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Ooooops!

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Health and safety, there it is in a nutshell. There’s nothing really very funny about slipping with a hot cup tea but somehow a cartoon makes it seem ‘different’. A little like the violence on Tom and Jerry, it’s not quite the same. I’ve done a lot of cartoons on ‘health and safety’ over the years and this one dates back quite a few years, so many that I forget who the client was.Probably a building company that used to commission cartoons about safety for them. I hope that they had some effect or someone’s slipped up. Continue reading Ooooops!

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A fine piece of sign writing.

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This in a shop window just before Christmas. The vacancy can’t have been for long as the shop, which sold utter tat, has now closed. One of those places where you might buy a shirt in a box and find no arms on it when you open it on Christmas day, or even worse, someone else does. You would , of course return and expect an exchange or money back, but tough, that outlet has now gone. I’m no expert at English, and grammar is not my strong point, but you can see from this that whoever did it was … Continue reading A fine piece of sign writing.

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You need to get used to rejection.

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It’s a phrase that every creative person has to get used to but so be it. My drawing of the school rugby player was not that well liked by the head of the school it was for. He wanted a younger looking player.Well he looks young enough to me and I’m blowed if I’m going to try and make him look cute,that’s just a bit creepy. So what to do? First reaction was ‘He had a rough and he approved that, so he can whistle!’ Second reaction is the professional sales approach of ‘he can have whatever he wants, and … Continue reading You need to get used to rejection.

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Sometimes rough is better than finished…must try harder.

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Asked to do a drawing for a local school and roughed this out. It’s a rugby playing boy’s school so rather than glorify the first team this is for those who try hard but fail miserably, but at least they try.No pun intended.This character is close to home, I never amounted to much as a rugby player.I went to a rugby playing boy’s school and one of my P.E. reports actually said: ‘Tries hard;fails miserably’.It’s a long time ago now and I’ve forgiven the writer, the normal psychopathic games teacher who thought that an hour on the field in the … Continue reading Sometimes rough is better than finished…must try harder.

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Frozen Rose

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No drawings, no santa jokes, no robins, no holly or joke berries. It’s a frozen rose, an image taken by my father now 92 who was a really passionate photographer. Sadly he is now unable to see to take images like this.He wasn’t a professional, he was a policeman many years ago now, so he was used to looking out for things. It’s this year’s Christmas card from him, and me to you. I’m posting early for Christmas.Have a good one. Continue reading Frozen Rose