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on January 14, 2022 at 5:43 pm

Hi there! Welcome to the home of Lloyd and the Bear, Fenton Hud – Member of F.A.C.T, and other odd happenings that come in to my mind!

I’m not great at posting but it’s my intention (and hope) to keep you up to date with my work on all these comics along with any other projects I’ve got going on!

And hey, if you find I’m not posting enough let me know! (I could do with a good nudge every now and again!)

Scroll down to check out my different posts or click on the blog buttons if you’re after a particular topic!

If you’d like to check out some of my work click on Lloyd and the Bear and Fenton Hud then click on the previews section! And if you’re liking what you see then please follow me on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram!

Bear hugs!

New style, new logo!

on May 18, 2026 at 5:20 pm

Okay, not really but I’ve been trying new styles purely for an advert in issue #4 of Fenton Hud.

I don’t want to reveal the setup as it’s a bit of a big one that I want people to experience when you read the book but it leads in to this advert for the new (no, really, this is fake, Fenton Hud book).

My initial idea was to actually make a plasticine model of Fenton and having him posed in front of a London landmark (I swear my better half gave me side eye when I mentioned the idea) and the concept would be very 80’s Miami Vice vibes but also giving the idea of a big Hollywood blockbuster. So with that I came up with this logo;

(I swear that the Fenton Hud bit wasn’t meant to imitate the Star Trek The Next Generation logo but the more I looked at it I was like ‘heeeyyyyy’).

Anyways, as the idea bounced about in my idea I had a different image in my head which was going to be more scratchy and (god help me for saying this as I’m a 51 year old dude) ‘street’. *cringe*

So I did a really rough sketch, scanned it and just worked away on it and from that I realised I needed a new logo that more suited the end result of this new iteration of Fenton and came up with;

I’ll totally admit I went through some of Jim Mahfood’s gorgeous work for inspiration on this. After that I found a great photo I’d taken around Whitehall which, although not very landmark-y in itself, I figured worked nicely for advert.

But hey, what do you think?

Oh! Announcement! On other (awesome, awesome, awesome) news we have a table at Sequential Scotland Comic Con! We had such a great time last year and it’s so amazing to be back there and in Glasgow again!

Anyhoo, with that news I need to get back to finishing the last five pages of Fenton Hud #4 so I can go and get it printed in time for Glasgow! More soon!

Bear hugs!

I’m sure it looked better than that!

on May 16, 2026 at 9:16 am

As I was working on issue #4 I’d find myself, weather I liked it or not, thinking ahead with how the book was going to go and I had this idea there’d be a big reveal of Fenton’s brother hiding in a caravan parked outside Trafalgar Square.

Like, what? No really, it would work! The big drive for this was that during lockdown I had taken a load of photos around London (a lot of which have been used in the Fenton Hud books) and I knew I had some photos of Trafalgar Square from really cool angles and showing Nelson’s Column and the place was empty and it would look soooo awesome.

Except it wasn’t and the photos I’d taken were these.

Not quite the super awesome shots I thought I had (although there is a photo of a guy with a falcon – or some kind of hunting bird- so that’s kinda cool!) but yeah, not what I wanted.

So I went back through my photos and found this great photo from Chinatown (although to be clear, a really depressing photo when you think how busy that area is at like any time of the day outside of lockdown!)

And what with this being the year of the horse and this issue being very horse-centric it made sense! Well, to me at least..? And here’s how the final page came out!

Like, you don’t really get from this page that the street was entirely empty in the original photo but then I did want to have the caravan being the main point of focus (and I guess that’s the important thing rather than dwelling on lockdown, right?)

But yeah, bit of a shift from the original plan but I figure it still worked. Also, as a sidenote every photo I’ve used for Fenton Hud I’ve removed any store names and the like and placed my own titles but I had no idea where to even start on this one plus I wanted to be clear that we were in London Chinatown so I left it as it is.

More soon including the completed revamp of a sketch I posted on socials last week!

Bear hugs!

Not another one!

on April 28, 2026 at 8:22 am

Okay, I know Fenton Hud is only a four issue limited series but there absolutely is a reason that I’ve been working on a new logo this last week!

(Seriously, there is a reason but has any other book done this many name changes and different logos in such a short time?!?)

And as per usual I’ve not quite come up with the end concept for what I’m doing with this logo but once I do I’ll be sure to post it here! So yeah, more soon!

Bear hugs!

But… what is Fenton Hud?!?

on April 19, 2026 at 11:11 am

I know the answer to this now! Wait… let me go back a bit and explain.

So back in 2019 I came up with the rough idea of Fenton Hud and how it’d be a book about made up ‘facts’. I also decided that I’d make it up as I went along with no clear plan for how an issue would end or what the overall story would be. Utter madness but I thought it would be a fun challenge and like with anything I do, once I have an idea I have to run with it.

So all good except when it came to trying to sell it and explain what the book was all about (while also not giving too much away as it’s all a bit twisty) it was dang near impossible! Like, it’s a shadowy government agency… um, kinda? It’s like X-files but with made up facts rather than aliens… oh, that sounds boring. It was born from a world that was obsessed with ‘fake news’… No! No! It’s not political! Honest!!!

As I said, a tough one. It sure would be handy knowing what I was writing about and although it took me three and a half books to get to that point I finally worked it out while coming up with pages 11 & 12!

At one time I thought of this book as a kind of love letter to lockdown and seeing London so quiet (which allowed me to take a load of photos which I then used in the book) but ‘love letter’ felt a bit off as it wasn’t exactly the best of times for a LOTTTTTTT of people.

But I now see that all along I’ve been doing this book to have a go at all thsee people out there that believe whatever they read without doing any investigation of their own. And even more so the people that also don’t believe facts that are actually legit. What’s that about?!?

(And there’s a LOTTTTTTT of those people too.)

So what’s Fenton Hud Member/Head of F.A.C.T.? It’s a dumb book full of fake truths and it’s up to you to believe it, laugh at it or maybe even wonder, hey, could that be true?

Now if you haven’t already and I’ve peaked your interest why not check out some preview pages by clicking on the link on the right hand side? And if you really like it why not pick up a copy? Please?

Oh, and that last sentence on page 12 about herd immunity? In a book where I said it’s all about fake truths? I did say ‘twisty’ earlier on didn’t I..?

Okay, more soon! Bear hugs!

Volume 5 is *almost* ready!

on April 1, 2026 at 8:22 am

I’ve been busy with tying up putting volume 5 of Lloyd and the Bear together with the cover for issue #20, some bits and bobs plus the main cover for the book.

The volume cover itself stayed pretty much with my initial plan although there were a few changes as I went along.

The first change was the interior shot on the back. I had initially stuck with the same size of box as for volume 1 but the only image I could find that had a link to the volume title didn’t even have Lloyd, Bear or their ship in it(!) As it turned out I had so much text to put on the back cover that I needed a smaller image and hey, I found one that worked (I’m telling myself it was meant to be!)!

Then came the front cover and I’d put everything together and was about to colour it when I realised I’d missed Limel Lum (the orange dude) who’s kinda important as he’s been cropping up in various issues since pretty much the start!

Another change was that Grizzle’s cloak was originally purple as in issue #16 but as everything around him was also purple I switched it up by making it green. And hey, he sure looks like he’s been shopping at the same cloak store as Doctor Doom, yeah?

So after all that and having finished the colouring I realised I wasn’t happy with Bear looking up rather than facing out of the cover. My initial idea was to have a real movie-esque hero pose but it looked weird with Lloyd looking out the way and but not Bear so I changed it.

I’m really happy with how this came out – oddly enough I think my favourite thing is the colour of the Shoal’s cape on the back cover and how it creates a nice space for the ‘previously’ text.

So what’s next? I’ve just finished the bonus strip for this volume which I was going to keep secret but kinda want to talk about (as I can’t keep my mouth zipped!) so I’ll post about that soon and then I need to get to colouring issue #20 which is going to be a big one!

More soon for sure! Bear hugs!

PS. With Grizzle’s change of cloak I went back and corrected it in issue #19 where he crops up but left him with a purple cloak back in issue #16. Hey, he can have more than one cloak, right?