Face To Face Creative Portraits Sails Past Its Final Stretch Goal Now

An Illustrator With True Impact

Face To Face Creative Portraits just sailed past its final stretch goal yesterday where everyone gets a signed photo print. Here’s a look at another subject in the book, British comic writer and artist Jock…

Jock is an artist and now a writer-artist who I first met when he worked on Judge Dredd Megazine a number of years ago. He did an incredible run of covers for DC/ Vertigo’s acclaimed Scalped series. I have interviewed him about Gone, his series for DSTLRY last year and on a couple of other occasions. Over the past couple of years, his standing in the industry has shot up. As well as his comic work, it is his exceptional creations for companies like Mondo of alternate movie posters which has earnt him his reputation. He is always very modest and down to earth whenever we meet too.

In over thirty years as a professional journalist I have interviewed pretty much every mover and shaker in the worlds of comics, film, TV and genre. Also if I have been lucky enough to  do it face to face, I have always made sure I can capture them with one of my own photos. So I thought it was time to try and encapsulate this in a book. Face to Face features 50 subjects from the worlds of comics, film, TV, books and genre, offering a snapshot if you’ll pardon the pun of my career as a journalist and a photographer.
Shooting portraits sometimes with only a few minutes to do this at a press event or a convention rather than the comfort of a creator’s home or studio surroundings can be a challenge. For me creating a portrait is intended to be a piece that reflects the essence of the subject that I have shot and that is why I like to photograph people that I have interviewed as I already have a rapport with the subject.

Here’s where to pledge on the book and get us further along with just 10 days left to go on the campaign.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tripwire100/face-to-face-0?