Sunday, June 1, 2008

A playwright writing comics?

As well as writing for TV, film and (the usual) theatre, over the last year or so I've been quietly working away on several comic projects.
This all came about after meeting master illustrator Colin Wilson. Colin is currently the illustrator of Star Wars 'Rebellion' for Dark Horse comics as well as illustrating the online comic of Bionic Commando written by Andy Diggle, which you can read here.

Colin and I have a few things in the pipeline (and hopefully I can talk about some of that soon) but I thought I'd put an image from one of our 'in progress' projects.


As well as the work with Colin, I have a number of things in the pipeline with Tom Bonin, including being luck enough to write an issue of his detective comic 'Dicks'. I will hopefully be able to post some of his awesome work soon.

The Example in the Weekly.

There was a nice feature on the Example, which is currently touring regional Australia, in the Diamond Valley Weekly magazine today. Please note: my nose isn't this big. I was just very close to the lens.

The Example at the Frankston Arts Centre

I was fortunate enough to get along to the Frankston Arts Centre tonight to see my play The Example in Shorter and Sweeter. A really nice production with two great actors in Alan Flower and Sophie Cook. The Arts Centre itself was a bit of a surprise; the theatre was quite modern and seated 800. There was a very good house on the night too.