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Hard Luck City Promo 2026

Hard Luck City is a seemingly ill-fated project I first created way back in 1993. Every so often, I will dust it off and fiddle around with it, but nothing much ever culminates. Maybe someday?!

This time I did a simple page summarising some of the basic themes. For fun, mostly. Who knows. I guess the pinnacle of the idea was getting Gene Colan to draw one of the demonic characters back in 2006 (see below!), for the cover art of a comics anthology project (with Paul Gravett), which would have featured HLC amongst other things.

Hard Luck City Promo 2026
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Gene Colan: Ten Years On

Perhaps this was more appropriately posted back in June (the month of his passing), but as September marks his 95th birthday, that’s fine.

It’s hard to believe the great Gene Colan has been gone for ten years. And what a different (but not in the least bit better) world it is today compared to even back then.


Late ’70s Colan cover to DAREDEVIL #154, nicely inked by Steve Leialoha.
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Hard Luck City

Just slightly longer than a couple of days since my last posting, but hey, after leaving it for six months, this is quite punctual.

I’ve been busy since moving site to new server, tweaking and revising. Special emphasis on the Portfolio (go look)—the visual sections are now slideshows. And much more up-to-date. It’s easier to maintain & update for me, too. So I’m pretty happy about that.

Well, anyhow—one of the things I’ve been doing is working on a book! Those of you, if there are any, who’ve been visiting for aeons and have an obsessively long memory might recall me talking about Hard Luck City before. You can buy it NOW on Amazon UK and Amazon US.

Hard Luck City Cover Gene Colan
HARD LUCK CITY cover. Pencils by Gene Colan. Colours by Randy Sargent.
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Picture This

Well, second week as a Londonder has been… up and down.

On Monday, Paul and Mayko came over to watch X-Men 3. It was only upon her arrival that I discovered Mayko hadn’t seen the first two films! I think she enjoyed it okay anyway, though. She gave me as a gift some bonafide Japanese brush pens, which I look forward to experimenting with. (I haven’t done any drawing at all since the move… yet.)

Fred was his usual combo of cute and temperamental with the guests. We enjoyed a curry and some music before the film itself. A nice evening, though I wish the house was in a better state of organisation for entertaining guests. :-/
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