I've finished my comic! It's the truth! It's actual!

GET IT HERE: The Demon Tomato - issue one


Actually it's a bit of a simplification of the truth. The truth is that issue one has been finished for ages and now I'm working on issue four. BUT, the point is, the first issue is now actually AVAILABLE for you to READ, should you wish to do that.

Yes, the Demon Tomato! Remember? The thing most of the drawings in my gallery are from.

You'll get a wonderfully glossy little book to read, which you can see for yourself here on the Demon Tomato blog. So if you were planning to read comics this month, why not add mine to the pile and see if you're keen.

To anyone who's working on their own comics right now and stuck in that part where you doubt you'll ever get it finished, I urge you to just get on and do it, because there's little better than having finished something like this. It means you can definitely do it again, for a start. Once you've finished the first one, it's not nearly as hard to do a second and a third.

The Demon Tomato is this: It's a fun and unfashionably happy adventure story, pieced together from true eye-witness accounts, revealing the truth behind that incident in the early 90s where that alien parasite turned a science teacher evil, and he built an evil robot, and there was a lumpy man trying to find a duck but the ghosties kept stopping him, and in the end the human race was wiped out by alien warlords. You probably remember.

It's a bit like one of those old British comics like the Beano or Buster, where it's a different character on each page, except, more like an ongoing story, sort of. It's a lot of silly nonsense is what it is. Read it, it's a good laugh. Go on.

Go on! I promise it's pretty good. I tell you what, I'll start posting some of the pages I'm sketching out now, but you have to read the actual comic in return.

If you live in Manchester or Newcastle, you can just pop over to Travelling Man - it's a comic shop, they don't sell any maps or anything - and you'll find a copy there. Otherwise, they'll deliver it anywhere.

By the way, I've been spending all my drawing time working on the comic recently, so just to prove I still draw things, I've drawn a Terminator. Here he is!


Updated my journal.

- Dave Bulmer
The Demon Tomato
davebulmer.com