Dan Lish

Hello 2012!

Dan — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 21:47:41 +0000

Hello folks, apologies for the absence. It’s not due to negligence, i’ve just been furiously busy with my Graphic novel Cartigan volume 2, and my new position at the wonderful Bossa Studios based in London.

For all those that Twitter, I tweet a daily sketch. If not a sketch, then a sneaky peak of a new Cartigan page.

I recently had the fortune of my second book signing in wonderful French town of Angouleme. It’s the 39th BD (comic book) convention since 1972! 40 mins north of Bordeaux, the whole town dedicates itself to everything Comic book. Over 200, 000 comic book enthusiasts from around the world participated. Myself and creative partner Dan Willett signed our ‘you know what’s off’ through out the four day event. The reception was fantastic, very enthusiastic and welcoming, and althoug both our French is very minimal, the locals were extremely accommodating.

My first book signing was in the magical town of St. Malo in Brittany. This was a more family orientated event, with 35, 000 folks passing through. Many people favor this BD event over Angouleme as they say its more relaxed and less industry focused.

Dan W and I are both looking forward to being invited back if we have part 2 of Cartigan complete… (Gulp!).

Thanks again to our publishers from Akileos, Richard and Emmanuel for being such gracious hosts. We had an amazing time!

Cheers, Dan x

Block Party

Dan — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 14:09:27 +0000

Breaksploitation LP and CD cover created for the late, great Break DJ Leacy.

“I think it’s the greatest HIPHOP drawing I ever seen,INCREDIBLE!!!!” – Biz Markie

Cartigan

Dan — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 13:33:07 +0000

Cartigan Book One is my first Graphic novel and is finally available from all good French book and comic stores.

www.amazon.co.uk

www.amazon.fr

Published by Akileos, we’re in the process of turning this novel into a digital motion comic.

I’m currently working on Book Two, of which a couple of teaser pages are shown here.

Monstermind

Dan — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 13:27:24 +0000

Monstermind is a Facebook game from Bossa Studios, London.I’m currently Senior concept artist at Bossa and am working on some exciting new elements for this and future games.

Varsity Rugby Poster

Dan — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 13:25:31 +0000

This poster was created entirely digitally in Photoshop for The Varsity Match which pits Oxford against Cambridge in an annual struggle for rugby supremacy and inter-university bragging rights.

Cartigan

Dan — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 14:36:40 +0000

Cartigan; my first Graphic novel is finally available from all good French book and comic stores.

www.amazon.co.uk

www.amazon.fr

Published by Akileos, we’re in the process of turning this novel into a digital motion comic.

I’m also working on Book two, of which I’ll be occasionally posting teaser pages.

Watch this space for the English version, soon come!

Dan x

Guinness-World-Records!

Dan — Sat, 23 Apr 2011 22:11:41 +0000

I stumbled into this whilst promoting m’ novel at KAPOW! London comic con.

I contributed to this world record by creating the last frame, and after 11 hours 19 minutes and 38 seconds, two new Guinness World Records had been set: the “Fastest Production of a Comic Book” and the “Most Contributors to a Comic Book”.

With more than 60 contributors, the comic-book will be printed and distributed through Marvel’s Icon imprint, with all royalties being donated to Yorkhill Children’s Foundation. Well done to everyone involved!

Cartigan at KAPOW!

Dan — Sat, 23 Apr 2011 22:00:07 +0000

Finally, after almost five years my first Graphic novel entitled ‘Cartigan’ with be published by Akile os in June.

Two weeks ago, myself and Writer Dan Willett promoted the novel at KAPOW! London comic con, where the general feedback we received for Cartigan was truly amazing!

As the novel will be published in French first, our main objective was to try and secure a UK/US deal for all English speaking countries. Again, the feedback from many UK and US publishers was fantastic, and will keep you posted on the outcome. Plus Cartigan will be featured in Bi zarre magazine in a couple of months!

Big shout outs to The Establishing shot and the very friendly Den of Geek for their lovely Cartigan compliments.

These amazing shades I pinched courtesy of Madina. Check out his other mental styles.

Stickerbomb 2

Dan — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 15:18:48 +0000

Studio Rarekwai’s Stickerbomb was the first to highlight the stickers of ‘street artists’ collected in one big bumper book.

I was lucky enough to grace the second volume containing fully-peelable stickers. It’s filled with an amazing collection of more than 250 specially-commissioned stickers by artists, illustrators and graffiti writers from around the world, many of whom have not been featured in a publication before. It will appeal to a young market of designers, street artists and illustrators, plus street art fans and anyone who collects stickers.

Stickerbomb 2 can be purchased in all good book stores.

long!

Dan — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 11:40:47 +0000

Time has whizzed by without me posting a ruddy thing! So after gathering plenty of new Artwork from various projects, i’ll attempt to show the best bits from 2010 to the beginning of 2011.

DJ Hero 2 was released back in October 2010 with critical acclaim. scoring 9 out of 10 on many online reviews, ‘the best kind of sequel’, etc. I was lucky to have worked on this triple AAA title, creating many characters, costume designs, environments, front end elements and loading screens, many of which will be featured in the concept section and on Freestylegames’s site

I’m weeks away from completing book one of ‘Cartigan’, my first Graphic novel. Book one will be published by the wonderful Akileos publishing in France.

If you can make the KAPOW London comic con on-April 9th to 10th, myself with Partner in grime, Mr.Willett will be there to promote Cartigan. can’t wait!

Until next time-Dx