More stuff from my last note/sketchbook, What else can I say? It's another Cautionary Tale: Don't drink and draw at the same time. For experts and pretentious cartoonist only.

 Panel from an unfinished comic strip (The Bone Idol), from a while back featuring my Manga spoof character, Sin-YU. Brush and ink with a bit of Letratone. Included here only because it was drawn on the now extinct Daler Truline illustration board. The best surface in the world. And they stopped making it. Bastards.

Original Sinners _ The Video!

My New Brush...

I'm a bit fussy when it comes to brushes & ink (Even though I'll sketch & draw on a paving stone with a burnt twig if the mood takes me..) I usually use W&N Series 7 sables.

This is inked (Today!) with a Daler "Dalon" No 0 brush & sketched out first with a blue pencil. The whole thing took 30 minutes.

I must be slowing down these days...

Notebook Sketches...

I carry a little notebook around to write my script ideas in, but being a compulsive "scribbler" I end up drawing cartoons instead. Hey, why not?

Here's a few pages from my recent "notebook", including the preliminary drawing for my birthday card to the Great S Clay Wilson. And you thought that I didn't plan this stuff out, didn't you?

S CLAY WILSON at 70!

S. Clay Wilson, the legendary ZAP cartoonist, creator of the Checkered Demon and notorious pioneer of Underground Comix is 70 today!

This drawing is brush/pen & ink on 2-ply Bristol Board and measures 30 x 21cm. If anyone wants to buy the original, I'll donate the fee to the SCW fund.

Original Sinners

This may look like a still from a Hen Party that just ended in a knife fight, but it's actually a photo from the July 2nd performance at Three Minute Theatre in Manchester's Affleck's Palace of my short comedy play, Original Sinners with Mabeth Davies as Lucifer.

Mabeth was also in my previous play, The Rembrandt and the Sausage and I'm writing a monologue: Holiday Snaps, for her...

Now, I'm not one to overly criticise, but I think that maybe Milton missed a trick or two with Paradise Lost, so I thought I'd helpfully fill in a couple of missing bits explaining that old rift between God and Lucifer and some of the complicated Creation stuff. And there's some gratuitous humour too.

But I really wanted a female Lucifer. I'll also post some pics of God and Adam soon, but you may want a drink first. You are duly warned.

Photos by Rachel Gibson

"And where do you think you're going?" (Detail)

At some point I thought that gags with horror themes (Yeah, yeah - Of course I know who Charles Addams is...) would be a good idea. This is a detail 'cos the original was too big to fit in my scanner(!)

But I wanted to post it up because I inked this with a W&N No3 brush, which is pretty hard to control. Although, the style of this cartoon is a nod to the late Mike Matthews, who handled the No3 sable like he was born with a brush in his hand... And I ain't joking.