Comics, Illustration and Design
As well as publishing comics, I also write and draw, or at least I used to. I’ve focused more on writing in recent years, but here are some of my older works in comics.
BALLGAME
I was a fat kid who hated sports growing up. Then I became a Baseball enthusiast. Ballgame is the story of what happened in between - an ongoing, episodic memoir about sport, masculinity, health, success and failure. Out of print.
DEAD SINGERS SOCIETY
Dead Singers Society is Good Comics' flagship zine. It's an anthology with a lot of great contributors including John Riordan, John G. Swogger, Tim Bird, Louie Stowell and my Good Comics partners Samuel C. Williams, and Rozi Hathaway all writing, drawing or painting about our favourite dead singers. You can buy all four volumes in the Good Comics shop.
LONG DIVISIONS
"It’s hard not to hum along with the thoughts of Rex Harrison’s Doctor Dolittle when reading Paddy Johnston’s Long Divisions." - Andy Oliver, Broken Frontier
It would be cool to be able to talk to animals, right? Wrong! At least, it isn't fun for Ali, who can understand everything animals are saying, even though it's a meaningless cacophony most of the time. Long Divisions chronicles Ali's attempts to block out the noise of the animals, the city and her millennial generation's incessant problems as she searches for simplicity. Out of print.
GRIMES ART ANGELS FANZINE
I contributed some art and writing about Grimes' collaborations with Bleachers to the Art Angels fanzine, put together by Sammy Borras. You can buy it from her Etsy store.
AB POSITIVE #2
I contributed a silent comic, Autumn Takes Over, to issue 2 of AB Positive.