Digging through archives yesterday prompted me with the idea of doing ( or recycling ) a cartoon a day. Here’s the first, this one on the theme of i.t. Continue reading One a day, here’s the first of a lot…let’s see how it goes.
Apart from ‘awesome’ which is the most overused and over-valued word in the language this phrase, used when on the phone and as substitute for ‘hang on’, is one of many that really grates with me. But then a lot … Continue reading Bear with me.
It’s a day for sorting, so here’s another. I used to do regular drawings for safety campaigns for a building company and this is one that I did for them about ladder security. The aim is to get people to … Continue reading Doctor, I have this ladder round my neck.
I came across this little drawing which was a reject of one of the drawings for my book “Some Missing Persons” I went to a boarding school in Lancashire and they imported a couple of barbers to cut our hair, … Continue reading Barbarious! Haircut young man?
The letter was from the Wold Newton and Yangtze Kiang Ship Canal Penny Bank, signed by Nicci Gristhorpe, Valued Client Liaison Supervisor (Non Internet). It said: We are delighted to offer you, Valued Client, our new Platinum Card plus Gold … Continue reading Bank Manager
Still found in gentlemen’s clubs and those seaside resorts popular with the retiring middle classes. Because Barber’s shop used to be a men-only place it was the main retail outlet for the London Rubber Company, whose population-preventing products were known … Continue reading Barber
Visitors to this remote and historic ex-hostelry, far up in the hills where rivers rise, always used to enjoy looking at the old photographs on the wall. These reflected a bygone age when the local produce show was held here, … Continue reading Ye Olde Sunne Dryed Tomatoe
Worth reflagging this from last Christmas, I’ve seen a few of these poor creatures around this week. It only take one trip to a Supermarket for the viewer to notice: ‘Men who’s been let loose in a supermarket with a list’. ‘Don’t come home without those items on the list that we never buy at any other time of the year’ is the order ringing around the head. Sending them on days like these is a cruelty beyond reason. They are not used to supermarkets at the best of times rarely getting involved in the shopping during the rest … Continue reading Man and the Christmas Supermarket Shopping stare.
Survival depends on the continued existence of huge motor cycles. In the spurious world of advertising, Bike Woman is a slinky young blonde beauty with nothing on beneath her leather jacket, which is otherwise well filled and unzipped to the … Continue reading Bike Woman
Another of those random drawings found on an old file stored away. Just think that if I’d not put it on here you would never have seen an elephant on a snowboard. Anything is possible with drawing. Continue reading Elephant on a snowboard….
Another of those random images found in the big ‘sort-out’ I have no idea now who this was for, if indeed anyone. Continue reading Man on the edge…
Here’s another of those missing persons, with words by Gordon Thorburn. The drawing is based on my old history master who was a gem of the species names Mr Trethewey. Even the name was right. He did, as I recall, … Continue reading Schoolmasters, where are they?
Paul Davies Cartoons & stuff 