I was commissioned by ITV, one of the UK's main television broadcasters, to illustrate a series of three short comic strips as part of their social media campaign on Facebook and Twitter to promote the return of Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway.  The superhero themed campaign took its inspiration from the 1960's Batman TV series and featured Ant and Dec as a dynamic duo saving Saturday night television from an erstwhile villain called 'Winter Blues'.  The comic strips complemented ITV's on air and internet video promotional activities.

The three strips I drew were originally scripted to run seamlessly as one story thread over successive weekends before the series returned, but with subsequent changes to the story, the third strip ended up being a separate final segment in itself.

Below is the three strips stitched together into one comic page as I had originally designed.  And below that, you can check out how they finally looked on the facebook and twitter feeds.

Here is chapter four, the final chapter I illustrated of a comic strip for Nitro Digital.  Info about this project and the first three chapters can be found here:

• Chapter one
• Chapter two
• Chapter three

Here is chapter three of the comic strip I drew for Nitro Digital.  Info about this project and the first two chapters can be found here:

• Chapter one
• Chapter two

Here is chapter two of the comic strip I drew for Nitro Digital.  More info about this project and the first chapter can be found in my previous blog entry.

I worked with Nitro Digital, a leading digital healthcare marketing agency based in London on a digital comic that was planned to be used as intro/outro sequences to help progress the story of a Facebook game they were working on with a global pharmaceutical client.  Nitro Digital are big on the potential of gamification and how it can be used to attract new audiences with the health sector.

I managed to complete 4 chapters on the project before my work at the Care Quality Commission had to take priority.  I'm not sure about the current status of the project and whether it will ever see the light of day, but I've been given permission from Nitro Digital to post up the artwork I completed for them.  Each chapter takes the story and game play forward by a decade.  Rather than having traditional pages, the artwork was produced in one extended portrait format sequence for each chapter -  the idea being that the game player would scroll down the comic strip in their browser to see the story unfold.  I produced the artwork on various different layers as the intention was to introduce elements of animation to some panels.

Here is chapter one.  I'll be posting up the remaining chapters I drew shortly.