PRESS!

Also, stegodons aside, over the past little while I've been doing some interviews with Victoria's finest. A local author and comic-book lover by the name of Troy Wilson has been incredible in helping me get some local press. I did an interview with ShawTV (which will be playing tonight at six o'clock) and on the seventeenth, I did an interview on CBC One in Victoria. Once I can, I'll set up links to 'em... 

The wee proboscideans of Flores...

Ah, the flores stegodon. How confusing those paleontologists have been. 
In the first national geographic article, the dwarf stegodon described as being contemporaneous with H floresiensis was stegodon sondaari. The problem was that this water-buffalo sized stegodon went extinct some 900,000 odd years ago. It was replaced by s. Florensis, a "medium to large" sized proboscidean - a size, I assume, to be close to that of your average asian elephant. Hundreds of thousands of years on Flores, however, did dwarf the stegodons, and the proboscidean that did live alongside h. Floresiensis was s. Florensis Insularis, a stegodon which, according to the one paper I could only read the abstract of, was 30% smaller then the ancestral s florensis, based off of the size of the juvenile molars found in the same layer as H floresiensis.

With all this shit in mind, this is my new dwarf stegodon - which, visually, I think is more dramatic a juxtaposition to have with h floresiensis. What do you think? 

Vancouver was fun!

A little something Ed made for the launch... which was great. I got to meet and drink beer with all types of wicked folks - all of whom I'd like to thank for a great time.

MAN ALIVE!

MAY HAS BEEN INTENSE!

I got back from TCAF (the Toronto Comics Art Festival) last week, which was abso-fucking-lutely great. The whole place was just tingly with positive vibes, and I got to drink a lot of beer with Ed and the indubitable Jason Turner. I had a great time there - then got to have a blast in winnipeg with  some friends who I went to Ukraina with. And if the good times weren't rolling enough, I got to do a radio interview with Robin at Inkstuds THIS VERY DAY! CHECK IT OUT!

I KNOW!

IT'S RIGHT HERE!

OH - AND GUESS WHAT! I'LL BE IN VANCOUVER FOR THE LAUNCH, TOO!

Fresh and Delicious

Hot off of the presses!

PRESS, PRESS, and MORE PRESS

There's now an interview I did a few weeks ago with Shaun Manning up on Comicbookresources.com. It's got a whole bunch of preview pages and interesting personal tidbits!

Swing on over and look it up!

"Jan's Atomic Heart" Review at Eyeoncomics!

The awesome Don MacPherson, resident critic at eyeoncomics.com, did an in-depth and very favourable review for JAH - 10/10!

Here's an excerpt:

Simon Roy brings a Euro-comics look to bear on this project, which makes sense given that it’s set in Frankfurt. His style here is easily comparable to that of Guy (B.P.R.D.) Davis, and the gruff, grizzled look of some of the characters also reminded me of similar characters in Paul Grist’s Kane and Jack Staff. The story presents a visual challenge in that the robotic facade of the main character isn’t the most emotive of visages, but Roy demonstrates his skills by conveying the appropriate feelings through the character’s body language. There’s a nice variety in his repertoire of storytelling techniques. He offers some convincing cityscapes and backgrounds, but there are other times when he isolates the characters in fields of white to emphasize a moment or to enhance a particular mood.

I'm feeling understandably good about this...

An... interview?

"SNEAK PEEK: THE BEATING OF JAN'S ATOMIC HEART 

An interview and 6-page .pdf preview of the upcoming sci-fi mystery, Jan's Atomic Heart. Fans of Blade Runner and I, Robot are in for a treat. Take a look inside the thought process of Simon Roy, who thinks robots may do more than just clean our house in the future."

I know, eh? Check it out!

(plus here's a dinosaur)

ART PARTY!

Alright folks! I've been drawing a lot lately... check it out.

First up, its DINOSAUR CAVE ART WITH NEMO RAMJET! 

Next up, adventures with the world's smallest hominids!

More later.

Sketch/Script

One of the sketch/script pages that preceded the second scene of "Jan's Atomic Heart". 

A picture for the inner covers of the book. I dunno how I feel about it. I think I kind of mucked up the lower right in the wreckage there.

RAISE THAT ROOF!