Happy birthday to Roger, who doesn’t need satnav to find his way around the Dales.
Sheepdog Satnav
Category: cartoon
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).
Vis News Interview
Link
Bird of the Year
Happy birthday to John, who waited for five hours for the black-browed albatross to show up at Bempton but was then rewarded with a flypast at eye-level.
Life at the Yellow House
Happy birthday to Van Gogh enthusiast Ivy. I’ve never been as keen on Gauguin, but Googling his self portraits I love the character he creates for himself. But definitely not a guy that I’d like to share the Yellow House at Arles with during the mistral season.
