Following on from last weeks Best SB Photos of 2020 post, here are my ten favourite illustrations of the four issues we made in 2020. Sideburn has always used a lot of illustration, with some artists have only one appearance in the mag, others becoming regulars. Eight of these pieces were commissions, two were supplied as part of portfolio features. I've purposely only chosen one piece of work from each artist, and not included artwork we've used on our merch (which we also l

Guy Martin's people asked us reprint the T-shirt Guy and Sideburn came up with back in 2017. It had to be a design that could be sold on his own Proper website and through Sideburn. It had to be something he'd wear himself, so we came up with the idea of a version of the Sideburn 24 cover, but using Guy's most famous helmet designs. Toria of Stay Outside Studio created the artwork and the five colour design was screenprinted in the UK, and this time it's printed on a lovely

Off-topic Sunday on a Friday. Toria Jaymes of Stay Outside Studio has not only been busy creating Sideburn St Mert for us, she has been working with FIFA and Twitter to big up the England Women's World Cup Soccer team. England have their second game of the tournament, that's being held in France, tonight (Friday, 8pm UK time), so it's a good time to share Toria's news. Here's what she says... I was incredibly excited when I was asked by Twitter to be a part of their #WomenInF

Here is a post explaining the back story about how our wonderful new St Mert artwork came to fruition. It makes sense to start with the email I sent to Toria Jaymes of Stay Outside Studio, on 21 March this year. I'm going to add more background as we go along... Hi Toria I visited a museum and there was a brass rubbing of a medieval knight. I want to replicate it, but as a motorcycle racer. It could be a '60s style Gary Nixon or Mert Lawwill style. I have a thing about St Mer