Eight Hundred Thousand Hills Cover

Cover for the Eight Hundred Thousand Hills short, Pen and Ink, A3 hopefully this will be made into a short comic book, the story was written by Andrew Kerr and I of course did all the illustration. I was first asked to produce just a nine panel piece, but I felt that the story could be spread out, and would have a better feel if it was expanded visually. Keep an eye out for more work from the Smyth/Kerr team coming in the future.

Today I shall be producing the cover for Eight Hundred Thousand Hills, stay tuned for the result should hopefully be up tonight...

Recent re-design for a Manowar cover, Into Glory Ride, check out the original and you will see why I re-designed it. Pen and Ink A2  

Screen print, War Horse, A3

currently available in Ross's online auction

Above is a guest page I produced for Uproar Comics publication Zombie Hi issue 4, the story was written  by Kevin 'Gio' Logue, and my illustration.

Eight Hundred Thousand Hills

In 1994 I lived with my father, every morning he liked to listen to the radio...
One morning he woke me, looking very scared. He said we had to leave right away, i asked why...he said "they are coming to cut down the tall trees."

As we ran from our village he held the little radio to his ear...behind us I could hear people that I knew screaming.

That night we slept in a ditch outside our village...
Then my father went to find food...he never came back

Later I crept back to the village. The bodies of my neighbours lay outside their houses...being eaten by dogs...

For ninety days I hid in the well behind our house.The water meant i had to sleep standing up...Only sometimes did hunger make me brave enough to try to find some food.
One night I was spotted by some militia men, they weren't much older than me...when they saw me theey said, "look cockroach"...

I ran away...but one man caught me with his machete...I fell down...

...and they took turns raping me as i died...seventeen of them...i counted
Thats how i left Rwanda....The End

 Above, a short story page for Andrew Kerr, this piece is telling the story of a young girl in Rwanda in 1994. Illustration Matthew H. Smyth, words Andrew Kerr

This is the start up page for Lethal Comics, I am Matthew H. Smyth, Illustrator. Here you will be able to find my latest works and also keep up to date on any new developments. I am currently working on a number of projects, writing and illustrating my own comic, and also experimenting with different methods of producing my art work. Well have a look around and please let me know what you think, I will be updating my page every Wednesday, and more if I can get round to it.

Matthew H. Smyth