Happy birthday (yesterday) to Damian, who once constructed a greenhouse using recycled plastic water bottles.
Of course in real life he never messes up on dimensions.
The Elephant in the Shed
Category: cartoon
Creswell Crags, Fifty Thousand Years B.C.
Recent excavations at Creswell Crags shed new light on the domestication of dogs and cats . . .
Happy birthday to Sofia.
Sheepdog Satnav
Happy birthday to Roger, who doesn’t need satnav to find his way around the Dales.
Bass Rockers
Happy birthday (yesterday) to Bass Rocker Liz.
Clip Studio Doodles
Doodling with the ‘Real G-Pen’, Lasso Fill tool and Pastel in Clip Studio Paint
Mascots
A card for a Terriers supporter. The Trinity Wildcat is known as ‘Daddy Cool’ and the Leeds Rhino is ‘Ronnie’. In real life our Yorkshire sporting mascots are much better behaved.
Kippax
Kippax: from the Old Norse ‘Cippa’s Ash Tree’.
Happy birthday (yesterday) to soon-to-be Kippaxian Olivia.
Cats and Dogs
Perhaps this card for basketball player and cat lover Alex was inspired by seeing Benedict Cumberbatch in The Electric Life of Louis Wain last autumn.
Also celebrating a birthday recently, and the arrival of a new puppy in the house, was Annabel.
Newt Party
Happy birthday last Friday to Connie, who enthusiastically organised a memorable newt survey of our garden pond last summer.
The final count of smooth newts was 22, of which only 5 were female, so in this sample less than a quarter of the population is female. This is despite the fact that on the occasions that I’ve seen a newt caught by a blackbird at the pond I’ve often spotted the bright orange belly of the male.
Vis News Interview
Last month I was interviewed in Vis News, the Visual Narratives Academy Newsletter, by David Haden, who writes:
This issue we interview a fine British comics maker and illustrator who clevely combines digital methods with traditional looks. It’s a long and informative interview.
Vis News, March 2022
You can download a PDF of the article below (and it looks good if you can view it as double-page spreads).
