"Boys Will Be Boys..."

I know, I know! Organised Religion, Patriarchal attitudes, Obscene cherubs, helpless mortals, and that guy with the white beard... What was I thinking?

Wake Up! Wake Up!

The Filthy Moods Hostel for Hostile Cartoonists has been a little empty lately, but not to worry, for I have had a bit of a poke around in the murky corners and the dusty windowsills to see what the previous guests have left behind.

Here and below are the items of lost property that turned up.

If they belong to you, please collect them  no later than yesterday. Standard handling fee of a slice of your sanity, and an ounce of your patience applies as usual.

A Tale of New Frontiers...

"...And the LORD said, Take thyselves to distant lands, and the inhabitants there should also be servants unto Me. You will discover these worlds and spreadeth My Words. And you will love and not abuse these peoples..."

So we did. But, we had firearms and dicks, and they didn't.

So it goes...

Neil Gaiman & The Book of Judges: 19 (Knockabout Comics)

This is a link to The "Outsider" : Neil Gaiman and The Old Testament, an academic study by Cyril Camus. You can read it here http://independent.academia.edu/CyrilCamus/Papers/404344/The_Outsider_Neil_Gaiman_and_the_Old_Testament

The "Outsider" features a good critique of Neil's contributions to Outrageous Tales from the Old Testament, (Knockabout Publications, 1987)

I illustrated the Journey to Bethlehem sequence, based on Judges: 19* This is the most reprinted/posted on the internet, comic strip of mine.

At the time of publication, some British politicians had a tough time getting their faces in the press, and were always on the lookout for a bandwagon or a scapegoat to give them publicity. Outrageous Tales became a scapegoat, and was reviled in the mainstream, tabloid press. You probably already know the story...

Meanwhile, years later, the book and its degenerate, blasphemous cartoons are now the subject of academic study and readers aren't too afraid that they have to cover the book's jacket in plain brown paper before sticking it on the shelf...

* See pages 87-88 of The "Outsider"...

(Note: The illustration, above was drawn today for this post - So you won't find it in the book!)

Manson and Delilah!

This was done for a FB group called "Creative Procrastination" run by Dom Harbot. It's the stuff we do when we should be working, but idle hands & all that... There's a monthly theme, and this is number two.

Marker pens on letraset layout paper. 25 mins start to finish for those who need to know this stuff.

Outrageous Tales from the Old Testament - Judges: 19 - Neil Gaiman

This is my most reprinted comic story. Probably because it was scripted by Neil Gaiman and also because of the trouble it got the various publishers into. Knockabout thought that this would be a commercial success, but the Government, the Church and the Legal System (All in cahoots with the tabloid press) reviled and condemned the book. Even Pox Magazine in Sweden nearly sacrificed its editor to a prison sentence.

In this Post South Park, Post Mel Gibson world it's a bit hard to believe all of the shit and nonsense that ensued. Especially, as these days the strip is reprinted and posted on the internet so often with no one so much as batting an eyelid! Well, apart from a few complaints...

I'll tell you about those later!