The Logos is Common

If you’re in Leicester on a Friday-Sunday before 12th December, be sure to visit this terrific exhibition, featuring a brand new Ultraworld cartoon and a related vid-installation.

It launched on Friday, and these things happened:

Ultraworld

Here’s the colour version of the first Ultraworld Cartoon I did for IDOL Magazine.

Captain Cape

Captain Cape is the superhero I invented when I was eight years old, after reading the much maligned, but frankly brilliant, How to Draw Comics: The Marvel Way. Thinking about it… I didn’t get that book until I was eleven. What’s the difference? I was a tiny child, and I invented the greatest Superhero of all time! He’s a cyborg who wears a cape. None of the original Captain Cape drawings survive, but I can vividly recall the spirit of this amazing hero. The way he looked. The mutants he fought. The robots he hung out with. All these things seem realer to me than my so called life. Because I am slightly mental.

More recently I produced an updated version of the character, which is collected, in its entirety in the book Fights ‘n’ Wizards. The idea was to make him acceptable to the youth of 2004. It was a raging success. But the story cannot end there.

It’s 2009 now. The world is a frightening place, chock full of terrorists and paedophiles. I thought it was high time the old Cap’n dusted off his Cape of Justice and appeared in a collection of mini-comics. He’s darker; sassier; leaner; meaner; slightly taller and he swears a bit. He’s moved from a dystopian wasteland setting to the wild, futuristic Hotdog City. He is joined by the weirdest and most imaginative cast of characters you will ever meet.

Wickedwitch! She’s a witch superhero on a broom. Dogmaster! Master of dogs. Micro Michelle! She’s smaller than an atom, but she could bring down Mr T! Red Cobra has the ability to stretch his midriff, like a snake. Nigel is their Leader. Together with Captain Cape they are the Superhero Alliance. They protect mankind against evils.

If you can’t wait to start reading these amazing cartoon stories then head over to www.richardpeel.com and have them sent to your very door. A snip at £3! One correspondent, who purchased a Captain Cape book from Gosh Comics told me that he would have gladly paid £3.50. See what you think.

Education Man

Here’s an oldie:  link

Abject Skinlessness

Takin’ Care o’ Business

Maximum Rudeness

Aerial Madness!

Enter The Dogness

Way down in the Hole

Guess what! They’re making season 6 of The Wire and they asked me to make a theme tune:

Way Down in the Hole (Tom Waits cover)

Not really, of course. It’s just a bit of fun.