Eyeballs & Aliens !! (A Few Sketches...)

Good afternoon. Are we drunk yet?

Welcome to a long overdue "update" of Filthy Moods - The Blog That Is Willing To Sacrifice Originality For The Greater Good 

But don't worry, we got Culture by the bucket-full, and more Integrity than you can shake a politician at.

Also, we got Cartoons!!! ....

The Mounting Goat

"A Sound of Thunder..."

Good evening, afternoon, morning or, "Hello" to you in whichever time-zone you are renting or inhabiting right now. Or then, or afterwards, as the case may be.

Filthy Moods, the Time Machine for Clocksuckers Everywhen is back before your very eyes! We've got Disgruntled Dinosaurs, Traumatised Trees, Misanthropic Monsters and Abject Alliteration simply for your amusement...

Careful how you go, and mind the dinosaurs...

Big Fish. Small Pond. Sherlock's Unknown Case...

Yes, I know!

It's Sunday Sketches, done on a Sunday... Today in fact! And if the Blogger Slide Show works then you can see more. If not it's a "scroll & click" kinda' show...

Fingers crossed...

...and...

...another couple from inter nos (see previous posts...)

...Thank you for browsing! And finally...

"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?

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!)

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!