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.
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
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….
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?
I’ve recently retired from my ‘other job’, I had respectable employment with a fine company of printers over in Gloucester.They gave me a very generous send-off last week,which was very gratifying. My daughter asked me if I cried, not bloody … Continue reading Fish…perfect for the hard of hearing.
…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
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
There I was looking at an idea for a little job I do regularly and for no apparent reason came up with a couple of dancers, this is a detail of the drawing.It’s the sort of drawing that some years ago I might have spent an enjoyable few hours working up, redrawing and then presenting on a fine piece of board as the ‘final’. With modern technology there is always no final. One can be faffing about for hours but the restricted budgets mean that one cannot afford to. Continue reading Sometimes it just happens…
We British know how to holiday, get yourself a half decent camera and a strong strap to hang it around your sunburnt neck, decent back pack with spares for the camera and a sausage roll to keep your energy level at the max and venture forth. Strong sturdy sun hat that you’ve had for several summers and has seen action on cricket grounds around the country and then get out there. Oh and don’t forget the regulation black socks to go with a decent pair of brogues, it might be hot out there but that’s no excuse for shoddy footwear. … Continue reading Finely balanced with good quality socks.
Modern inventions are at times just taken for granted. In the days when travel was glamorous and only the select few could fly or afford to, suitcases were carried and generally not by the traveller. Because this is what they were: travellers and not tourists. So now we all ‘carry’ our own cases and the result is that someone comes up with the idea of little wheels, so that airports are like shopping malls complete with one’s own trolley.They are also almost all now a regulation size and will have none of those fancy labels stuck on the leather with … Continue reading Wheels on a suitcase, whoever thought of them?
Having just returned from a holiday abroad to a job about how holidays used to be, here’s my rough idea for a piece on British hols.It happened now and again, the sun shone on this country and instead of going pink abroad we managed to go pink on our own shores.Occasionally one could spot a ‘dad’ contentedly bathing his lily-white feet in the almost warm English seas, whilst the recommended protection of a large white knotted hankie kept his head protected from the English rare sunshine. Shorts of course were never worn, what on earth was wrong with just rolling … Continue reading Holiday fun, would it were so simple!
Paul Davies Cartoons & stuff 