John Allison

Solver returns at the end of January (delayed by jury duty as discussed) in a new form, SOLVER CASE FILES. Here's the cover of the first Case Files issue, Round & Round & Round part 1. Whatever you think this story is going to be about, I promise to confound you at least once and possibly twice. Oth

Work is underway on the next Solver story, Round & Round & Round, which is long-billed but had been on and off the schedule, until I finally managed to work it out. I'm writing the first part at the moment but sketches are starting to accrue and I thought you might enjoy a couple of fun ones. This s

Yesterday was apparently "Batman Day", which I am certain is a Hallmark holiday, but I was in for the evening so I drew a quick picture of some of your comic friends and posted on the socials: "just remember that a new Batman crossover can happen at ANY TIME". In reality, it can't, because I'm not s

While my break is drawing to a close, the hiatus won't hit the website until June 22nd, when an eight-week wave of interminable reruns will hit the shore. But it's the best possible rerun I could do, the Murder She Writes 15th anniversary edition that I had intended to print, with some tiny visual t

The next Solver story will be posted here on April 23rd. As you can see, it's the Christmas special. I will be the first to concede that the timing of it is far from special. Edit: somehow I uploaded a less resplendent earlier draft.

Here's the second part of the trio of issues that closes out Solver volume 2, "Hull or High Water". I was dogged by illness and equipment failure while drawing this one but somehow rode it out unscathed and it's probably my favourite Solver chapter so far. The next chapter, "Christmas Special", shou

Sunday greetings, valued subscriber. A new Solver story is here for you. This is the first part of a trilogy of single-issue tales that will round out volume 2. The next one, "Hull or High Water", will be with you on March 1st. If you enjoy this issue or have anything to say, I look forward to heari

Lottie and Claire break out their karaoke chops again in the spring in Solver. The scene needed a little "designing" - here are a small selection of drawings from the process, from early drawings on paper, to working out palettes.

New cover below. "Little Days" begins January 5th! I can't believe it's 2026 (in my uploads queue) already!!

Solver isn't back until January, but you can remind yourself of your favourite over-excited scamps any time you like with this thrilling phone wallpaper.

Happy Sunday to you, my valued subscriber. So here it is, the final part of Wobbly Head, which resolves not only this story but also (fingers crossed) the story arc of my 2020 series WICKED THINGS. My aim was to tell a story that would stand alone, while also satisfying people who bought the earlier

My sketchbook is not exactly bursting of late, I've been doing life drawing classes nearly every week for more than a year and that has been my "practice" if you like. But occasionally scribbling still takes place, and there are a few fun drawings here for Wobbly Head part 3. If you were not aware,

Happy Sunday, subscriber! Well, here we are, part 3 of Wobbly Head, where a lot of things are made clear. Or clearer. No one can say I didn't try to provide absolute clarity. You can download your PDF under the cover art. Part 4, the senses-shattering conclusion, runs to an over-generous 24 (rather

For months I have been promising that readers in the US & Canada could buy Solver volume 1 at Topatoco; the first shipment I sent was destroyed in transit so I have been waiting on a reprint to send more. Anyway, they have now arrived safely and are on sale. I've also added Circus Windows. I won't l

Happy new year! The sharp-eyed will spot that this story has gained a part. I was near the end of drawing part two when I spotted that I had an opening to develop things in an interesting way. I inserted a chapter with the final part already written, do not try this at home. The NEW part 3 will begi

Here's part one of WOBBLY HEAD, a long-promised tale that wraps up loose threads from WICKED THINGS, my 2020 Boom!Box series with Max Sarin. If you've not read that, recaps are provided in-story for any salient plot points. I think this is a really good one, hope you enjoy it. Part 2 will begin on o

I'm working on a new print edition of Circus Windows, in a format to match the Solver book and my other A5-size minis. It was drawn US comic size and I thought it wouldn't adapt to the format, but when I looked at it, there were only a few tweaks to get it to fit. One thing I did have to do, however

I drew a cover this morning and when I finished it I thought to myself, I couldn't have drawn that a few years ago. Improvement is still possible. I can feel the green shoots of recovery &c &c. ITEM! That's not quite all, apparently we're less than two weeks away from the 15th anniversary of the deb

The subject of the Wen-Tack comic ("The Great Unboxing") came up the other day and as a lot of people have signed up for the Patreon since I posted it here in 2021, here's a link back to a PDF of this failed but still-interesting experiment along with commentary on what worked and when it didn't why

i don't like working at the weekends but some deadlines are racing towards me so I have had to sit at my desk to make a cover for the Solver collection, otherwise I will not have it printed in time for a local event in August. It's fairly standard and follows the symmetrical format of (some of) the

Here's Solver 11, which hopefully winds up the first volume much better than poor Claire standing in the rain waiting for Lottie to return. Your PDF is linked under the cover image. I had to come up with this issue fast, when all the Conan comics were taken down. I was eleven weeks ahead on the webc

Solver will be back in three weeks, on June 17th. I tried for the tenth but faltered in my efforts, “you’re not 25 any more,” the doctor said to me, vigorously crossing something out in her notes. It’s hard to argue with the medical profession when they state something in such baldly empirical terms

Well, I have come up with a story for you. Next week I'll write and rough it out, and the week after I'll start drawing. Once I have a buffer I'll start running it on the website. I've enjoyed putting the comics up complete on Patreon the day they start on the website but it might take me a few "iss

Read into these what you will. I’ve been writing Conan part 3 today and as senses-shattering conclusions go, this one is among my most exciting. It’s lusty.

This will be attached to some books, somewhere, eventually,

Your PDF is linked under the cover image - please let me know if you enjoyed it in the comments. For new $3+ Patrons, your Solver stories so far (links are to the PDF download posts) Issues 1 & 2 - Circus Windows part 1 & part 2 Issues 3 & 4 - Author Unknown (Steeple crossover) part 1 & part 2 Issue

Your PDF is linked under the cover image - please let me know if you enjoyed it in the comments. And thank you for supporting the creation of these comics. For new $3+ Patrons, your Solver stories so far (links are to the PDF download posts) Issues 1 & 2 - Circus Windows part 1 & part 2 Issues 3 & 4

Look forward to a new print series announcement in the next few weeks, and here's the cover for Solver issue 10. Nothing to worry about!

Number nine... number nice... number nine. This might not be the final cover but it was fun enough to share. What on earth could this issue be about? And below, the cover for the project I will spending the last forty years of my life working on. I've decided to "do a Ditko". Now, I've not read any

Your PDF is linked under the cover image - please let me know if you enjoyed it in the comments. And thank you for supporting the making of Your PDF is linked under the cover image - please let me know if you enjoyed it in the comments. And thank you for supporting the making of these comics. For ne

I'll start running the 12 Bobbins strips I made recently here next week, but in the meantime, rest assured that I am back in business and 1/3 of the way through drawing Solver 8 ("The Urn"). It will run here on October 24th as a PDF and on the website up to a couple of weeks before Christmas (where

It's been a tricky summer for me, and it will be a tricky autumn. In August I drew three weeks-worth of so-so Bobbins comics, trying to keep going just to have something to do, then I ran out of steam altogether. Events finally caught up with me. It's going to take me a while to get back on track, t

Your PDF is linked under the cover image - please let me know if you enjoyed it in the comments. And thank you for supporting the making of these comics. For new $3+ Patrons, your Solver stories so far (links are to the PDF download posts) Issues 1 & 2 - Circus Windows part 1 & part 2 Issues 3 & 4 -

Your PDF is linked under the cover image - please let me know what you think in the comments. And thank you for supporting the making of the Your PDF is linked under the cover image - please let me know what you think in the comments. And thank you for supporting the making of these comics. For new

Solver 6 "drops" on Monday, here's the cover for Solver 7, due August. Good luck working out what this issue is about.

Had to make a pub with a beer garden yesterday for use in a few upcoming comic pages. It took about an hour, which is longer - a lot longer - than making it up on panel would have taken. But if I use it to help layout multiple pages, I can earn the time back quite quickly. The model itself doesn't h

I posted these on Instagram a couple of weeks ago. Wobbly Head is the Wicked Things story that I planned to round out the initial arc with, it would have been issues 7 and 8 and would have completed the Miyamoto plot. Alas, there were no issues 7 and 8. It was a halloween story. It never progressed

I've begun work on a second part of Lottie's careers-related story. I'm still in a kind of work limbo waiting to start on various projects, but it'll emerge eventually, as the first part went over so well on here. Here's the cover. It says "Autumn Special", it could easily be a summer special or a w

Your PDF is linked under the cover image - please let me know what you think in the comments. Thank you for your support!

I'm just finishing up the next Lottie story this week. Given that the script was hastily assembled, I think it's ended up as some of my best work. It'll be available to $3 and up Patreon subscribers in full on April 4th. Quite what this sneak peek of a powerful "cut-scene" foretells, you'll have to

I've been making Procreate templates for fixed-format strips, so I improvised a comic to try one out. I remembered after I made it that Procreate records your drawing by default, so here's the video. The finished comic is below. It is, sadly, near-gibberish. 20220226 Test Strip 2vidfull (YouTube)

Here are my hourly comics from last year. No hourly comics this year, I was marooned in Darlington last night on a broken southbound LNER train and spent the night in a Leeds Premier Inn. Now home, I'm too tired and travelled-out for the odyssey of the hourly. Within moments of arrival at the P. Inn

New Lottie stories will appear under the 'Solver' umbrella (and derivations thereof), this was the title I pitched Wicked Things to Boom under but it did not pass muster. I still like it, though the more I write it down, the less it makes sense as a word.