(TBP 2018) Joanna is drowning in the backwaters of 90s England. Her shitty seaside town is slowly suffocating her, and her childhood is lurking round every corner. Her boyfriend, Chris, has always been her rock, but now it feels like he's dragging her further down.

Just when it all seems too much, she finds a strange girl sobbing in the depths of a tidal cave... a girl whose pale light will lead Joanna on a path through devotion and loss, and out into the air.

You can read a 12-page preview of the comic on my blog here. This project was funded through Kickstarter in mid-2018.

(TBP 2019) blurb! The Kickstarter for this book is here!

(Sept 20th, 2016) The manga megahit Attack on Titan, reinterpreted by some of comics' top talent! Featuring original stories by a long roster of comic superstars such as Scott Snyder, Gail Simone, Faith Erin Hicks, Michael Avon Oeming, Paolo Rivera, Cameron Stewart, and Babs Tarr! This unprecedented, full-colour collaboration between East and West will be released first in English, making it indispensable for Attack on Titan fans and curious comic fans.

Our entry, FEE FIE FOH, was drawn by me, lettered and coloured by Paul Duffield, written by Si Spurrier and flatted by Dee Cunniffe. THIS IS VERY GORY, please click with discretion!

(July 1st, 2015) The aftershocks from the Fandemonium apocalypse are tearing the gods apart. Join us for a new arc of guest artists working alongside Team WicDiv!

(Jan 31, 2015) Self-published mini. It's about the day a unicorn meets a woodsman. It rhymes! Available to buy on my shop, ships worldwide. (Please note that digital versions are not available due to new EU VAT laws. I'm sorry about this.)

(June 26, 2013) Ever wonder what the super hero equivalent of a terrible soul-sucking talent-wasting temp job is? You haven’t? Oh go on. Actually, don’t. We’ve done it for you and written a story about it. This one. Existential horror turns cosmic horror as something emerges from the shadows of the past. It seems the Young Avengers have yet one more thing to worry about. Written by Kieron Gillen, me on pencils/inks/colours, with lettering and design by Clayton Cowles and a cover by series artist Jamie McKelvie.

The Phoenix is a weekly comic aimed at 8-12 year olds, though we know it has many adult fans as well! It contains standalone stories, prose fiction, serialised comics, puzzles, games and much more. Click here to check out The Phoenix and see how you can get hold of it too!

Here's some stuff I've worked on for it!

(Serialised from Issue #1 to Issue #35, Jan '12 - Aug '12) An all-ages adventure and mystery strip about a boy who wakes up on a deserted island with no memory of how he got there. Following clues left by a mysterious stranger that hints at the island containing a vast sum of treasure, everything seems to be going well for our hero. That is, until he notices the menacing shadowy figures following him everywhere he goes...

Some developmental sketches, and snippets/panels/covers from the comic:

(Issue #47, Nov '12) I was really happy to get to work with UK multi-talent, Neill Cameron, on this four-page chunk of loveliness! This is all about BALLET and RIVALRIES and... well, you'll find out when you read it!

Some developmental sketches, and snippets/panels/covers from the comic:

(April '14) Me and Neill Cameron got to team up again on this on-going adventure series! Neill is once again the story-master, and has created a fantasy series I think everyone could enjoy! We follow our heroine, 10-year old Tamsin Thomas, in her native Cornwall, as things in her life start to get WEIRD. REALLY WEIRD. AND POSSIBLY DANGEROUS. But it's cool; Tamsin can handle it! This series has been collected into trade paperback, please click here for details.

Some developmental sketches, and snippets/panels/covers from the comic:

(Dec '14) Here's the second installment in the Tamsin series together with writer Neill Cameron! It gets harder for our heroine. Never fear, we're fairly sure she's got this...! This series has been collected into trade paperback, please click here for details.

(May '17) Here's the third installment in the Tamsin series together with writer Neill Cameron! This time, Tamsin is up against some really, really devious individuals. But it's okay. She came to drink milk and kick ass, and she's right outta milk...

Totally not comics! Whoops. I made a series of four boardgames designed for younger players, with varying levels of difficulty. The instructions are minimal and the most you'd need to get your hands on before playing is one or more dice, some counters to set on the board (pennies! Peanuts! Your baby teeth! etc.!) and sometimes a paper and pen. It's for jumping right in and getting a taste of tabletop gaming in the middle of your comic!

(Phoenix #62 March '13) Who Can Steal a Scale from the Dragon? Play as knights in a test of valour (and silliness) pit against one another to fetch the Key from the dungeons, and unlock the Door to the Dragon's lair in order to steal the scale and prove you are the bravest! Will you make it past the traps? Will you avoid being turned into a troll? Can you reach the Door first...?

(Phoenix #66 April '13) The Race for the Sandwich of Glory! I know I get posessive around my sandwiches, and the Knights of Catastrophe Castle are no different! Play as Knights in an easy-for-all-ages race to the finish line for that last, amazing sandwich. Don't expect it to be all smooth sailing, though! There's stray magic bolts, sticky mud, and the mysterious VORTEX...

(Phoenix #83 Aug '13) Let's Settle this with a Joust! Time to ramp up the Medieval tension in this challenging Jousting game! The Silver Knight and the Golden Knight are trying to settle a feud over something WE might all consider a little bit trivial! Never fear, no real horses or lances are involved in this game... you simply need your wits to beat your opponent!

(Phoenix #109 Feb '14) It's Time for a Tourney! Let's go all out! Knight is pit against Knight in a thrilling flurry of battles. Beat your opponents and collect points in order to challenge the fearsome NIGHT KNIGHT. Will it be... *cough*... Night Night for you, too? Or can you become reigning champion of the entire realm...?

(Paperback/hardback November '11) Edited by Rob Davis and Woodrow Phoenix, Nelson is the anthology to end all anthologies. Made like an exquisite corpse, this book tells the story of Nel Baker from her birth in 1968, up to present day. Each year is written and drawn by a different UK artist, and as such forms not only a constantly evolving and organic storyline, but also serves as an unique look at the current UK comics creator scene. I made year 1992 and was very happy to be a part of this project. Published by Blank Slate, profits from the initial print-run went to the UK Charity Shelter. Click here to buy it from Blank Slate's site.

(Paperback March '11, Hardback Sept '11) Aimed at a mature audience, the creation of Fish + Chocolate was kindly supported by funding from the 2010 Arts Foundation Fellowship for Graphic Novels. The book was originally self-published as a paperback edition with a run of 300 copies.

Fish + Chocolate is now being published by SelfMadeHero as a hardback edition, at a slightly larger size than the original paperback. It is widely available either online through Hive.co.uk, or Amazon.co.uk, along with many other book-selling sites, book shops and comic shops. Your local shop should be able to order it in for you if they don't have it already in-stock.

"This trilogy... confirms Brown as a provocative and profound allegorist finding her mature voice and in total control of her precise compositions, colouring and narrative."
- Paul Gravett.

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For other news regarding Fish + Chocolate, please click here for its section on my blog.

 

The DFC Library: The Spider Moon - Book 1

(2010) Following the demise of The DFC weekly, the first season of The Spider Moon has been collected into hardback format as part of the first wave of The DFC Library, showcasing many of the titles that were available as part of the original comic. Features extra artwork and content.

The original run of The Spider Moon began in 2008, from Issue 1 to Issue 12 of The DFC. Season 2 ran from Issue 37, until about 2/3rds of the way through its run as the DFC was cancelled. A fair bit of the story, therefore, was unpublished. It was initially scheduled to be 5 series long.

In 2009, Playbox Theatre Company created a stage production of The Spider Moon. It was 10 shades of awesome! It was especially great, because the production ran through the whole storyline, so everyone finally got to see what the ending would have been like!

animation

 

Crown of Blood

In January 2013, myself and Paul Duffield were commissioned by the Tower of London to make a 2min animated short based around Edward V and Richard of York, aka. The Princes in the Tower. It was to be screened in the Bloody Tower, where they have the current display focusing around these two, as part of a drive to increase the modernity of the Tower itself. Whilest I'd never attempted animation before this, the actual topic was one I was very keen on -- it's an historical mystery that I've been very into since I was little. It was really, really awesome to get to do this for HRP - and the style we ended up using was really fun, too! It was informed by the space we had to work with: fairly dim, and on a lumpy wall. We picked this high-contrast style to make it stand out, and luckily, it looks pretty good screened up huge against a medieval wall! As of April 2014, the animation is still being screened there.

Developmental sketches:

Storyboards to final screenshots:

The finished piece:

The Firelight Isle 1: Heavenly Blue

After initially joining production as a colourist for the webcomic, I had the opportunity to stretch my animation muscles again with the promo video of the Kickstarter for The Firelight Isle 1: Heavenly Blue. I did a bunch of stuff on this one, mostly tweens and colouring. It was great to be part of a project that involved such talented individuals!

Screenshots:

The finished piece:

archived old works

 

List of old minis/shorts/self-published titles etc.

(2009) Coyote and the Giant 8-page adaptation of a Native American folklore tale for Accent UK's "Western" anthology.

(2008) A Day at the Beach 8-page short published together with The Monster in the Well for Bristol Comic Con, 2008.

(2007)The Monster in the Well Originally published in The Girly Comic #16, this was a 6-page wordless tale illustrated and written by me. Printed again as a mini-comic together with A Day at the Beach for Bristol Comic Con, 2008.

(2007) The White Tower It was the first comic I made after several years of not drawing comics! 5-page short about the Princes in the Tower. Published in Ilya's Best New Manga 2.

(2006) Station Drawn back in 2004, for my final project at uni. Originally 20 pages, was re-arranged into 10(!) pages and published in 2006 in Ilya's Best New Manga.