August 21, 2004. Not more than five pounds in notes! Five! Five pounds!

Well over a year between updates? Apologies and all for the slackness. I'd make some creative excuse but I save all the good ones for when I turn in artwork late.

The latest then: Morrison's Vimanarama is moving along slowly but surely and promises to be the most eagerly anticipated and culturally significant comic book since issue 14 of Fallen Angel. I'll post some pics or sketches or somesuch over the next couple of weeks.

On a more biological front, the delightful Shelly currently has a belly full of little baby who is exected to pop out in November. Not saying what variety of baby it'll be yet as my own doting mother doesn't want to know what colour booties to knit. And I know she regularly surfs teh intarweb.

Geographically, next week sees a trip back to dear old blighty for the wedding of laughing boy Glyn Dillon and the delightful Siobhan. I'll try to make a few more posts from the road.

May 5, 2003. SHEER FABRICATION with Shelly Bond

Currently playing on IPOD: Transmission / Joy Division / Permanent / 3:34 (X10)

In case you aren't aware of my connection to the planet, the last time I checked, I was still, without a doubt, the shortest Bond girl to ever exist. I mean, how utterly fabulous is it to defy all odds… there's gotta be some cash in this… But enough about the old ball-and-chain…

If it's Philip's latest art and a tête-à-tête you're after, give this the twice-over:
X-STATIX #10 out now.
And later:
BATMAN BLACK & WHITE back up story in GOTHAM KNIGHTS #43, out July 16th.
SPIN MAGAZINE: does the SUM 41 thing, out in July.

INTERVIEWS:
BORDERLINE has an extensive and exhaustive feature on DEADLINE.
411 MANIA on X-STATIX and VERTIGO POP: LONDON.
X-FAN on X-STATIX.

CONVENTION APPEARANCES:
BRISTOL, UK May.
SAN DIEGO, CA July.

PHILIP'S SUPER FAVES AKA Music to Watch Girls Go By:
Spandau Ballet (most certainly songs featuring Martin Kemp)
Nicely Inked Girl
CUD (rules 4-ever!)
Suede

PHILIP'S LEAST SUPER FAVES AKA Music for toenail torture:
Bowie circa 1970-1980
Cheap Trick circa 1977-1983
Any and all Oasis
Suede

How affected R U?,
-s x bond
sprightly wife with superior musical taste, recuperating from a dance injury. Too much Sum 41.

February 8, 2003. HELLO, HELLO, GOOD TO BE BACK, GOOD TO BE BACK.

All this internet stuff is being archived in some Antarctic vault for future generations, right? Well if the Wired Western World is going down in a hail of anthrax and smallpox, at least I'm not going without updating my website. As the terror alert slips up to "high" and the rest of New York stocks up on canned goods and bandaids, I spend the day trying to remember how FTP works. (Note to concerned relatives: it's not really that bad, no one's really worried about anything much more than what Michael Jackson or Courtney Love might do next.)

Here's the lowdown then: if anyone noticed, those Kirin ads last year were mine; The Invisible Kingdom collection finally came out; Wood & Rolston's Pounded collection features a page by my good self; and, of course, the last issue of Vertigo Pop: London just hit the newsstands. Go buy it all, including the beer. That's all for now, promise I won't wait so long next time. See you in Bristol this May if we're not all drafted or dead by then.

May 30, 2002. YOU KNOW YOU LOVE IT...

New and future releases: Green Lantern Secret Files #3 is out now, which contains three pages by yours truly. Did I sell-out and enter the DC Universe? You'll have to buy it and find out.

Titan Books rerelease the entire TankGirl oeuvre, no doubt hoping to cash in on the boy Hewlett's reappearance. The last of the three volumes should have a bunch of Bond material including the heart-wrenching "Gospel According To Booga". Buy them all.

What of the long awaited Vertigo Pop: London? You'll have to wait a bit longer. More details eventually. Put some money aside to buy it.
As for the Big Book Of Wild Women, well, god knows what goes on there.

More mentions: check out the interview and exclusive new art on PopImage.

Also: congratulations to reader Mark K. May yours truly be an Endless Summer.
Also: R.I.P Stephen Jay Gould, probably best remembered in the role of the landlord of the Dog's Arms pub in "Psychopanda".

Also: see you in Bristol?

March 3, 2002. BECAUSE YOU DEMANDED IT...

Ok, "demanded" might be putting it a bit strongly, but feast yer peepers on the new Wired World and Angel & The Ape desktops. Don't say I never give you anything.

Also, you should keep 'em peeled for the deep and probing Bond interview over at PopImage. Revelations in abundance, should be up soon.

Check back soon for news of publications you can spend your pennies on. All these freebies are killing me.

December 12, 2001.

It's a whole new planetbond up here! OK, so it's pretty much the same as before but with a different shirt. What was once intended to look "sketchy" just ended up looking messy, so it was about time for the big overhaul.

Pages are streamlined, those rollovers now work properly (er... hang on, no they don't), I even found a couple of 300ppi jpegs masquerading as thumbnails. There is some new artwork, but mostly it's the same old stuff - just optimized. One thing at a time, right?

Anyhow. Come in, look around, press some buttons. Don't like it? Get back to yer Mickey Mouse site.

October 26, 2001.

Another Special update: As part of Oni Press' Comics Help appeal, a page from Angel & The Ape #4 is being auctioned on eBay. This is the page I was working on on September 11th and, spookily, it features the World Trade Center in panel 1, though the towers may well have been whited-out by the time that issue reaches the stores.

You can find the Angel & The Ape page here (bidding ends October 31st), and the rest of Oni's items here. All proceeds go to the American Red Cross. Bid early and bid high.

(Still working on that big update, by the way.)

September 11, 2001.

Special update: Living in a beaten up Big Apple, Shelly and I have been receiving e-mails and phone calls today to make sure we're OK. Thanks to everyone for your concern. Don't fret, we're fine.

August 31, 2001. GUESS WHAT, MOMMY, MY TEACHER PUT MY DRAWING UP ON THE BLACKBOARD.

While The Big Book Of Wild Women is still waiting to shipped into your eager, sweaty hands, the first issue of Angel & The Ape has finally hit the shelves. If you're a spotty geek get yourself down to your local comic store. If you're above all that get one of your spotty, geeky friends to buy it for you. Some of us are spotty, geeky and cool and get the best of both worlds. There are a few glimpses around the site, feel free to browse.

No huge update this time, too busy with the day job, y'know. Check back, though, next time we'll have a whole new look. You never know, those goddamn rollovers might work this time.

July 4, 2001. I LOVE PARIS AT THIS TIME OF YEAR.

Spin over to this Westfield Comics interview with Angel and the Ape writer Howard Chaykin, including some glimpses of issue #1's interior art. You lucky bleeders.

Also: more previously unseen excitement Now Showing.

June 20, 2001. GET YOUR HANDS OFF ME, YOU DAMN CHEEKY MONKEY!

Paradox Press' Big Book Of Wild Women is finally out, featuring (amongst 190 other pages) my Edie Sedgwick strip. Go out and buy that, then start saving your pennies for Angel and the Ape, the new four-issue series by Howard Chaykin, David Tischman and me. That'll start running from August 22nd, just in time to catch the balls-end of the summer's ape craze. I'll be putting up some sneak peeks over the next few weeks but for now you can check it out here.

UPDATES: The oft-requested Endless Summer story from A1 is up in the Now Showing section (a little sappy for you? never mind, there'll be something much more moronic next week). And, for those that care, the chronology has been updated to include a much more picky look at the Deadline years.

April 26, 2001. I SAY, MISTER, CAN I HAVE ONE OF YOUR COMIC BOOKS, PLEASE?

This month sees the last issue of Deadenders hit the news stands. If you haven't been buying it then now might be a good time to GO OUT AND BUY ALL SIXTEEN. Here at planetbond we live a decadent lifestyle and that trickle of royalties helps keep us in Ferrero Rocher. You can reach copies of some of the Deadenders covers via the chronology page and writer Ed Brubaker has some cover sketches on his site.

Also of note, Penthouse's filthy little brother of a site, cartoonwank.com, has the legendary Bigtop Eddie online. It's in the members only section but if you want to join I'm sure they let you see pictures of pretty ladies as well. I really wouldn't know.

March 17, 2001. A TWEAK, A TUCK, DID I SCREW IT UP?

Just a few minor tweaks. Probably nothing you'd even notice (except for you web blackbelts out there, thanks Adam, Martin). Can you find a broken link? Is something buggy? .

Proper update & more artwork coming soon.

February 17, 2001. BUT SIR, THE DOG ATE MY HTML.

We're back! And about bloody time too! Sorry it's been so long since we've spoken, yeh yeh I miss you too. I've been tied up with the BIG NEW PROJECT, a dreamboat of a comic book which should be out in the summer. More info on that closer to the time.

UPDATE: Another old strip goes up in the Now Showing gallery, bringing the total to 37 pages, it's getting like a cineplex down there. Not bad for free.

January 20, 2001. WE'RE THE MOST ÜBER IN THE WHOLE DAMN WORLD.

Big shout going out to the CUD massive, still caring for the memory of Deadline's adopted band. For bothering to write, a link.

UPDATES: The last of the PsychoPanda strips is added to the Now Showing page, more pieces added to the Gallery.

January 05, 2001. SEXYBOY MUST RETURN TO EARTH.

First UPDATE of the 21st Century: A long-needed site streamlining means things look a little more together even if they don't load any faster. Also another creaky but classic strip is added to the Now Showing page. Feel free to browse!

December 17, 2000. "THE ONLY MASTERS I ANSWER TO ARE ROCK'N'ROLL AND THE LURE OF THE OPEN ROAD."

Despite the planetbond counter still showing 23 we're actually just short of 1000 hits since going online, which is more than the average issue of Deadline ever sold (OK, so half those hits were me checking the hit count). By way of thanks another new strip is added to the Now Showing page and tomorrow night I take off my pants for the bondcam. Hello ladies.

December 9, 2000. REMEMBER: THE CAMERA ADDS TEN POUNDS.

This was probably a really dumb idea, but I just wanted to see if it would work. Check out the bondcam (before I tire of the thing) and see how dull the life of the comic book artist really is. (2006 Update: Of course it didn't work. What was I thinking?)

Also this week: rarely seen promo art for Kill Your Boyfriend was unearthed during DC's pre-Christmas clearout, now it's preserved forever in the planetbond gallery. Also, due to popular demand (all five of you), a second PsychoPanda strip is up on the Now Showing page. That panda's antics are hilarious, just hilarious.

November 20, 2000. WHERE WERE YOU IN '88?

I was sat on the floor of Jamie Hewlett and Alan Martin's single room flat pasting up the first issue of our self-published ATOMTAN magazine. Probably eating Garibaldi biscuits and listening to the Smiths.

All this week's UPDATES date back to that period: pages from the two issues we put out are accessible via the chronology page and a three-page strip, ASTONISHING ROCKETGIRL STORIES, is up on the Now Showing page.

November 13, 2000. JUST THE UPDATES, MA'AM.

UPDATES: planetbond can now be found at our exclusive URL of philipbond.net. Extra goodies in the Gallery, and a complete four page WIRED WORLD strip in our Now Showing page.

November 7, 2000. I'M NOT A LITTLE GIRL, I'M A BIONIC WOMAN.

Avid readers should note October 30th's entry seems a little less random when read alongside the PSYCHOPANDA strip it refers to. Hey, it was late, Maybe I'd been watching 98° videos. And Big Fun? What was I thinking?

UPDATES: Our links page is up, such as it is, also added a six-page DOGMEAT strip from 1993 to the Now Showing page.

October 30, 2000. RELIGHT MY FIRE.

(This may not be for me to ponder, but...)

I've always been baffled that, no matter how many times history has said "two years max", there's still some producer, manager, some "suit" (c'mon, these bands don't coalesce by force of nature) willing to put together another one. For every Take That there must be a hundred Big Funs (or, hey, as an ex-pat, for all I know BF may be the big thing back in the UK right now), so why take the chance? Not for the sake of The Art, that's for sure. Am I rambling yet?

Anyhow, with that in mind (and noting that the Spice Girls are back) planetbond modestly unveils its new "Now Showing" section, presenting little-seen strips and blasts-from-the-past in their entirety.

Next week: If it's a website, it must have a links page.

October 22, 2000. NEW YORK WINS GAME.

UPDATES: More pictures added to Gallery; various trims, tweaks & tucks. Strange how I seem to have done nothing in 1994 (see chronology), must look into that.

October 15, 2000. IS IT THE FUTURE YET?

In the early 70's all I wanted when I grew up was to be an astronaut. I figured that by the time I left school a career in space travel would be a viable option. Of course, the next quarter century was something of a let down, no rocket cars or jetpacks, even NASA couldn't be arsed to send a man to Mars. What happened to my future?

But sometimes it's right there in front of your eyes. Riding the Bieber bus from Pennsylvania to New York today, approaching Manhattan Island at dusk you're in some Blade Runner / Judge Dredd / Budgie Boy city. Here are the multi-level highways with streams of streamlined (if not actually hovering) cars and a dozen airliners buzz the skyscrapers (somehow it helps the vision if you're immersed in some post-20th Century paranoid android soundscape like "Kid A".)

And here's the worldwide web. After a crash course in code (excuse the glitches) planetbond throws open its virtual doors (excuse ten year late internet pun.) Look! It's 2000ad!