Dead Beat

Dead Beat is a comic I wrote with Martin Woolley about a dead detective investigating the death of his dead girlfriend. It's on hold at the moment until some older projects get finished but here's a couple of test pages I made to try and figure out how the hell you put a comic together.

Ignore the nasty fonts. The text won't look like that in the proper comic.

Fantom and The Hands

Fantom and the Hands were conceived when me and Martin were trying to work out how short it's possible to make a murder mystery without it being rubbish. They are turn-of-the-century magicians who moonlight as detectives. Gabriel Fantom is a diminutive, womanising escape artist and The Hands is a blind, European sleight-of-hand expert.

It turns out that a murder mystery needs to be at least 20 minutes. I don't intend to make a solid 20 minutes of animation any time soon.