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Fred Egg Comics Blog
03.02.2025
Inking this page today featuring Big Country, Duran Duran, Ultravox, and Now That's What I Call Music. Although this is the second pag...
02.02.2025
Pencilling this evening; five Christmas LPs, featuring Big Country, Duran Duran, Ultravox, and Now That's What I Call Music.
27.01.2025
I've been inking the Adam and the Ants page today. I'm aiming for a bit more of a DIY/grungy feel for this next comic book. As such I've esc...
26.01.2025
I was pencilling today. It was good fun drawing Adam Ant.
25.01.2025
Workplace closure brought on by the weather warning gave me a bonus day to work on comics. I finished writing my next book.
19.01.2025
Andy Oliver has reviewed You Get What You Get over at Broken Frontier. "What has always marked out Robertson’s comics to me in the past has ...
05.01.2025
Chris Piers has posted his latest Comic Tropes After Dark video: "Indie Showcase: Mailbag for January 2025" He has a look over You Get What ...
31.12.2024
This has been another year greatly enhanced by taking time and making an effort to work on comics as much as possible. It’s not the easiest ...
25.12.2024
Here's all the best for Christmas! A great Valiant and Lion cover from December 1974 portraying the wartime Christmas truce of 1914. I'm not...
24.12.2024
I've had an idea in mind for a longer comic story for a while. I'm aiming for something in the 18-24 page range. Time off work for Christmas...
18.12.2024
Cover by Brett Blevins. I'm guesting on the latest episode of this fun podcast, with hosts Brian Rudloff and Sam Stovold. Discussing Further...
15.12.2024
I was contacted out of the blue this week by a comics student who had picked up some of my books at Dundee Zine Fest last month. He wanted t...
11.12.2024
Kevin Bramer has written on You Get What You Get over at Optical Sloth. "David always draws a few of his stories, so you’re obviously going ...
07.12.2024
Digital colours on the comic today. I also made line art and grey tone versions, to give my editor options.
06.12.2024
Inks done, and blacks spotted today:
05.12.2024
A couple of days off is an opportunity to get a comics page done. Script, layout and pencils done today for a story with working title, "Sig...
02.12.2024
John Freeman has written on You Get What You Get over at Down the Tubes. "...there’s an undefinable nature to David’s work, they have a quir...
18.11.2024
Warren "Wee" Elliott has written on You Get What You Get over at Almost Normal Comics. "It’s an entertaining variety of stories with just as...
16.11.2024
My latest comic is released tomorrow. Here are the fifth in a week long series of previews. An Unusual Occurrence. Story, art: DR. Result. S...
15.11.2024
My latest comic is released this Saturday. Here are the fourth in a week long series of previews. Zombie City Rollers. Story, art: DR. Insa...
14.11.2024
My latest comic is released this Saturday. Here are the third in a week long series of previews. Dark Side of the Bus. Story: Ethan Roberts...
13.11.2024
My latest comic is released this Saturday. Here are the second in a week long series of previews. Oranges. Story, art: DR. Yeah? Well, F...
12.11.2024
My latest comic is released this Saturday. Here are the first in a week long series of previews. O.B. Outside Broadcast. Story, art: DR. Art...
10.11.2024
My new comic You Get What You Get will be launching at this year's Dundee Zine Fest, to be held Saturday 16 November at Art Angel. I'll be t...
12.10.2024
Print files for my next comic were completed yesterday, with contents page, and guest artist bios all checked and in place. Despite my eage...
08.10.2024
I started production on my next comic today. The process always involves putting together a mock up book to ascertain where the different pa...
16.09.2024
Here’s a little preview of the artwork that’s coming together for the next Fred Egg Comic, You Get What You Get. The comic will feature stor...
13.08.2024
Six pages coloured digitally over the past couple of weeks.
12.08.2024
Colouring a page today with watercolour pencils and washes...
29.07.2024
Comic work this week has been performing a series of jobs in photoshop, under the umbrella term, "tidying up". Inked pages are scanned, then...
20.07.2024
A frustrating day. I have a few related ideas for the cover of my next comic, "You Get What You Get". I did some jotting down of notes, res...
19.07.2024
Inking Tuesday's pencils today.
18.07.2024
Inking Monday's pencils today...
17.07.2024
Second page of the same story from yesterday.
16.07.2024
Having a blast. Back to pencilling today.
06.06.2024
Thirty scripts sent out for thirty different artists... Looking forward to seeing what comes back!
07.05.2024
I'm deep into writing a lot of one page comics just now. I have 30 artists lined up to draw stories for me this summer. I write them in a s...
16.04.2024
The latest podcast is now online. After a chat about The Bogie Man Incomplete Case Files, and recently passed comics greats Joe Matt and Ke...
13.04.2024
Today is the last day of my concentrated comics making break from work. I inked this one page story called, "An Unusual Occurrence". Conside...
12.04.2024
More inking. A lot of detail in this one. Last day of inking tomorrow.