Odd types,dangerous faces.

” What’s his name then? “ Franklin ” What’s he like? “ Big, bold, bit hard of hearing so tends to shout when speaking, does n’t know he’s doing it. The meeting was a get-together of the type crime  unit, a collection of faces that would not look out of place on one of their own wanted posters. They were all tasked with the search for one particular face. “Who does this Franklin hang out with then”? Well the whisper is that it’s someone called Elle. She’s Swiss interjected another, continuing: Cool lines – works a lot in banking. You … Continue reading Odd types,dangerous faces.

Rough seas again, eighteen days later.

So here we are eighteen days later and ‘Rough Seas Rough’ got a little more finished, but not completely. Sometimes there’s a temptation to over finish, and when does a cartoon become an illustration. For me they are always cartoons these days. I’ll work on this drawing and it will be interesting to see if it gets better or worse. This drawing reveals my fear of small boats out at sea. I used to go on holiday to North Wales and could never understand the attraction that people had to set out to sea in what seemed to me to be … Continue reading Rough seas again, eighteen days later.

Netball woman, and other sporting moments.

This is another drawing from the archives recently found. It’s from a book called ’43 Unsporting Moments’ and was written with my old collaborator Gordon Thorburn. The book dates from 1996, so getting on a bit now. I’ll quote here from the text which is about a fixture at a prison: ” This girl, who would have been the dominant personality in any East German field-events team, did not seem especially keen to join in the sport today. She gave the impression that among her preferred activities was having college girls on toast for breakfast…” The lady on the outside … Continue reading Netball woman, and other sporting moments.

Flying parrot and ‘Essence of Jungle’.

Here’s drawing I did many years ago and it’s the bottom half of a poster, this version with all the rough bits straight from the artwork, no digital messings here. I sometimes look back at work done in the past and the hairs on the back of my neck stand up with embarrassment at what I produced ( and charged good money for, in those days the money was good! ). I must have had a brass neck. This is an exception but in this case the client was myself, it was for my own promotional poster and was eventually printed … Continue reading Flying parrot and ‘Essence of Jungle’.

Jesse Fuller – The Lone Cat

Originally posted on The Immortal Jukebox:
‘Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather must recognise that it is he who is asked. In a word, each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.’ (Viktor Frankl) ‘I was leaving the south to fling myself into the unknown … I was taking a part of the South to transplant … To see if it would grow differently, if it could drink of new and cool… Continue reading Jesse Fuller – The Lone Cat