The Pupil of Nature

Here's a preview of my contribution to the next Solipsistic Pop, Tom Humberstone's excellent small-press anthology. It's called the Pupil of Nature. The final version is three pages long and has some spot colour, which I've omitted here. SP is such a fine institution I'd recommend anyone to get hold of the book and even contribute if the means allow.

Cartooning of note

Every now and then I am lucky enough to get a Note from Phil Barrett. This is a particularly splendid one.

Illustration

Here are some illustrations I've done recently for a variety of clients:

 This one is for Potentio, a learning and development consultancy. The brief was to show the difference between conventional training methods (in the two upper panels) and (in the lower two panels) what Potentio call social learning.

 

This is one of my regular cartoons/illustrations for the Investor Relations Society's quarterly newsletter, illustrating an article about how extra regulation means companies' annual reports have to get longer and longer.

A proposal for the cover of a book I'm working on.

And finally, a picture for the website of Real Peloton, the web's best cycling podcast.

 

Houzing Houndz gone bad

The Houzing Houndz appear to have been radicalised!

Back Then

I'm starting a webcomic, called Back Then. The idea is to do a page a week. It's here.

Household Gods

My entry for this year's Comica/Jonathan Cape/Observer Graphic Short Story Prize. Wish me luck.

What a relief print

I'm all in favour of the self-publishing revolution... in theory. In practice, I find dealing with dpi, formatting issues, printer calibration etc. etc. astonishingly difficult, distressing and boring, and I'd much rather have some specialist do it for me. But here's some DIY culture I can get behind. I've spent the weekend doing linocut prints of my son. Happy 11th week birthday.