Hello there.

Make yourself comfortable.  Have a biscuit.  And if you value your sanity, run away; run away as fast as humanly possible.

You're staying?  Well, don't say you weren't warned.  Those biscuits are quite nice, though.

Anyway, introductions: my name is Matthew Colclough.  Nice to meet you.  I'm one of those people who's dabbled in quite a few different things - most of the ramblings are on my blog, some (but by no means all) of my drawing and painting is on DeviantArt, the videos are on YouTube, and this is my shiny new repository for all the bits and bobs that don't fit anywhere else, most notably the comic strips.

The site is very much still under construction; various new bits will come online as and when I get round to uploading them.

Latest Developments

• Saturday 27 October 2018: updated Papertowns page with the latest drawing, Lodewater.
• Saturday 17 March 2018: added showcase page for my new live-action short Wakey: wakey.htm.
• Thursday 27 July 2017: updated the showcase page for The Murkum Show to include wallpapers etc for Series 4: murkumshow.htm.
• Monday 17 July 2017: updated Papertowns page with the latest drawing, The Curling Keys Inn.
• Thursday 10 November 2016: put up a showcase page for The Murkum Show spin-off The Lower Ranks, with the usual bits and bobs.
• Tuesday 4 October 2016: published my poem See the Question, at seethequestion.htm, including the full text in two languages, the cover art, and a sort-of explanation of what it's all about.
• Friday 9 September 2016: put up a new showcase page for The Probe Has Succeeded with the usual accoutrements, at probehassucceeded.htm.  Also updated the Arc Phase Variations and Papertowns pages with the latest drawings in the series.
• Sunday 1 May 2016: ported the George Darlan Fansite across from its old server to gd.mattghc.com.  Also been working on porting the rest of the older Cylinder and Miserable archives, but not quite finished that yet.
• Thursday 28 January 2016: updated the showcase page for The Murkum Show to include wallpapers etc for Series 3: murkumshow.htm.

Film & Animation Projects

Fine Art Projects

Comic Strips

• Cylinder and Miserable - my longest-running comic strip project, with more than 2000 episodes published since 2006.  3 posts a week, mostly very odd.
• Grace and Caffeine - the Christian-themed strip I produced for my church once a week between late 2006 and mid 2010; complete 178-episode archive.
• Fort Paradox - strange cross-continuity adventure produced in collaboration with Tim & Sarah Johnston with occasional chippings-in from one or two others.  Features characters from Cylinder and Miserable and Grace and Caffeine, among other sources.
• Alien President - a spin-off from Tim's comic Brothers in Shells, in which breakout character George Darlan becomes the 45th President of the United States of America.
• Games Baptists Play - a short-lived precursor to Grace and Caffeine.  20 episodes, 2004.
• Rites of Way - my alphabetic strip about learning to drive.  26 episodes, 2007.
• Krome - 69 episodes, 2007 - new archive coming soon
• Pascal Davis and the Machines - 21 episodes, 2005 to 2010 - new archive coming soon