Wednesday, October 28, 2009
off
Off to visit family for the next few days so probably won't be posting anything much until next week.
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Tuesday, October 27, 2009
from the archives
A6 Seawhite of Brighton sketchbook number 7, beginning May '96.
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Monday, October 26, 2009
out in March
A little news here about the release of the first three titles from the DFC Library, including my very own Good Dog, Bad Dog collection, due next spring.
Here's the cover, sans type and untrimmed...
Three further titles to follow in the autumn but the last I heard (a week ago) was that the decision hadn't yet been made as to which strips would be chosen. Plenty of strong material to choose from though so it should be a good line up. I know at least one of my favourite strips had made it to the shortlist, and Mirabilis seems to be confirmed, but more than that I cannot say.
UPDATE: Available to pre-order from Amazon here. See, it's a real book, with an ISBN and embarrassing author blurb and everything! How exciting.
Friday, October 23, 2009
full of events
Big beardy cartooning god Steve Bell (speaking in Cambridge last night) on drawing Gordon Brown: "his face is full of events".
undemonstrative heads
Thursday, October 22, 2009
quick, post something now...
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
none
None of today's drawings are good enough. They will not do.
But that's okay.
I shall show you something better tomorrow.
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
from the archives
A6 Seawhite of Brighton sketchbook number 7, beginning May '96.
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Incidentally, I just realised today that last week's "from the archives" post was missing. I did everything else but forgot to press the "publish" button. Oops. It's here now.
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Monday, October 19, 2009
my publisher
So today I had a lovely meeting in Oxford with my publisher (oh, the childish glee it affords me every time I use that phrase) to talk about the children's novel I'm writing and drawing for him and to sign the contract for said work. And we did all the talking, which was all very lovely and helpful, but I forgot to say "Oh, shall I sign the contract now then?" at any point. Which would have been sensible because once I've done that they owe me some money. Oh well. I guess we'll just do it by post now, which is fine, but I'd been rather looking forward to just a little bit of ceremony and occasion.
But still ... I'm writing a book! That's a bit exciting.
Wonder how you do it.
Ah, heck, how hard can it be?
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Friday, October 16, 2009
international interest
a bird and three bears
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Thursday, October 15, 2009
sea monsters
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Wednesday, October 14, 2009
sugar
And in other news... this:
in ink on paper, by me, has become this:
in icing sugar and edible paints, by my friend Lucy's mother's friend, Claire.
Full story here.
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Do-Re-Mi, the first draft
Do, a note to start things off,
Re, a note to follow do,
Mi a note to follow re,
Fa a note to follow mi,
Sol a note to follow fa,
La, a note to follow sol,
Ti, a note to follow la,
Which will bring us back to do...
Think this may need a bit more work, Richard. What do you think?
Oh, and how's the architecture coming along by the way?
Regards
Oscar
grizzly bear Thursday
A couple of the bears previously seen here are now playing away at Grizzly Bear Thursday with more to follow at a later date. (Proprietor Lizz has mistaken the bear's ukulele for a guitar but I blame my drawing more than her perception). Delve into the archives over there and you'll find a fine contribution from friend of this blog Mr Darryl Cunningham too.
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
from the archives
A6 Seawhite of Brighton sketchbook number 7, beginning May '96.
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Monday, October 12, 2009
bits and ends
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Friday, October 09, 2009
looking for the boy
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Thursday, October 08, 2009
a look
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Wednesday, October 07, 2009
back to the bear
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Tuesday, October 06, 2009
from the archives
A6 Seawhite of Brighton sketchbook number 7, beginning May '96.
All the military-looking stuff was for a job for a video games publisher (whose name I can't quite recall) which I did, I fear, rather badly.
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Monday, October 05, 2009
URT podcast
Go here for the latest Unified Review Theory podcast from Neill and James Cameron, featuring hilarious swearing and a "wildly incoherent discussion that takes in such subjects as Flying Hippy Yoga Monkeys, Sleep Deprivation as an Easy and Cost-Effective Form of Torture, and the Amazing Phenomenom of Unihemispheric Slow-Wave Sleep Which James is Totally Bored By."
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scraps
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