Bittern alert

My friends have seen a Bittern and I haven't. I'm very annoyed. The good news is that my drawing has improved as a consequence.

La noche de Robbi Burns

I am not Scottish. Nevertheless I will be going to a friends house to eat a lentil based haggis with a twist. The twist is that it's wrapped in a real sheep's caul.

Coooeee!

Peekaboo! It was I, Delia Smith, all along.

January Geoscientist

Here's my New Year cartoon, appearing in the January edition of Geoscientist. I was hoping to do something new year topical, but ended up having to do a non themed one to get out of jail.

Giiiinnnnnnn Palaaacccce!!!

Finished my Gin Palace story at the weekend. A huge 5 page rollercoaster about a scientific experiment gone wrong. It's based on Miller and Urey's experiment to create amino acids in a primitive earth atmosphere, and thus potentially the building blocks of life in lab glassware. Miller and Urey were successful, but I do wonder how much leaching from the rubber tubing played a part.

I did this pretty quickly, not even bothering to use ruler and set square for the frames. I'm mostly pleased with the drawings, a few frames don't quite have 'it' but there you go. I'm spending a bit too much time on photoshop instead of the drawing board for my liking too. Will have to try and go back to the old ways of ink washes for the backgrounds. Ho hum.

The Title is Little Scary Monsters.

The work anthology

There's a new anthology on the horizon, with a deadline for submissions of April 2010, it's the Brave Brave Idiots anthology conceived by Anthony Merker. It's theme is the daily grind many comic artists go through in order to pay the bills and how we fit writing and drawing into it. I think Ant may have captured the zeitgeist with this idea, as it will ring true with many in the field. Speaking for myself, I've finally found a job I'm happy with, but there have been plenty of stinkers on the way, A wood preservative factory caked with Arsenic, Heinz foods (which was fine in itself, but I don't miss tasting the dried onion flakes in the morning), and a particularly dreadful experience as a secondary school technician amongst others (the first and hopefully last job I will walk out of). So hopefully I'll be able to get plenty of ideas. Here's Ant's mission statement and flyers.

So down those keyboards, clipboards, heavy machinery or pipettes, find a cosy place to hide and get writing!

Don't forget that Tabella 35% discount now.

35% Discount at Tabella

Tabella are running a new year's discount at 35%, so you can buy the likes of Hiyama, A Day in the life of Alfred and erm that book, what's it called, oh there's a 'T' in there somewhere, oh yes Thomas Wogan is Dead for trade prices!!!!