Tag Archive | "Rob Davis"

I went down to the crossroads…

Sunday, May 8, 2011

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It is 100 years today since the birth of one of the greatest musical figures to come out of the 20th century, master of the blues Robert Johnson. A stunningly innovative singer and guitarist, legend had it that he went to a rural crossroads at midnight to sell his soul to the Devil in return [...]

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Rob Davis – letting the puppet strings show.

Sunday, April 17, 2011

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Over at his blog, Rob Davis takes us through a little of the process involved in putting together his upcoming Don Quixote book. It’s out in September from Self Made Heroand it looks, frankly, stunning. “A phrase you’ll hear a lot when people discuss the styles of comic artists is “Raw or Cooked”, it’s self [...]

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Slang!

Friday, January 28, 2011

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Rob Davis mentioned on his Twitter that he’d recently unearthed some early self published comics he and his pal Sean Longcroft had made back in their misbehaving youth of drink, drugs and comics (not like the solid, upstanding, respected gentleman and pillar of the community that Rob has developed into today, of course). There are [...]

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Rob Davis gets inside soaps….

Monday, January 3, 2011

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Over on his Dinlos and Skilldos blog, Rob Davis posts the results of a year’s worth of labour from the pages of Inside Soap magazine. This is just a small crropped section – lots more at Rob’s blog. I only recognise the Corrie references through the ladies of the household, but from what I know, [...]

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Best of the Year: Rob Davis

Thursday, December 9, 2010

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Today’s Best of the Year guest post comes from the very fine Rob Davis, gentleman, artist and now rapidly becoming something of a Cervantes scholar as he works on a graphic novel adaptation of what many book lovers (including me) hold to be one of the greatest novels of world literature, Don Quixote, for SelfMadeHero [...]

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Colour, perception, truth and Don Quixote

Wednesday, November 3, 2010

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Over on his blog Rob Davis muses on questions of colour and perception in art and applies it to his current work, adapting one of the great works of world literature, Cervantes’ Don Quixote, for SelfMadeHero (I am so looking forward to seeing that), following a debtate with a friend over how colour in art [...]

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Bastille Day

Wednesday, July 14, 2010

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Since today is the 14th of July (le quatorze Juillet), which marks the Fête Nationale – more commonly known as Bastille Day in the Anglophone world – we thought that was a perfect excuse (not that we need one, usually) to celebrate some of the great comics work which comes out of the French language [...]

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Watermen

Tuesday, May 18, 2010

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Rob Davis has been posting up some of his older work on his blog, including indulging his 1970s fetish with the likes of the Watermen (riffing on Dennis Waterman, that fine thespian of the age): (some frames from The Watermen, by and (c) Rob ‘where’s my Cortina and Sheepskin coat’ Davis, shamelessly borrowed from his [...]

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More Good Dog, Bad Dog fan art….

Sunday, March 14, 2010

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Two more examples of lovely fan art for Dave Shelton’s Good Dog, Bad Dog: (Paul Harrison-Davies) (Rob Davis) (via Super Comics Adventure Squad)

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The Observer / Cape “non-winners” – Rob Davis, David O’Connell, Luke Pearson

Saturday, November 7, 2009

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For an explanation of all this – see here. To kick things off, the first “non-winner” that I saw online a couple of weeks ago: Rob Davis. Rob put his excellent entry “How I Built My Father” up on his blog here, complete with a little explanatory commentary here. And then David O’Connell brings us [...]

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