look Out For!

I shall be exhibiting my comics and prints at the London MCM Comic Con this weekend. Whilst I'd love it if you would all pop along to check out my work, pick up a copy of 'Royal' and stay for a chat, there are some excellent artists that I'd highly recommend checking out too. Find them all in Comic Village!

Kayleigh Powis (Pages and Panels/8-Bit Girl)
Co-handling my table is my Fiancée Kayleigh, a freelance journalist, copywriter and blogger for comics blog Pages and Panels and games blog 8-Bit Girl.

In between manning the stall, Kayleigh shall be wandering the Comic Village section to pick up brand new comics to review on Pages and Panels, and attending all the game-related goodness to blog about later on 8-Bit Girl.

Come over to my table at E8 if you want to come and say hi. Don't be afraid to share your comic with her!

Find Kayleigh at table E8
Twitter: @8_BitGirl & @PagesandPanels

Pauscorpi
Pauscorpi has great unique, fantasy style artwork that is definitely worth looking at. A friendly and approachable artist, make sure to check her out!

Find Pauscorpi at table AE12
Twitter: @Pauscorpi

Fiver Arts (Nathan Ashworth)
Ink and colourist for Jon Lock's Afterlife Inc., under the Fiver Arts name is also the highly recommended Tag series. Issue three is launching at MCM this weekend!

Find Fiver Arts at table E6.
Twitter: @FiverArts

Crom- Cristian Ortiz
Illustrator and creator of a great indie comic Golden Campaign. I love his art style, so please pay him a visit!

Find Crom at table F4
Twitter: @BITSOFCROM

Newfangled Press
Married duo Marisa and Deakin Brook pair up under the Newfangled Press name to offer you plenty of cute and quirky illustrations, comics, crafts and more. I personally recommend Marisa's The Armadillo's Tale small press book, and Deakin's Pet Peeves. 

Find Newfangled Press at table F9
Twitter: @DeakinBrook & @MarisaCherry

Failboat Press
Comprising of Naniiebim, Chamonkee and Nikki-Stu, Failboat Press sees a fantastic brand new comic collaboration. Check out the Birdsong/Songbird Anthology-the artwork is fantastic! They've also all proven to have success on their own too. I highly recommend giving them a browse online before you head on over to MCM!

Find Failboat Press at table G10-11
Twitter: @naniiebim, @chamonkee & @submarinecoat

Dead Universe Publishing
Home to a whole variety of great titles (Bertie Bear for instance), I recommend heading over to their table and browsing through their wares. You won't regret it!

Find DUP at table H7
Twitter: @DUPublishingUK

Jon Lock Comics
My con neighbour for the London Super Comic Con back in February, Jon Lock is responsible for the fantastic Afterlife, Inc series and The Six. If you want to have a great chat and peruse a quality comic, then Jon's your man!

Find Jon Lock at table H9
Twitter: @jonlockcomics

Mark Pierce & James Stayte
Two fantastic artists and all-round nice guys, Mark Pearce will be selling his Ronin Dogs comics (number three has only just been released!), whilst James Stayte has Big Jimmy to offer. Both are also expected to show off their prints and other works, so please check them out!

Find Mark & James at table K9
Twitter: @jamesstayte @markpearce82

Jess Bradley (now Bove!)
One of my earliest convention artist friends, Jess has been a regular at conventions for quite some time now. She'll be showing off her range of cute, quirky, weird and damn-right amusing wares. I'd definitely recommend checking out her ever-growing collection of small-press books. The Cute & The Weird 3 is her latest one!

Find Jess at table M1
Twitter: @VenkmanProject

John-Paul Bove
Colourist for a whole host of respected and well-established comic series (Judge Dredd and Transformers to name a few!), JP has also ventured into the writing world too with the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comic. 

JP will be showing off his fantastic colouring skills on his table, with a variety of prints to buy or peruse. As always, he'll also be colouring your sketches!

Find John-Paul Bove at table M2
Twitter: @wordmongerer

Nichangell Comix
Nich Angell has plenty of excellent comics under his belt. Look out for 7STRING and 7STRING/Afterlife Inc crossover The Heavenly Chord!

Find Nich Angell at table M7
Twitter: @nichangell

So there you have it! Check out these fantastic artists, and I look forward to meeting plenty of you too!

Lewis 

I'm at the London MCM Comic Con This Weekend!

Con time is here again already! It seems like such a short time ago since I was last at a convention (London Super Comic Con in February). 

Now this weekend I shall be at the London MCM Comic Con at the ExCel Centre (Custom House, if anyone is wondering what train station is the closest!). 

I shall be in the Comic Village section of the con, along with a whole bunch of excellent artist buddies. I shall be giving them a feature in my next blog post, so stay tuned.

So to anyone who is interested, I shall be selling and showing off my comic 'Royal', preview samples of my upcoming comics, unveiling my new art book 'Hidden Beauties' and presenting a plethora of new and old prints (geek themed for the con lovers, and some original stuff too). 

I am based at table E8 in Comic Village, and will be manning the table along with my Fiancé Kayleigh Powis of blogs Pages and Panels (comics) and 8-Bit Girl (gaming). Please come on over and say hi. We don't bite!

I look forward to seeing a lot of you there.

Lewis 

Voodoo and Lollipops

It has been a while since I have announced anything about my next comic.

Now that I have launched Twin Sword Comics, I shall be uploading all of my comics on that blog for free.  Shade was going to be the next instalment after Royal, moving the tale from England to Ireland, however after a lot of thought I have decided to stick to Royal for the moment.  

It seems that from all of my feedback people are interested most in seeing more of Pola.  Therefore I am going to be working on Voodoo and Lollipops.  Originally this tale was going to be a series of shorts for the Three's Company series but now it has taken on a much more epic tale.

Voodoo and Lollipops introduces a new character, Pola's old flame Aldercy.  Due to tragedy the two parted .  Now life throws them together again, both damaged by the past and thrown into an even darker tale than Royal how will the couple cope.

Meanwhile Janet must try and weave her way out of her romance with Mr. Bear, whilst Prince uses his world renowned hunting skills to find a drug induced psychopath by the name of Magpie.

Having found my feet in Royal, I now intend to use the knowledge that I gained from that experience to create Voodoo and Lollipops my 100 page graphic novel.

Until it is released I shall be putting it up in bite-sized chunks on Twin Sword Comics.

So watch this space for more Pola, Janet, Prince, crazies, demons, voodoo and most importantly lollipops!

Hidden Beauties: Boba Fett

Boba Fett gets a provactive female makeover for my upcoming small press book 'Hidden Beauties', as you can see below.

I will also be including my piece 'Stormtroopet', which you can view here:
http://twinswordtrading.deviantart.com/art/Masked-Ladies-Stormtroopet-349395886

Hidden Beauties will be available to pick up at the MCM Comic Con at the end of this month, then I'll be making it available on my Comicsy store thereafter!

Hidden Beauties: Splicer

It's been a few days of these posts now, so for those following them, you'll be well aware that I am releasing an art book called 'Hidden Beauties', featuring a whole host of male gaming characters turned women. Of course, each of their familiar masks remain.

Thinking about my favourite masked characters, I had to include a Splicer from Bioshock. The Bioshock games are fantastic, creepy and atmospheric. Of course, I tend to revert to the creepy side of art quite a lot, so this seemed quite fitting. 

So, here's a Splicer, minus the ripped and bloodstained clothes and bandages, but still so sinister.

Keep checking back on the blog for more updates on the book! It'll be available to buy at the MCM Comic Con on the 25th-26th May, as well as on my Comicsy online store once the convention is over. If you're interested in reserving a copy, please let me know by sending me an email!