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.

Introducing Dingus

Coming soon! Dingus! The world's greatest cartoon character of the world!

Here

Self Portrait With Plastic Chair. Finger painting on baby skin, 30mx20m, 2010

Easily Fooled

Eagle eared readers of this blog will know that 'Animal Midnight' is actually a song from Stephen Malkmus' second solo album 'Pig Lib'. What a schoolboy error I made there.

So we've had a general election in Britain and the result is all bullshitty. Seems like we're stuck with Cameron, but hopefully Mr Clegg can put a spanner in the Conservatives plans to privatise everything and put people out of work. I smell austerity measures. Seriously, have you ever heard the word austerity used so much until recently? Electoral reform would be good though. To take your mind off the impending horror, I present a strip I made years ago by cutting pictures out of an old Dukes of Hazard annual. I think it makes some valid points.

Animal Midnight

I have decided to name posts after songs by Pavement to celebrate the current reunion tour which I'm gonna totally miss. Unless they extend it and come to Moscow. Come on lads! Do the decent thing. This is another non-seller that is tenuously linked to the title of this post.

And this one, also tenuously linked, is in Reader's Digest. I sold it to them sometime last year. Two rabbit based gags in two months in Digest. Coincidence? Or is it because it's Easter? (Or was a while ago). Happy Magic Jesus Come Alive Again Day for back then anyway.