Sunday 13 May 2012

Kono & me






drawing i did for the 2000ad comic boards comp. last month, showing some members of Bad Company kicking some Krool Ass.


Friday 25 November 2011

James Newell repanels "Now I Can Die Easy" from B. Krigstein Comics

Original panel from "Now I can die easy", story by Unknown (Hillman
Periodicals), art by Bernie Krigstein, restored by Greg Sadowski, from
B. Krigstein Comics, Fantagraphics Books.
Repaneled by James Newell, with Steve Guttenberg from "Cornered!", Ted
Danson from "Getting Even with Dad", Tom Seleck from "An Innocent Man",
baby stock photo was left on by doorstep by a Stork.
http://repaneled.blogspot.com/

Friday 24 June 2011

Peter Falk, passed away today at the age of 83

Peter Falk, passed away today at the age of 83, he will be mostly
remembered for his brilliant portrayal of the TV detective Lt. Columbo.
"just one more thing", some more drawings
http://meanwhilecomicpages.blogspot.com/2011/02/columbo-drawings-for-fanzine.html

Sunday 10 April 2011

it was halloween


5 year old Cormac Roberts is the author of "it was Halloween" drawings by James Newell, enjoy!

the book can also be purchased at he following link:
http://www.lulu.com/content/paperback-book/it-was-halloween/11169432

Tuesday 25 January 2011

James Newell repanels The Black Hole Mission from 2000 AD #557

"repaneled" posted my effort details below:
Original panel (original publication scan in black & white)
This is Hammerstein and Terri from The ABC Warriors, story The
Black Hole Mission, originally published in the British comic 2000ad
Prog. 557 in 1988.
Created and written by Pat Mills (He is a comic GOD) and drawing by
Simon Bisley (this series was Simon's first professional comic work and
it pretty much blew my mind).
http://repaneled.blogspot.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Mills
http://simonbisleygallery.com/

Friday 21 January 2011

Friday 7 January 2011

[Fwd: dot screen test]

this is a tonel dot screen test and the origional penciling of a
character i drew for the Hibernia Comics "Tales from the Emerald Isle" a
2000ad inspired comic fanzine, http://www.hiberniabook.blogspot.com/
writing credit on the character goes out to Shaun Avery.
never had the time in the end to render the story in this way due
to the deadline, so i went with the pencil's in the end.

Maeve the Many-Armed, page 2

this is page 2 of 6 of the Maeve the Many-Armed story from the 2000 ad
fanzine "Tales from the Emerald Isle" written by Shaun Avery and drawing
by myself, James Newell.

Monday 6 December 2010

Tales from the Emerald Isle

Hibernia Comics has just released "Tales from the Emerald Isle" a 2000ad
inspired comic fanzine using some of the irish characters that graced
it's pages over the years, featuring the talents of Matthew McLaughlin,
Bryan Coyle Johnny McMonagle, Dirk Van Dom, David Blankley, Richmond
Clements, Shaun Avery, James Newell, David Withers and Alan Nolan, with
design by David Withers and Mike Carroll.
It cost €3.50/£3.00, Postage to Ireland(NI&ROI) is €1.50, To Britain
£1.50, Europe and the USA €3.00, any quarrier's you can drop David a
line on
hiberniabook@eircom.net or for Paypal doomlord@eircom.net will suffice.
http://www.hiberniabook.blogspot.com/

Saturday 23 October 2010

BOOM! 24 hour comic by James Newell


my 24 hour comic from this year, at the central hotel, Dublin, only got 7 pages
done in a 20 hours, all penciled and i managed to conclude the story, so i`m happy.

Sunday 8 August 2010

monkey on my back 2

untitled illustration project

Monday 12 July 2010

Harvey Pekar R.I.P.

Harvey Pekar died today in Cleveland, United States. He was the writer
of the autobiographical comic series "American Splendor". R.I.P ya grouch!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_Pekar

Tuesday 22 June 2010

Sooner or Later comic strip by james newell

james newell's contribution to the nu-earth 2000ad fanzine

Sunday 13 June 2010

nu earth 2000ad fanzine


cover by Will Kerkby





failbot press's "nu earth" is a 2000ad fanzine by Will Kirkby & WJC with
a number of other contributers listed below, check out their links.
Free copies are available through Subcity Galway & Dublin & Forbidden
Planet Dublin or if you would like to be posted a free copy, contact me
through the comments link (first 5 copies will be posted completely free
with in ireland & the UK, after that i will have to charge postage)
Will Kirkby
http://chamonkee.livejournal.com/
Matthew Taylor
http://www.baphomatt.com/
Emma Douglas
http://fueledbytea.livejournal.com/
WJC
http://warwickjohnsoncadwell.blogspot.com/
Andrew Cheverton
http://angrycandy.co.uk/
james newell
http://www.meanwhile.tv

Ryan Taylor
http://theboytaylor.blogspot.com/


Paul Fryer
http://dogtopus.blogspot.com/
Matthew Craig
http://thematthewcraig.com/
http://www.bostinheroes.com/
Richard Johnson
http://richjohnson.co.uk/
http://www.bostinheroes.com/
Naniiebim
http://naniiebim.livejournal.com/

Sunday 9 May 2010

Friday 19 March 2010

pumpkin heads

this poster/signup sheet was illustrated for a local open pumpkin
growing competition, the final printed version was colour separated
into four channels with a large dot screen to give the effect of
classic comic colouring and printing.

Saturday 20 February 2010

Spun

Spun, a children's book by Emma Fisher and Thorey Mjallhvit, tells the
story of Ciaran & Piedva the spider and all the wonderful friends they
meet during the evenings bath time.
meanwhile.tv got involved to produce 6 dummy copies to help find a
publisher

Sunday 10 January 2010

back to the rust

untitled project

Monday 12 October 2009

sci- fi illustration by james newell

sci- fi illustration by james newell

Saturday 18 July 2009

James Newell covers Metal Hurlant 9

via Covered by Robert Goodin on 7/16/09
Original cover by Jacques Tardi; 1976 Les Humanoïdes Associés. James Newell's website is here.

Tuesday 14 July 2009

engage art studio invite design

designed and illustrated by james newell for engage art studio

Tuesday 30 June 2009

spider-gent


Oh! where in the blazes is that man now? He has been acting rather
peculiar since bitten by that gastely spider!
. . . illustration, design & publications from the studio's at meanwhile.tv