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GOOF!: A new comic series for everyone

21/6/2018

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GOOF! is a brand-new, monthly digital comic, that showcases some of the goofiest and greatest cartoonists walking this planet brought together by Marc Jackson.  Read it on any mobile device or desktop computer, anytime, anywhere! For just £1, you’ll get a 30 page feast of funnies in your mailbox. For just £12 a year, you’ll get each issue guaranteed and the chance to follow your new favourite characters’ regular strips.
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My series 'Life Jacket' is in Goof! amongst other series by over 20 other comic creators such as Ken Niimura, Lew Stringer, Emmeline Pidgen, Dick Vincent, Genie Espinosa, Fred Hembeck, Mari Ahokoivu, Tor Freeman, Fulton Beal, Andreas Schuster, Luke McGarry, Lorenzo Montatore and MORE!
Go to the Goof! site and sign up for the first release on 23rd of June!
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Not so New Year

14/2/2018

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​It's been 2018 for 44.5 days. It's incredible how life sweeps along and can be filled up so rapidly. I've neglected a lot of online 'housekeeping' but I've been busy with actual housekeeping as I moved into a wonderful art studio in Manchester!
Having this extra and isolated space for everything art has helped my mentality and productivity in just a few 2-hour visits. It has given me permission to be messy, and remember how to play, with any outcomes left unplanned. It's a space for me to use real paints and brushes, and avoid the digital world which I've grown comfortable in (though with a lot left to explore and improve on...) for the last couple of years.
I've been working in a design job full-time for almost a year and have spent my commutes sketching looking out the train window. I've taken these daily sketches to the studio and have begun to experiment with what I've done so far and continue to do daily. What will come from them, I can't say, and I like that!
However, as of this year, I do have much more defined work in the pipeline: two new comic projects I can't announce just yet but can't wait to show you, and comic festivals from May to ready myself for.  My first book 'Yours, Yesterday' first print run sold out this week apart from a few copies in Oldham's new store Comic Den where I did my first book signing. The response to my little book has been so warm and kind, thank you everyone who's been a part of that, it continues to inspire and motivate me.
Besides all of this art and design I've been managing to live this 2018 life to the full with a great deal of friends, music, food, drink and travel. The best things! The key is to keep saying YES! and WHY NOT? As long as deadlines are being met.
​Are they being met?
​We'll see...  :|
J.x
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ART battle manchester finals

22/9/2017

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WHERE?  Albert Hall Manchester
WHEN?  7PM, Saturday 30 Sept
£££?  Tickets here

​Art Battle has been running since 2013 and on the 30th of September the winners of the past 10 events will go head-to-head for one to be crowned champion!
As if the battling wasn't enough, artists Caroline Dowsett, Emma Reynolds, Rory Mullen and myself will be there as part of Fred Aldous' famed - SO FAMOUS! - 3 Minute Portraits event to draw your face in our own wonderful ways.  

From Art Battle: "Battle Royal will see the 10 winners of Art Battle Manchester return and compete for the Champion of Champions crown. It is only fitting that this ultimate contest is to be held in the stunning and atmospheric Grade II listed Wesleyan chapel, which was closed and hidden for over 40 years, recently restored into the city's most premium music venue. The capacity crowd will watch painters, illustrators, tattooists and street artists go head-to-head in what has been described at the city's most energetic art event. With only 30 minutes to create a masterpiece - YOU will decide who is crowned Champion of Champions."
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Poster by Fred Aldous
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macc-pow #2

29/6/2017

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On July 1st Macclesfield hosts Macc-Pow!
For the second year running, Macclesfield's one-day event celebrating comic art is here! It is the creation of local comic artist Marc Jackson @MARCmakescomics and best of all, it's FREE for everyone under 16, and just a mere £1 for adults.
The town centre has been decorated in KAPOWS, WHOOSH, and BLAMS created through Macclefield's Community Art-Space in anticipation and will host artists who are experienced and up-and-coming, conduct drawing workshops, cartoon screenings and more - it's a jam packed day out! 
I'll have all of my prints and postcards for sale as well as promoting my full-length comic book.  I always look forward to meeting new people the most, and getting to know new places, so do d
rop by my table to say hello and talk comics to me! J.x

INFO
WHEN: Saturday 1st of July – 10-4pm
£££?: FREE entry for children, £1 on the door for adults (16+)
WHERE: Town Hall, Macclesfield, Cheshire, SK10 1EA
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OVerdrawn #7

17/5/2017

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OVERDRAWN #7 Thursday May 25th
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Do you like free entry, a night-long happy hour and live art happening with a DJ creating a funk n soul soundtrack to it all?
​That's every last Thursday of the month at Manchester's Deaf Institute!  At 7pm it's time to grab a drink, take a seat and draw all over the tables with your buddies old and new.  And for #7 I'll be one of the artists drawing live upfront!
Set up by three Manchester artists in their own right, they're on a mission to promote all local artists and build up an OverDrawn community, including more frequent social drawing events, art shops, and more to be announced....
I feel very touched to have been asked and brought into the OverDrawn fold, and look forward to where this movement is heading.
See you at The Deaf Institute!

UPDATE: check out the new site!
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    about jessica

    Born in Manchester, U.K. Jessica graduated from the University of Cumbria with a first class degree in Digital Arts BA (Hons). Specialising in portrait painting and comic creating, her work is a bold mixture of influences; cartoons, classical art, film cinematography and video games.

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