The Grey Golem
The Grey Golem is a Print-on-Demand book written and drawn by me and available from Lulu.com. It tells the story in 21 ink drawings of a creature that rises from beneath a boulder on top of desolate mountain and sets out on a journey, eventually gaining the awareness of one of life's greatest mysteries - the knowledge of his true self.
I started the book last year after deciding to try an experiment for a period of time to be more focussed and creative whilst doodling. So instead of doodling endless faces, figures and shapes, to no particular end, I wanted to produce 'finished' doodles that resulted in pen illustrations.
The doodle that had inspired this was the image that appears on the front cover (see the image on my Home page). I liked the look of the character and began to produce more 'doodles' using this creature. After about three more pictures (drawn with no particular idea in mind, simply starting at a point on the paper and seeing where the pen and my mind went from there) I decided to try and weave them into a narrative, and so this book came into being.
In producing the remaining illustrations I wanted to keep to the spirit of a doodle in that no pencilling was ever done (except from where I used an occasional speech balloon), each drawing was completed straight down in ink with a Mitsubishi Uni-ball Eye pen on A4 paper.
Print-on-Demand sites operate on the basis that if someone wants to buy a book then, and only then, a book is printed and delivered to that person. There are no print-runs and so there are no boxes containing hundreds of books lying in a corner of the author's house or a garage. If you want one it'll be printed especially for you!
I've sited "The Grey Golem" with Lulu.com and if you would like to buy a copy then please go to my Links gallery and then click on the link "The Grey Golem".
+++STOP PRESS - following the popularity of the paperback edition I have decided to bring out a hardback edition, printed at a larger size and on better quality paper. See the Links gallery and click on "The Grey Golem - deluxe edition" - +++
