scribbling

Hello- I'm still here- seems ages since writing my last bit of nonsense.
I blame the Winter solstice, and that other festival that happens around this time...umm...something to do with puddings, and cheap sofas at DFS, I think.
Anyway... I finally have a new computer! and a new monitor! woo!
So- what do I find myself doing? After having spent days setting up all my techie drawing gizmos-
I go back to drawing with old fashioned dip pens-  (Hunt '102' Crow Quill dip pen, and Rowney Kandahar Indian ink, before you ask).
Sigh- ah, well- I’m sure the novelty will wear off soon- and once I’ve accidentally stabbed meself with the nib a few more times, it'll be back to the electronic drawing tablet.

I s’pose I should post a cartoon while I'm here- this one (drawn on the old PC) was in the Oldie magazine a month or so ago.

wibble

Ever wanted to give up the rat race? Work from home?
So did I- had a go at it for about a year.

I ended up speaking to the pot plants.

This cartoon is in the current Reader's Digest.
 

awkward glance to camera

A couple of cartoons in Private Eye-

This one drawn just before the computer went pop- haven't drawn anymore since.

Just as well it's Xmas- when the magazines seem to go into hibernation- so maybe they won't notice my lack of productivity for a bit. Hope to be back in the world of electronic gizmos soon, so with luck I won't have forgotten how to draw by then...

I'm sure the multi millionaire Ricky Gervais won't lose any sleep about this cartoon poking fun at his latest comedy on the BBC- I hear he's won awards n stuff- quite the success, apparently.

Look! The little bloke has fallen over! hahahahahahhaha!

Genius

 

fzzzt crackle bzzzz

Bah- everything is still broken- and i've got a bad back- it's cold outside too.
But!
The Spectator has one of my cartoons this week- woo hoo!

Speaking of said magazine- was up in posh bit of London last week for a private view of an exhibition of Spectator cartoons- held at a small gallery just off Bond Street. The cartoons were all up for sale, and a couple of mine sold on the night- so maybe i'll be able to afford to buy a new computer and start drawing again soon.

Anyway...it was a good evening out- and i met quite a few fellow cartoonists- amazingly normal and a nice bunch of people (which is odd, when you look at our dark, bitter and twisted thoughts on paper)

have you tried turning it off and on again?

my computer has gone bang...te one i use to draw my cartons-so i'm reduced to wrriting this bLog post on an old lllllllllllllllaptop###&.

Unlikelly ppp= tttthat i'll be drAwing much til i get a reppplacemnet.
Thaat ;l teach me to not use pens paper n ink.

a wizard idea...

Lawks- I haven't posted for a while- mostly due to lack of published stuff.

I'm in the situation where quite a few cartoons have been taken by magazines, but they haven't found their way onto the printed page yet.

But this one did- phew...It's in the latest issue of Prospect magazine

I will explain it- cos I know you won't 'get' it (yes, you in the blue stripy shirt, and the stupid hair).

Anyway- it's about tales of famous writers who supposedly worked their way out of poverty by writing in coffee shops. Hey, here's an idea- don't go to coffee shops if you're hard up- Five quid for a coffee and a bun?

Pah!

Hmmm...

From the latest issue of Saga magazine-

Yeah...I know, I know.
Not very PC.
But you know it's true.

(probably explains why I'm single...sigh)