A sample page from a 12 page comic called Ahuizotl which appeared in the 2011 Spera preview comic and is now featured as a short in the hardback Spera Vol. 1, alongside longer works by Kyla Vanderklugt, Hwei, Emily Carroll and Olivier Pichard. The book sees these four artists retell the Spera story which was originally told online by considerably more artists including myself. It also features a bunch of shorter one-off stories, of which mine is one of them.

Ahuizotl will be online in full at spera-comic.com at some point (I’m excited to share it, it’s got a couple of my personal favourite pages I’ve ever done in it), but until then you will have to seek out the book (see above – cover art by Afu Chan). You can buy it from Archaia here or look for it in your local comic shop.

Here’s Hilda watching over the stock at my signing at Gosh! Comics on 26th November 2011. And now for some spreads from the book:

Hilda and The Midnight Giant is out and available to buy now (preferably buy it straight from Nobrow or support your local comic shop and get it from there. If they don’t have it, ask them to get it! You can get it from Amazon if you must, but no one wins in that deal but Amazon.)

This was my contribution to Solipsistic Pop 4. The theme of the issue was ‘maps’ and so I decided to create a sort of broken down map of the experience of being me at the moment of the comic’s inception.

I decided to really push how small I could make the text and still have it be readable. Perhaps expectedly, for quite a few people, I pushed too far. Its illegibility is maybe no great loss. The words are pretty much just guff that fell out of my head as I typed anyway. But for anyone who felt like they missed out:

Read page 1 hi-res HERE .  Read page 2 hi-res HERE

You can read more about Sol Pop 4 HERE and buy it HERE.

Two page comic I did for Nobrow 6: The Double. Click for full view.

This issue is twice as big as previous ones, with two covers and two halves, one dedicated to illustration and one to comics. I get to be the opener for the comics one. Alongside Nobrow regulars, the comics section of the book includes work from Joe Lambert, Richard Short, Matt Forsythe, Michael Deforge, Kevin Huizenga, Roman Muradov, John Martz, Andy Rementer, Jesse Jacobs, Scott Macdonald, Gemma Correll and more AND has a cover by Tom Gauld. Which is a lineup and a half.

You can order a copy here.

I’m pleased to say my new book is available for pre-order now!

It’s 40 pages, 215 x 300 mm and full colour.

This is a follow up to Hildafolk, my 24-pager of one year ago, but it’s more of a reboot than a sequel and is hopefully the first of a series of albums exploring the same world.

Excitingly, there is also a French version, which you can pre-order here!

Will post more soon, but here’s what Paul Gravett has very kindly said about it:

“From Hildafolk to Everything We Miss, Luke Pearson seems to have a ‘thing’ about the unseen, the invisible, those uncanny occurrences and critters sharing our world but never being noticed by us. Hilda and the Midnight Giant pursues this fixation. Little Hilda is back, savvy and sweet, all big eyes, pointy nose, blue hair, freckles, beret and big boots. She longs to stay in the home with her Mum where she was born, high in the hills, deep in the countryside. But the local “hidden people” have other ideas and have been bombarding the household with tiny letters demanding that they leave. Hilda will have none of this but then chaos ensues as the “people of the Northern Elven Valley” start to implement their forcible eviction from the premises. Hilda’s Mum is all for moving out to the town but Hilda insists they stay. Her Mum gives in but only on the condition that Hilda finds a way somehow to befriend these elves. Channelling Tove Jansson and Hayao Miyazaki, Pearson is developing his chops still further here, crafting pages as crisp and appealing as the best all-ages bande dessinée albums of today. Hilda is the perfect plucky little heroine for this endearing 21st century folklore.”

Here’s a page which gives absolutely nothing away and fails to sum up the tone of the book, but I think is pretty fun.

For info and preview pages, check out the pre-order page here.

This is just a little 2-page Hildafolk comic I did to warm up and get in the mood for drawing my next release, Hilda and The Midnight Giant. It addresses the frequently unasked question, ‘how does The Wood Man’s head stay on his body?’

I have a six page comic in the new Sing Statistics book, Reverence Library Vol. 1. Here is the official description of the book:

Reverence Library Volume One is the first in a new series of abridged pocket encyclopaedias ‘inspired by fact and reworked by fiction’. Essentially, reference books with lies in. Each volume sees a handful of writers and illustrators interpreting three fascinating subjects through art and short fiction. Volume One concerns Galleons, Nikola Tesla, and The Trans-Siberian Railway.

My comic is in the ‘Galleons’ section of the book and is titled My Life Well Sailed. It tells the life story of a 16th century fire ship from the point of view of the ship itself. It’s actually quite an old comic, done before most of the stuff that you’ll find on here, but I feel like it holds up as one of the more interesting things I’ve done.

It’s lovely to be in a book that features writers, illustrators and those in between as equals. It’s beautifully printed, has a stylish cover by Jez Burrows who is one half of Sing Statistics (the other half being Lizzy Stewart who is also featured in the book in equally stylish circumstances) and I recommend picking up a copy here.

This is the first seven pages of ‘Everything We Miss’, which is available to order now.

It’s 34 pages, 155 x 220 mm, 3 spot colours and hardback.

First 500 pre-orders get this limited edition A2 poster.

I’m doing a short July/August signing tour to support it, so come and see me and let me draw in your copy!

This is what Martin Steenton has to say about it:

“Have you ever wondered what goes on in your life when you’re looking the other way? Perhaps you’re so drawn into what’s going on with you that you fail to notice the events taking place to your periphery—or even right under your nose? In Everything We Miss, Luke Pearson explores the dying days of a failing relationship through the infinitesimal unseen moments that surround it—and us.

Emotionally eroded and on the edge of separation, the central couple are going through the classic stages of growing apart. Absorbed by insecurity, indifference, and steadily-growing resentment, they fail to notice the strange happenings that surround their final moments together. Sometimes magical, sometimes mundane, these unnoticed fragments of existence weave together and hang disconcertingly over their lives, isolated yet all-encompassing.

As the couple move through the processes of breaking up, the line between reality and fiction is obscured. Their narrative unfolds as much through their dysfunction as through that of their environment itself: formless spectres rise through the floorboards, directly gripping their jaws and tongues in order to make their dissatisfaction audible; unbeknownst to them, their living room has become overrun by a colony of voyeuristic otherworldly creatures; outside, just for a moment, a dog whispers something under its breath; and somewhere, in someone, a cancer grows—silently and undetected.

Luke Pearson’s most ambitious project to date, Everything We Miss is a poignant and bitingly empathetic graphic novella from one of the most exciting young creators in British comics. As well as an essential showcase of Pearson’s astonishing visual talent and storytelling ability, this is a book for anyone who’s ever experienced the complex emotionality of loss, or agonised about what they have yet to find.”