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Delay to page 104

Pressyuk — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 15:49:48 +0000

Sadly 104 will be delayed for a few days but fear not we’re working on getting it up ASAP. In the meantime two years after a pint of “welsh porter” changed my life forever my rant about the (mis)use of accents, dialects and slang in comics still gets literally some hits from time to time. Go check it [...]

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Falklands 30: how it has changed Britain.

Pressyuk — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 21:12:23 +0000

I believe it was a man from 45 Commando, Royal Marines who said “give me 120 men and I could have died of old age holding these hills.” He was referring to the battle for the hills surrounding Port Stanley during the Falklands War in 1982. The statement wasn’t a crude dig at the perceived [...]

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Why I back voluntary work experience.

Pressyuk — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 10:34:08 +0000

I have a shocking admission to make. I once worked for two weeks without pay. Allow me to explain. In 1998 I joined Nortel Networks on a work experience placement. I was a bright eye’ed and enthusiastic fifteen year old who was eager to learn and get stuck in and suddenly being thrust into a [...]

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“I don’t want to end up like Robert Dziekański” or my Canadian immigration experience.

Pressyuk — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 22:57:39 +0000

This week I mentioned that I had a very inconvenient run in when entering Canada on business. My trade during the day is datacenter engineering for a major tech firm. I work as part of a team rolling out new kit across our network of datacenters (or DCs) across the globe. Its the main reason [...]

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Where we’re at currently…

Pressyuk — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 19:55:33 +0000

It has been a pretty interesting few months behind the scenes here at Hard Graft towers since our last update which was waaay back in April. Thats almost five months? Incredible. Anywayyou’re probably wondering why there has been such a massive gap between comics and I’m here to explain the relevant reasons why this is [...]

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Update for June 2011

Pressyuk — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 12:23:46 +0000

Schedules out of the window, budgets under strain and the spectre of ever more delays loom. Thats the general outlook for May and June. Doom and gloom. Basically things aren’t really going all that well on the Hard Graft front. Issue 3 faces ever more delays and financial squeezes mean that I’m delaying the current [...]

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Kickstarting the brain #4 : Traitors Den

Pressyuk — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 18:07:35 +0000

For the past few days I’ve been challenging myself to come up with a script idea a day. The outline is as follows: So I thought I’d try and get up to speed and stretch myself a bit so I set myself a challenge to write an idea a day.The criteria is as follows: The [...]

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Kick starting the brain #3 – Tackle Bag XV

Pressyuk — Sun, 24 Apr 2011 03:55:17 +0000

As mentioned the other day I’ve decided to try to think up a new comic idea a day, every day for the foreseeable future. The criteria is as follows: The idea must be vaguely unique to ones you have created before. The idea must be in the form of an elevator pitch of one to two paragraphs [...]

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Kick starting the brain #2 – Student politics

Pressyuk — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 13:10:27 +0000

As mentioned yesterday I’ve decided to try to think up a new comic idea a day, every day for the foreseeable future. The criteria is as follows: The idea must be vaguely unique to ones you have created before. The idea must be in the form of an elevator pitch of one to two paragraphs of three [...]

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Kick starting the brain #1 Cromwellian conspiracies

Pressyuk — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 23:14:27 +0000

Things have been going relatively slowly at Hard Graft towers recently. Part of the problem is complacency whilst other faults could be a malaise that has descended like a cloud upon my creativity. Not necessarily writers block but I’m not challenging myself either. However recently I bought the first three volumes of Bakuman which is by the [...]

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