A big announcement

Note to self-must update blog more regularwise.

Anyway, I have a strip in The Dandy! It's called 'Robot on the Run' and will certainly go on to become the most famous strip Britain's longest running comic has ever run, bar all the others. Here's a pic:
Not sure exactly when it when will appear, but definitely soon. Check this space for more info.

waitin' for a superman

Here's one in this week's Spectator.

Doctor Who is that supposed to be?

Been a while since I did a caricature. This one of current Doctor Who Matt Smith is for the Cartoonists' Club's brand new caricature competition. Bit of an exercise in Adobe Illustrator this one. Never used it much, so just stretching my legs around it. Pleased with the result. Other entries can be seen here.

the return of God

Here's a cartoon from the new issue of Private Eye, featuring my latest cartoon character 'God'. He's kind of a superhero, but he doesn't have an origin story like Batman or Superman, he just kind of exists. Powers: Lives forever. Creates things. Burning bush power. Beard. Don't make him angry by being gay or he will burn you forever in his underground God-cave.

win win lose situation

Over on the Cartoonists' Club website I have finally, finally, finally won their weekly cartoon competition. It was proving a bit hellish to win the thing, but after one year of entries (actually I probably entered less than 20 times-but this was competition number 52) I only done it. The theme was 'hot', set by Mr Wilbur Dawbarn (his site is listed in the links over on the left) and it wasn't supposed to have any words. 'Captionless' in easily penetrable cartoonists' jargon. It's down below. I am also on the cover of their monthly newsletter 'The Jester' which you can't read because it is more full of dangerous information than wikileaks, but I think it's allowed for me to post the cover. They had a theme too-politics/government.

It's not a complete win win situation, however, due to the sad passing of John Callahan. Quite an amazing man and a brilliant cartoonist. Even more remarkably he was a quadriplegic after a motorcycle accident he suffered when he was only 21 and used to draw with a pen clutched in both hands. If you can find one of his cartoon collections, buy it-his dark sense of humour is an absolute joy. But you've probably heard of him-and if you haven't, you should've.

Colourin' in

Another experiment (as was Dingus, below) in using digital colour here, in this cartoon that was published in the June issue of Prospect. I'm playing with removing lines as you can see. I rather like the result-more than the joke really, which is not that great.

Dingus is here!

The complete adventure of Dingus is now available on a crisp sheet of A4 paper for only 8 groats.