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Cat Paparazzi

6th July 200915th June 2014
Click! Click! Flash! Flash!

A quickie for today. Animal + occupation = ideas.

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Hobbits

5th July 200915th June 2014
Gandalf and the boys.

What shall I draw today? [Scans DVD shelf hurriedly.]

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Lordship Lane, south London. Thursday, 3:47pm.

4th July 200915th June 2014
Street in the heat

I feel sorry for all the school kids who have to wear their ties during the hot weather.

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The Getaway

3rd July 200915th June 2014
There may be trouble ahead...

I hate drawing cars. Too many lines. It helps if you design your own, of course.

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Grandfather meets granddaughter

2nd July 200915th June 2014
What you looking at?

Characters from a personal project.

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Who’s coming for tea? 07 plus added cats

30th June 200915th June 2014

I have been drawing every day – honest! I’ve just not been posting…

tea time

Here’s the last part of the tea-time epic.
I’ve been out in the garden talking to the tomato plants and observing the local cat politics. I may have mentioned this before but my neighbourhood has an embarrassment of feline riches, and my next-door neighbours have (amongst other animals) NINE cats – a fact I find so astonishing I keep repeating it (NINE cats!).
Here’s a few of them:
Cats!
The Great Darkness belongs to my upstairs neighbour and is very fat, elderly and possibly the most bad-tempered cat I’ve ever encountered. Do not approach without a big stick.
The Daft Ginger One is the youngest of The Nine and generally harmless. It finds snails totally fascinating.
Bob is the only one of The Nine whose real name I know and is the only friendly one, which is a pity as he’s a complete fleabag. I also suspect mental issues. Will fight with all-comers.
More Cats!
Until I saw The Evil Stripy One I hadn’t realised cats could frown. Possibly the most dangerous of The Nine, though the ‘Incident with the Hose’ probably didn’t help.
Bob’s mate lives a few doors down and is a total ‘fraidy-cat. For some reason Bob tolerates him so they hang out a lot. He reminds me of the cat from Kiki’s Delivery Service so I probably should have drawn him with a bead of manga-sweat or something.
The Ginger One From Across the Street is a player in the politics of the neighbourhood. He occasionally (foolishly) ventures across into the territory of The Nine but soons learns the better of it.

Also I popped into London Underground Comics‘ LUC176 event on Saturday. Ellen Lindner kindly sold some of my comics from her table (you should check out her masterpiece Undertow) so I could go and have a sneaky beer outside with my friend Sam. It was certainly a great venue – I hope the event was a success for everyone.

Lastly, my pic of me aged 100 received an honourable mention from the honourable Phil McAndrew in his competition, which was nice news to wake up to. The winner was drawn by the amazing Britt Wilson.

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Who’s coming for tea? 06

26th June 200915th June 2014
tea time
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Who’s coming for tea? 05

25th June 200915th June 2014
tea time
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Action Artist

23rd June 200915th June 2014
With a hair-trigger pen

Action Artist

I didn’t have time to draw a ‘tea time’ pic today but tomorrow I’m all set to get back on the case. Here I am in my ‘ready-for-action’ artist’s gear (hairy legs, model’s own).

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Who’s coming for tea? 04

22nd June 200915th June 2014
tea time
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Who’s coming for tea? 03

21st June 200915th June 2014
tea time
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Who’s coming for tea? 02

20th June 200915th June 2014
tea time
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Me@100

19th June 200915th June 2014
me@100

Crosser than ever.

Me aged 100. I expect I’ll still be at war with the local cat population. This is for a competition set up by Phil McAndrew.

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Who’s coming for tea? 01

19th June 200915th June 2014
tea time

Tea time.

Following on yesterday’s post, I might as well continue with this character. I feel some bad poetry coming on.
Is it ‘with whom’ of ‘with who’? I can never remember.

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D.S.E.D.

18th June 200915th June 2014
Draw something every day!

No. 1

I’m nailing my (new) creed to the church door here. I’ve never had the urge to draw constantly – I can go weeks without drawing and I don’t miss it one bit. I’ve loads of nice expensive sketchbooks which just felt too beautifully pristine to fill with my silly scribblings (my drawing paper of choice is Tesco value copier paper) and so sit empty, yellowing and neglected.

But I’ve probably not done myself any favours. Development cannot come without practice.

So here goes.

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