Phlegm is the working name for all my artwork and small press comic. The name phlegm came from one of the four bodily humours in ancient Greek medicine, blood, yellow bile, black bile and phlegm. Phlegm was believed to be responsible for an apathetic and unemotional temperament.
The comic's ethos has always been to give a moments relief from everyday drudgery and apathy, and give you something to think about, or at the very least give you something to look at while you're on the loo.
I produce a small press comic every four to six months that acts as an unedited portfolio of work from that period. The comic started in April 2005. Now the comic has a print run of over two thousand, and is sold all over the UK in a variety of outlets. At the time of writing this the comic is also being sold in Germany, California, Australia and Japan, plus it's sold online via paypal on this website.
The comic contains my pen and ink illustrations, cartoons, street art and mural work. The work is intense, often surreal and thought provoking, but most of the time it looks like a mad person has been locked in a room for years with no company but a bottle of Indian ink and a scratchy nib….because that's precisely what it is.
To look at who I'm collaborating with, exhibitions, bad grammar, ranting, and all the other things I get up to each week take a skip and jump over to my phlegm blog.
Phlegm.