How to draw Nuke Noodle

Click here to see a video The Dandy have just uploaded to their youtube channel wherein I explain how to draw Nuke engaged in an act of extreme violence.

Cartoon flurry

Three from Private Eye magazine. Not that happy with the first two, really, but the third one I am very fond of.

Nuke meets Black Bob

Black Bob, the Dandy Wonder dog gets resurrected in the next episode of my strip 'Nuke Noodle'. If you don't remember Black Bob, he was a sheepdog in scotland who's owner, Andrew Glenn, used to fall down a well every week. Bob would then contrive to rescue him using his doggie intuition before capturing some poachers. In my strip, that whole dynamic is ripped up and strewn across the glen, then stomped to little bits. People who are nostalgic for the kind of comics they read as a kid (there seem to be a few on the internet lately. Shouldn't they be using the post?) are gonna hate it.

Scott of the Antarctic

100 years ago today Captain Scott taught his band to play in the Antarctic. Their fingers were too cold to play the instruments. It was tragic. Just some shivery singing and gloved fingers thumping on guitars. Incredibly the album went to number one and stayed there for 13 weeks. Only to be knocked off the top by Adele's album '45 minutes of crying while eating cake'.

I think that paragraph is respectful enough to the incredible bravery of Scott, Oates and the rest, isn't it? Almost as respectful as this episode of Nuke Noodle from last year:

Nuke on the cover

Yep, so buy the Dandy which is out today! This cover is by Wayne Thompson who draws the new-look Bananaman. Or you can read old Bananaman strips by the late John Geering in The Beano.

Happy New Year!

For 2012, Nuke Noodle (it's in The Dandy, you must buy it! Despite what certain people are saying it's actually great, and that's not because I'm biased) is going through a re-vamp with the drawing. Now I am back in England and working full-time as a cartoonist I have more time to work on the pictures. I hope you like it. Here's a preview of the forthcoming Winston Churchill episode that will appear in about 4 weeks time. Until then, the artwork remains not so good...

And the last bit of business from 2011, my Private Eye Christmas cartoon.