<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3407000896883327098</id><updated>2012-02-16T14:15:59.353-08:00</updated><category term='Northern Sequential Art Competition 2011'/><category term='Thought Bubble'/><category term='comics'/><title type='text'>Martin's Comics Blog</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://martinscomics.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3407000896883327098/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://martinscomics.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Martin Simpson</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02193097682513820247</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='23' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-gN4_sFQnWWE/Ts-ouHBBjhI/AAAAAAAAAmo/WW--YBzKHCQ/s220/CARN-ILLUS-2.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>6</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3407000896883327098.post-4366924054790967431</id><published>2011-11-29T05:50:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-01T01:24:41.189-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Thought Bubble'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='comics'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Northern Sequential Art Competition 2011'/><title type='text'>MY NORTHERN SEQUENTIAL ART COMPETITION ENTRY IS A WINNER!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-_LA0AgQ6dWk/TtTjThTBhoI/AAAAAAAAAnY/dCKpUTqbPno/s1600/TCM%2BFINAL%2BA3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 283px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-_LA0AgQ6dWk/TtTjThTBhoI/AAAAAAAAAnY/dCKpUTqbPno/s400/TCM%2BFINAL%2BA3.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5680414954516219522" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here's my entry for the Northern Sequential Art Competition 2011. I'm bowled over and delighted to announce that my entry was one of the winners! Second place overall!! Totally chuffed!! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Congrats to all those who entered. You can check them all out &lt;a href="http://thoughtbubblefestival.com/events/northern-sequential-art-competition/nsac-2011/"&gt;here!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All the winning entries will be published in next years Thought Bubble Anthology by Image Comics. To check out this years issue go &lt;a href="http://thoughtbubblefestival.com/anthology-2011-issue-1/"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3407000896883327098-4366924054790967431?l=martinscomics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://martinscomics.blogspot.com/feeds/4366924054790967431/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://martinscomics.blogspot.com/2011/11/my-northern-sequential-art-competition.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3407000896883327098/posts/default/4366924054790967431'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3407000896883327098/posts/default/4366924054790967431'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://martinscomics.blogspot.com/2011/11/my-northern-sequential-art-competition.html' title='MY NORTHERN SEQUENTIAL ART COMPETITION ENTRY IS A WINNER!'/><author><name>Martin Simpson</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02193097682513820247</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='23' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-gN4_sFQnWWE/Ts-ouHBBjhI/AAAAAAAAAmo/WW--YBzKHCQ/s220/CARN-ILLUS-2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-_LA0AgQ6dWk/TtTjThTBhoI/AAAAAAAAAnY/dCKpUTqbPno/s72-c/TCM%2BFINAL%2BA3.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3407000896883327098.post-5574660568735185042</id><published>2011-10-28T15:19:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-28T15:21:36.900-07:00</updated><title type='text'>GRAPHIC SHORT STORY PRIZE 2011</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-WncWk8fgyzM/Tqsq0Zd3HcI/AAAAAAAAAlg/V3lHVlwSw58/s1600/CFL-PG-1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 308px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-WncWk8fgyzM/Tqsq0Zd3HcI/AAAAAAAAAlg/V3lHVlwSw58/s400/CFL-PG-1.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5668671635653598658" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-jjaYcpWL5Ds/TqsqxDn1hrI/AAAAAAAAAlU/cHJFYy4bPNQ/s1600/CFL-PG-2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 308px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-jjaYcpWL5Ds/TqsqxDn1hrI/AAAAAAAAAlU/cHJFYy4bPNQ/s400/CFL-PG-2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5668671578250249906" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-WNKV7TAKcS0/Tqsqsx6jgFI/AAAAAAAAAlI/MYf3NjrS5hU/s1600/CFL-PG-3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 308px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-WNKV7TAKcS0/Tqsqsx6jgFI/AAAAAAAAAlI/MYf3NjrS5hU/s400/CFL-PG-3.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5668671504777445458" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-kVhes8RYPTk/TqsqqJfup3I/AAAAAAAAAk8/xNRbZNuHu8g/s1600/CFL-PG-4.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 308px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-kVhes8RYPTk/TqsqqJfup3I/AAAAAAAAAk8/xNRbZNuHu8g/s400/CFL-PG-4.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5668671459567773554" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here's my entry for this years Graphic Short Story Prize. Hope you all like the look of it. You can see many of the other entrants &lt;a href="http://www.comicafestival.com/index.php/prize/detail/2011_graphic_short_story_prize/"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3407000896883327098-5574660568735185042?l=martinscomics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://martinscomics.blogspot.com/feeds/5574660568735185042/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://martinscomics.blogspot.com/2011/10/graphic-short-story-prize-2011.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3407000896883327098/posts/default/5574660568735185042'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3407000896883327098/posts/default/5574660568735185042'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://martinscomics.blogspot.com/2011/10/graphic-short-story-prize-2011.html' title='GRAPHIC SHORT STORY PRIZE 2011'/><author><name>Martin Simpson</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02193097682513820247</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='23' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-gN4_sFQnWWE/Ts-ouHBBjhI/AAAAAAAAAmo/WW--YBzKHCQ/s220/CARN-ILLUS-2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-WncWk8fgyzM/Tqsq0Zd3HcI/AAAAAAAAAlg/V3lHVlwSw58/s72-c/CFL-PG-1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3407000896883327098.post-1255884267270138060</id><published>2011-07-05T07:07:00.003-07:00</published><updated>2011-09-30T02:51:02.649-07:00</updated><title type='text'>DINING ON ASHES 3</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-pLuZlYFRbpU/ToWQ_Bv6qaI/AAAAAAAAAgk/T2jTXrDG4As/s1600/DOA-4-PO-FO-4.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-pLuZlYFRbpU/ToWQ_Bv6qaI/AAAAAAAAAgk/T2jTXrDG4As/s400/DOA-4-PO-FO-4.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5658087919336466850" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3407000896883327098-1255884267270138060?l=martinscomics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://martinscomics.blogspot.com/feeds/1255884267270138060/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://martinscomics.blogspot.com/2011/07/dining-on-ashes-page-7.html#comment-form' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3407000896883327098/posts/default/1255884267270138060'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3407000896883327098/posts/default/1255884267270138060'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://martinscomics.blogspot.com/2011/07/dining-on-ashes-page-7.html' title='DINING ON ASHES 3'/><author><name>Martin Simpson</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02193097682513820247</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='23' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-gN4_sFQnWWE/Ts-ouHBBjhI/AAAAAAAAAmo/WW--YBzKHCQ/s220/CARN-ILLUS-2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-pLuZlYFRbpU/ToWQ_Bv6qaI/AAAAAAAAAgk/T2jTXrDG4As/s72-c/DOA-4-PO-FO-4.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3407000896883327098.post-8904322755335550505</id><published>2011-07-05T07:06:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2011-09-30T02:50:23.001-07:00</updated><title type='text'>DINING ON ASHES 2</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-UHCsqzlnw_U/ToWQ2g3zSZI/AAAAAAAAAgc/N-HRbReRnQU/s1600/DOA-4-PO-FO-3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 316px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-UHCsqzlnw_U/ToWQ2g3zSZI/AAAAAAAAAgc/N-HRbReRnQU/s400/DOA-4-PO-FO-3.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5658087773072214418" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3407000896883327098-8904322755335550505?l=martinscomics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://martinscomics.blogspot.com/feeds/8904322755335550505/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://martinscomics.blogspot.com/2011/07/dining-on-ashes-page-4.html#comment-form' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3407000896883327098/posts/default/8904322755335550505'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3407000896883327098/posts/default/8904322755335550505'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://martinscomics.blogspot.com/2011/07/dining-on-ashes-page-4.html' title='DINING ON ASHES 2'/><author><name>Martin Simpson</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02193097682513820247</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='23' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-gN4_sFQnWWE/Ts-ouHBBjhI/AAAAAAAAAmo/WW--YBzKHCQ/s220/CARN-ILLUS-2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-UHCsqzlnw_U/ToWQ2g3zSZI/AAAAAAAAAgc/N-HRbReRnQU/s72-c/DOA-4-PO-FO-3.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3407000896883327098.post-391344666799822044</id><published>2011-07-05T07:05:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2011-09-30T02:50:00.254-07:00</updated><title type='text'>DINING ON ASHES 1</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-bUM0ZFSeVKE/ToWQwmiEAnI/AAAAAAAAAgU/Pfum4JzGbFU/s1600/DOA-4-PO-FO-1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 319px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-bUM0ZFSeVKE/ToWQwmiEAnI/AAAAAAAAAgU/Pfum4JzGbFU/s400/DOA-4-PO-FO-1.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5658087671512433266" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3407000896883327098-391344666799822044?l=martinscomics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://martinscomics.blogspot.com/feeds/391344666799822044/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://martinscomics.blogspot.com/2011/07/dining-on-ashes-page-2.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3407000896883327098/posts/default/391344666799822044'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3407000896883327098/posts/default/391344666799822044'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://martinscomics.blogspot.com/2011/07/dining-on-ashes-page-2.html' title='DINING ON ASHES 1'/><author><name>Martin Simpson</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02193097682513820247</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='23' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-gN4_sFQnWWE/Ts-ouHBBjhI/AAAAAAAAAmo/WW--YBzKHCQ/s220/CARN-ILLUS-2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-bUM0ZFSeVKE/ToWQwmiEAnI/AAAAAAAAAgU/Pfum4JzGbFU/s72-c/DOA-4-PO-FO-1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3407000896883327098.post-5386309718903976923</id><published>2011-06-16T05:12:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-09-30T02:49:37.040-07:00</updated><title type='text'>WELCOME TO MY COMIC BOOK STUFF!!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hcf5YH5-GGw/ToWQqDXhwPI/AAAAAAAAAgM/47KRyVJGEU0/s1600/DOA-4-PO-FO-2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 308px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hcf5YH5-GGw/ToWQqDXhwPI/AAAAAAAAAgM/47KRyVJGEU0/s400/DOA-4-PO-FO-2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5658087558993789170" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Welcome to my new blog! Thanks for dropping by.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'll be using this blog to show any comic book work I get up to. I'm just feeling my way through things at the moment. But I'm happy with the way it's going so far.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;First up I'll be posting a few images from a little comic project I call 'Dining On Ashes'.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hope you enjoy looking around here!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3407000896883327098-5386309718903976923?l=martinscomics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://martinscomics.blogspot.com/feeds/5386309718903976923/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://martinscomics.blogspot.com/2011/06/dining-on-ashes-first-few-pages.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3407000896883327098/posts/default/5386309718903976923'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3407000896883327098/posts/default/5386309718903976923'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://martinscomics.blogspot.com/2011/06/dining-on-ashes-first-few-pages.html' title='WELCOME TO MY COMIC BOOK STUFF!!'/><author><name>Martin Simpson</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02193097682513820247</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='23' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-gN4_sFQnWWE/Ts-ouHBBjhI/AAAAAAAAAmo/WW--YBzKHCQ/s220/CARN-ILLUS-2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hcf5YH5-GGw/ToWQqDXhwPI/AAAAAAAAAgM/47KRyVJGEU0/s72-c/DOA-4-PO-FO-2.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry></feed>
