It is a black bolt!

We watched the animation film 'Bolt' last night. I know it's for kids but the animation work is incredible and a joy to watch. In fact, everything about it is so well done - the plot - characterisation etc etc. I wonder how many people realise where the idea for Bolt's "super bark" came from? I may be wrong but it seems an amazing coincidence that there was this character called 'Black Bolt' in the early Fantastic Four comics, the leader of the Inhumans, whose voice was so devastating that he had to remain silent. If he so much as whispered there was an earthquake. i find it hard to believe that the creators of Bolt had never heard of Black Bolt. Good job Black Bolt is fictional character or he might be pretty peed off at being turned into a dog :-)

FAIRY FANTASY MYTHOLOGY ARTS 'N' CRAFTS EXHIBITION AND WORKSHOP

An event where you can get to meet several great artists like Brian Froud, Wendy Froud, Ed Org, Alexandra Dawe, Ian Daniels, Josephine Wall and Mark Potts. If you are an artist you'll love it or if like me, you are not much of an artist then you'll love it too! If you have no idea what I mean just click on one of the names and you'll see some of the prints we have of their work to give you an idea what you are in for. Then if you click here on Laughing Magpie you'll go to their website where all will appear as if by magic :-)

Artists UK Summer Sale is here !

It's really too hot and muggy to be doing this but the Artists UK Summer Sale has finally sailed off in a blaze of glory as usual and the orders are already pouring in, mainly from our old customers who get ready for this annual happening and know they can pick up some lovely popular items at discounted prices. There are loads of prints, posters, T-Shirts, books etc in the sale. If you'd like to join them then you just need to click here.

Latest news

Well I must admit that we don't really get round to putting as much here as we do on our www.artistsuk.net blog or on our updates page at www.artistsuk.co.uk but we thought we ought to let all you guys and gals knows about Chris Down. He's a great new artists who has produced a range of excellent signed Giclee prints at reasonable prices that you can see here. We will also shortly be getting some new SIGNED Brian Froud prints including a lovely large 'Faery of Dark Dispair' that has been one of his best selling images for some time. They will be flying in on gossamer wings very shortly to arrive in one or other of his sections under his main area on our website here. Of course, we are all waiting with baited breath to see if the Dark Crystal 2 film will ever see the light of day and whether it will live up to the first one. In the meantime there is of course the wonderful Limited Edition print of Toby and the Goblins in the afformentioned area on our website. Of course, Toby himself is rather older nowadays and becoming quite a talent himself but then with parents like Brian and Wendy Froud that is hardly surprising. His DNA must be literally bursting with creative energy!

A word on the new stock on its way

We're excited to have finally found some good Steranko prints that should be with us soon on our ecommerce site at www.artistsuk.co.uk . There will also be some new Olivia, Jeff Jones and lots more. There'll even be some new Marvel characters like the Silver surfer and Thor turning up. There have been recent restocks of Discworld and Elvgren amongst others and we may be even dong some publishing this year as my book may finally be seeing the light of day and will be distributed by Artists UK. More news on that to follow ...

Just like it says on the box

We get loads of enquiries, mostly from the USA, about whether we ship orders of prints, posters etc to the USA. That wouldn't seem strange except that every page of our ecommerce website at www.artistsuk.co.uk has SUPPLYING CUSTOMERS ALL OVER THE WORLD SINCE 1994 at the top of it. Maybe some Americans don't feel they live in the world? Could all those years under Bush have created this effect? Who knows? Answers on a stamped-addressed fortune cookie please :-)

Storming away towards the 25th December ...

Yes, as usual we here at Artists UK have very little time to keep up with our blogs at this time of year as the orders rush in and we rush around and the packages of prints, posters, tshirts, books and jigsaws etc rush out all over the world ...

Now its time to keep the last posting dates in mind and do everything we can to make sure that everything gets out by the date it should so it can get to where it should by the time it should (as long as the postal services do their job as well as we do of course!).

So; I'd better stop writing this and get on and make sure it all happens.....

ALL THE BEST FOR CHRISTMAS AND THE NEW YEAR FROM ARTISTS UK!