I am fortunate enough to be attending and selling my wares at Ltd Edition in Zurich this weekend (21st-23rd June). I’m so pleased to be amongst such a fantastic line-up of artists and designers.

This week’s work in progress….
©Ben Newman  

Astro Cat Extras…. today’s work… and its sunny outside too!

Mask 11 (2011)
©Ben Newman 

The brilliant James Wilson (Jambonbon) has also animated another character from my next book, “Professor Astro Cat’s Frontiers of Space’, with Dr Dominic Walliman. This time Emmet the dog is whizzing along the surface of Mars in his own flying saucer.

Just one of the super cool facts in the book… due out in October…

I worked as one of the designers for this commercial for ‘Fuze Tea’ last year. The animation company behind this wonderful advert is Nexus. Directed by Smith & Foulkes with art direction from Colin Bigelow, it was a real pleasure to have worked (even in such a small capacity) on such a brilliant animation. I mainly worked on the character design and learnt a few new tricks while I was there. Enjoy!

‘Ouroboros’ Animation Test
One day I’m going to raise the money to get the full comic animated… one day….. one day….. 
Check out the animator of this test, Daniel Binns, HERE 
The comic, Ouroboros, is now sold out so if you see one lurking about in a shop anywhere then grab it while you can.

(Source: vimeo.com)

A great interview with Sam from Nobrow about their new children’s book imprint, Flying Eye Books, over on the Cool Hunting website. The article also features, for the first time, a spread from inside ‘Professor Astro Cat’s Frontiers of Space’ by Dominic Walliman and me….. click HERE to read the interview.

Small crop from the last page of ‘Professor Astro Cat’s Frontiers of Space’… By Dr Dominic Walliman and Ben Newman. Published in October 2013 by Flying Eye Books.

MASK 03 (2011)
© Ben Newman

Astro Cat dreaming….
You can see the front cover of the book HERE 

Only 5 pages to go and my next book is finished….

Clifton Coffee Company products.