Ebay Auctions with a couple of days left. Still no new art

Hi Folks, just a quick post to say I'm getting rid of some comics on ebay as i have no room left. if anyone want them please go bid.

Punisher Kills the Marvel Universe

Sandman Presents: Lucifer: The Morning Star Option

Black Panther 1-8

Spawn the Undead 1-9

Inhumans 1-12 by Jenkins and Lee

Please excuse my seller name as I'm using the wife's account cause i dont have one.

If you hurry you might grab a bargain because they all start at 99p

March Website Updates

Just dropping bu to tell you about the updates to my website for march. There is a new featured site and a new featured webcomic. Go check them out here.

All the normal goodness still on the site.

Also I mentioned in a previous post about my new blog The Cool Web Comics List Blog. That's it just a bit of promo for it. Visit it please.

Later

NTH

New Blog - Cool Web Comics List

Just popping by to let you all know that I started a new blog which is solely for telling the world about the cool online comics that i come across. the first few months of the blog will be old news for people that have seen me post about my website because I'm starting with all the ones I've currently got listed on my site.

Anyway this blog will revert back to being a place i post my sketches.

Go here to see cool web comics http://coolwebcomiclist.blogspot.com/

Later

Nth

February Website Update

Hey folks,
just dropping by to let you all know that I've updated the site.
A new featured site and a new featured online comic.
you can also find all the usual goodness such as blogs and links to my favourite web comics.

I've added a dose of new web comics too see below for the latest additions.

 

 

 

 

Later people
Nth
www.ntholden.co.uk

2009 and feelin fine. . . .

Some cool web comics that i read and you all really should. Go have a look and be sure to tell the creators that i sent ya. Enjoy!

Website update

Just dropping by with a little bit of update news. I've been all over the interweb and found some great artist blogs that I think you'll like. 

Well if you've arrived at my Blog it's not going to be for my writing ability or my wit. It'll be because you stumbled across my art somewhere and ended up coming here to see it or something along those lines. 

Anyway. . . . .

Go to my website to get the full effect of the blog list. . mixed in with my simple yet effective design or alternatively just click the blogs below.  I'm also gonna add them to the side bar thing over there.

Gelatometti
Ryan Ottley
Alan Tew
Tony Daniel
Francis Manapul
Ken Lashley
Brian Ching
Sean Galloway
Cliff Rathburn
Khary Randolf
Project:Rooftop
Dan Panosian
Dustin Nguyen
Roger Cruz
Neil Edwards
Kevin Levell
Kris Carter
Staz Johnson
Nate Bellegarde
Alex Chung
Mark Englert
Marcelo Braga
Ig Barros
Mark Robinson
Denis Medri
Michael Lopez
Joshua Middleton
Gene Gonzales
Phillip Rauschkolb
Michael Bills
Steven Gordon
Nolan Woodard
Dave Wachter

See ya all later.

The Dark Night

Look what i found. comin out on 8th of Dec. Can't wait.

This has been my favourite movie this year.

It'll be on my Chritmas List. what about yours??

Cool Web Comics Update

Just dropping by to tell anyone who's interested that I've updated the web comics section of my website. I've now got links to 12 of my favourite online comics. if you have some spare time i recommend checking them out.

Also on this page you'll find links to some of the best web comics communities, well worth a look too.

enjoy

Go here to see the all the web comics

My Comic Journey – Part 2: The Beano & Dandy

From reading the cartoons in the Sunday post I progressed onto getting the Beano and the Dandy. Both these weekly comics were filled with lots of 1 or 2 page stories featuring some really British comic book characters. Dennis the Menace (Not to be confused with his blonde American counterpart), Mini the Minx, The Bash Street Kids, Lord Snooty, The numskulls, Desperate Dan, Billy Whiz, Korky the Kat, Hungry Horace and various other. I even remember reading Bananaman in the Dandy.

I collected these for a few years until I discovered that the stories never seemed to change.
There was never any real progress with the characters. Every week there would be a set up, then the gag then normally some kind of moral. Although both these books were published by DC Thomson (the same people who publish the Sunday Post referred to in part one of this journey) the character never went anywhere. Don’t get me wrong I loved these for a few years but as I grew the books never grew with me. It was a shame really because some of the character that appeared in the Beano and the Dandy were pretty iconic. There’s even a statue of Desperate Dan in Dundee City centre.

I guess that now much of the stuff that these characters got up to would be considered totally and utterly non PC. Dennis the Menace was basically a bully who would beat up this little softie character every week promoting anti-social behaviour. I wonder if they have updated the series for today I bet Dennis would be on an ASBO and probably have a drug habit with a pregnant teenage girlfriend or something. As for desperate Dan I’m sure he used to smoke big cigars and his favourite food was Cow pie which had the horns sticking from the pie crust.

Oh the joys of my childhood, no wonder I turned out so messed up. Hah ha.
More information about the Beano and the Dandy can be found on DC Thomson’s website as well as on Comics UK

My Comic Journey – Part 1: The Sunday Post.

I don’t remember what age I was when I started reading comics, but I was very young probably about 5 or 6. Like most kids in Scotland in the early eighties my first real appreciation for comics came every Sunday when I would get a hold of the Sunday Post and get to see what Oor Wullie and the Broons and been up to.

On a Sunday morning I would get up and go downstairs always drawn by the smell of breakfast and coffee. My Dad would have been to the paper shop to get the Sunday Papers and rolls for breakfast. I remember the Sunday Post being a huge Broadsheet paper that made me stretch every time I wanted to turn a page. I would eagerly turn to the cartoons page where you had to then turn the paper on its side and would read the Broons’ then flip over and read Oor Wullie.

The Broons were a Scottish family consisting of the Mum, the Dad, 5 sons and 3 daughters or for those of you who care; Paw, Maw, Joe, Hen, Daphne, Maggie, Horace, The Twins and the Bairn. Oh and don’t forget Grandpaw. The family all lived together, I always presumed, in a flat and got up to lots of various capers. I enjoyed the Broons but to me it was the set up to getting to my favourite “Oor Wullie”
Wullie or William was a little boy who I always thought was around the same age as me, I had no idea at the time I was 5 or 6 that Wullie had been that age for about 40 years. The thing I remember most about Wullie was that he loved 3 things; His bucket, Fighting and fish and chips.

I think that this must be where my love of black and white artwork comes from.

More information about The Broons and Oor Wullie can be found here, here and here.
The Sunday Post is a Scottish Sunday Newspaper Published by DC Thomson.

Now this wont be all that popular of an opinion but the reason I'm not a huge fan of Frank Quitely's art is that it reminds me of the Broons and Oor Wullie. I think the style worked on those comical characters but I don't think it works to well on Batman or Superman. just me ranting a bit I did dig his Authority stuff though . .

Hey there,
Just thought I drop by and spread some information.
During one of my frequent visits to DeviantArt to check out what my favourite DA artist had been up to lately I came across a journal entry from BlasterKid(Rich Johnson). He asked was telling about how he got into collecting comics and asking others to tell him how they did it. It was interesting. I started to type my reply but before I knew it I had started rambling on and on about stuff I used to buy as a kid and the stuff I buy now. I realized it was too much for a journal reply and had the idea to do it on my blog.

I thought I could make a feature of it and have some pictures and reference links so that anyone who reads it could see my journey in comics and maybe go check out some of the stuff that makes me the fan that I am.

This will be my own journey so there will be stuff that I’ll slate and call crap but that’s just my opinion, other people may have found it amazing. On the other hand there will be stuff I’ll rave about and I’m sure that people will have found it really bad, but that’s part if the beauty of comics. There is stuff out there for everyone – like marmite!!

Without further ado lets get going.
Next Post it all begins.

Website Revamp

Been a while since I updated this Blog but thats all going to change.
Have revamped my website and its now the best place to go online for comics related stuff (Thats a big statement!) go check it out. . . . http://www.ntholden.co.uk

More art soon.

N T Holden

Online Comics

Just to let you all know that I've now got a selection of some of the coolest online comics linked straight from my main website. www.ntholden.co.uk
Some really cool stuff there that is well worth a read from Hero by Night to Bastard Swordsman I've picked some of my faves for both art and story. if you're not reading these already you should be. great fun.

Later
Nth

29-05-08 Even more art.

last couple for now. Enjoy.

Another Update Woooooo!

Just dropping by with another update. thats two in 2 days. a new record.

Enjoy the sketches.

Some Character Designs

These two pages are design concepts for an online comic i'm working on (don't worry. I'll announce it here when its online) hahaha like you care!!!

The first is for a character called Kain. He was badly disfigured as a child and wears the mask to hide his scars. He;s a cool character that i came up with years ago back in high school with my best bud at the time Alan Mac. Wonder what he's up to now? He had some great ideas for comic books. well they were great when we were 15 or 16.

Second character is called Lion. Been trying for years to come up with a better name but this one just sticks and suits. in my head anyway. He's and extremely powerful character who is super strong and pretty invulnerable with a healing factor type thing. He is also a were-cat type thing and he has the ability to teleport via his sentient living metal forearm.

Time for some new scribbles

Its been a while since i scanned anything. Been busy getting ready for my baby being born.
Only a week and a bit to go.

Oh and just a quick gripe. how come when people think you are artisic they also thing you should be good a decorating. . . . I know that aint true in my case.

This is some random stuff I've been drawing. been trying to work on the way i draw women. Been looking at some J Scott Campbell for inspiration.

found out a few weeks a go that Campbell is now on deviant art. Go check it here

Acrobat Fan Art

Just in to drop this on ya.

This is Acrobat for those of you who dont know.

He is the star of his own web comic, and a mighty fine webcomic it is too.

Go check it out here: http://www.drunkduck.com/Acrobat/

Go check out the creator of Acrobats Deviantart Page here: http://literacysuks1.deviantart.com/

Just passing by and thought i'd share this shit with you.
I'm calling it a Fuster cause its a cluster of Faces (see how clever I am)
anyway enjoy and comments welcomed.

Oh a quick shout out to Chemical Robotiks as he is my lone commentor so far. Go check out his blog. I was there and its pretty cool.

Without further adoo i give you my first fuster!!

TaDA!!!

Sketch fun 090408

Just some random sketchiness that has taken place over the last few weeks in the odd spare minute i get.

Enjoy.