Yet another of Gordon’s golden words, this time he’s talking about artists… I suspect that Mr. T is not a great fan of the abstract and having just visited an exhibition in London by a German artist who is almost exactly … Continue reading Artist
Back to the book, here’s Gordon’s take on the newspaper seller.It’s one of my favourite subjects! Where on earth do they come from.I recall there being one in Manchester who, if things were slow, would write out on the headline board: The Pope! No news. It would improve sales for the day with worried catholics buying, only to find there was indeed, no news about the Pope. See more of Mt Thorburn’s stuff at http://www.gordonthorburn.co.uk and there’s more of my stuff on http://www.pauldaviescartoons.co.uk Any sightings should be reported to the Natural History Museum. There are plenty of people who stand about … Continue reading Newspaper Seller
By way of a change I’ve been on a walking holiday in Crete where we had a leader telling us exactly where we should go. A retired police officer from Nottinghamshire he was not only good company but also good at … Continue reading I’ve been proceeding…
This is another from the book, in this case the illustration is not quite faithful to the words, but there you go! Please note the pork pie in the plastic cover, which in days of yore would benefit from being … Continue reading The fly is on the inside…
…occurs in both sexes. Driven out of populous areas by larger, more aggressive types, the remaining few Bookshop Owners survive in nooks and crannies. Cyril Trumpet was the last scion of the family Trumpet, owners and runners of Trumpet & … Continue reading Bookshop Owner
Will probably be extinct by 2020. Rambler’s winter and summer coat is tweed, with check shirt, heather mixture stockings and stout boots. The male often has a deerstalker or a flat cap, the female a balaclava which rolls up to … Continue reading Rambler
Sometime in the 1970s, a design engineer had the idea of putting a computer in a car. At that instant, an entire breed was sentenced to death and we can expect Man Who Mends Cars to be virtually extinct in the western world by about 2015AD. Then, there will remain only a few isolated individuals within whom will reside the last shreds of knowledge about how to repair cars rather than psychoanalyse them and reconstitute them with plug-in components. By then, except in Famagusta and at Classic Car rallies, you will never see a Ford Cortina nor any kind of … Continue reading Man who mends cars.
Isolated examples may survive in remote parts of Scotland. One of the strangest varieties of all, Proper Doctor only existed in one sex and did not have adolescent stages (vide Goat Woman). Proper Doctor simply appeared as an adult male aged 45 with his Gladstone bag already battered. In daylight, he would often wear plus-fours and a tweed jacket with leather elbow patches (vide Schoolmaster). If he came to see you at night, he would be dressed in black tie and dinner jacket. Proper Doctor’s role was one of reassurance and confidence building. He was not familiar with the panoply … Continue reading Proper Doctor
I did a book. It took some time. I did not write it myself, in fact I wrote none of the golden words therein. They are all hand crafted by writer Gordon Thorburn http://www.gordonthorburn.co.uk I had a hand in the idea, and I did all the drawings. I’m going to let you take a look at it from these pages over the next few weeks and,like a lot of drawings , they sometimes work better with words. In this particular case they look lost without them. Mr Thorburn is responsible for a lot of words over the years, including … Continue reading Some missing persons…
We live in a town which is blessed by many trees, many large trees with lots of leaves. They are starting to drop and collect in the road. The local council will be clearing these leaves and have recently started to do so, first with the advance ‘guard’ of leaf blower man.Fully kitted out with what appears to be and sounds like a small motorbike on his back, he advances down the road blowing the leaves from his manufactured wind, into the road. Off the pavement and into the road. This is so that he can be followed by leaf … Continue reading Leaf blower man returns…
All the effort of the past months that my wife, Elisabeth Le Vierge has put into creating some really super paintings has come to fruition in an exhibition with other talented artists at the Garron Centre in beautiful Herefordshire. http://www.llangarron.info … Continue reading Hanging pictures and a great day out.
I do a regular drawing for a magazine called the Best of British, and this is one of the series.The articles generally reflect on past English institutions and the changes we see today.We were never very good at cooking over here, but now we are better at it than the French!They seem to be unlearning everything they have had for centuries and we seem to be taking in what they are discarding. That aside those programmes on the telly featuring people trying to be master chefs is part of the inspiration for this drawing. They appear to spend three hours … Continue reading E is for eating…
Paul Davies Cartoons & stuff 