The Original Sinners...

   

 You will all know by now that the Filthy Moods Historian Society for Hysterical So 'n' So's doesn't cut corners when it comes to digging up the truth about really important stuff...

My Hidden Shallows...

"When the Truth is found to be lies/And all the Joy within you dies..." Who said that? Was it Grace Slick at Woodstock, or Jim Carrey in Cable Guy?

Anyway, here's another Sketchbook Cartoon drawn today...

George and the Goldfish...

I'm sure that this happens more often that you think...

Top-Secret Shit-Kicking Dancing Trousers!!

Abandon Ship! Here's one I drew today in my sketch book. What's going on? Don't worry, everyting is explained in the picture. No, really. Have a look...

The Cruellest Month...

Another sophisticated and insightful political drawing loaded with biting commentary and cartoon tree-stumps..!

inter nos (scene 2)

inter nos (scene 1)

Julia's Problems...

Yep. Julia and her "problems". It's all in the caption. Well, it's as much as I know...

Thank you for caring.

"Virgins and Unicorns"...

Presenting another muster of snaggle-toothed survivors and conscientous objections from the latest foray into the imaginary battlefield that is the Filthy Moods Sketching Book...

Some of 'em didn't survive and ended up in the waste basket, or filed away in case I get desperate next time. But, those who did make it, in the name of Those Of Us Who Should Know Better, are presented below in another "slide show" of crude attention seeking, false bravado and trademark shameless bluster.

Please scroll downwards...

NB: The "Virgins & Unicorns" is a reference to the great B Kliban cartoon with the pantomime horse and the jaded prostitute. So I sort of "borrowed" the general idea for this drawing. Apologies to the late Mr Kliban. 

The Vanity of the Trees...

Except for a few hungover scribbles, this is the first Filthy Moods sketch of 2013. And while we ended the previous annus on a predictably sinister note (with the Serpent & Eve drawing), here's a bit of light relief before we delve into the usual darker stuff...

Fish Containing Broken Dude

It's, er... a fish containing... oh, c'mon! You know that I make this stuff up as I go along...

Concentration Is Essential...

Well, it's Monday, and while most people in the civilized world (Wherever that is) have rested or indulged their selves for the weekend, here at the Filthy Moods Workshop for Pretentious Cartoonists, there has been no such leniency.

Hell, no! Apart from some gratuitous drinking and uncharacteristic kindness to animals (Don't ask!) it's been sweat, blood and expensive marker pens all the way!

Yes! I have brooked no compromise in my search to uncover concealed truths, suppressed knowledge and the hidden secrets of the ID! I have traveled far into the depths of my tiny brain and paddled in the murky swamp of my childhood and sloshed about in the, er... er, the mixed metaphors of my adolescence. You won't believe what I found in there! 

Anyway, you're not interested in that stuff, are you? So instead I drew some "funny" pictures.

Enjoy.

Andy Nukes!

I don't usually do unsolicited "greetings" cards or drawings, but I'll make an exception for cartoonist, Andy Nukes. 

I know his stuff through Facebook and there's a good selection on Flickr too.

Andy's cartoons/drawings are full of the obvious pleasure that he gets from doing them, and he has more ideas than most of us would know what to do with! He draws as though he is the reincarnations of a Hermetic Monk, a demonic woodcut engraver and an '80's Punk Comix artist!

I also find that his cartoons/drawings have an optimism that I understand but can't duplicate in my own work. But mostly, his stuff is great fun to look at.

Oh, yeah... And today is his birthday.

Happy birthday, Andy!

Enjoy.



     

Percy Wyndham Lewis

Wyndham Lewis was an odd figure on the English art scene in the first half of the 20th century. Part crank (politically) and part genius (artistically) his popularity seems to come and go. I drew this after seeing an exhibition in Manchester around 2003