HUMOURfest "New Needles"

I did this painting in 1992 for the (then) annual HUMOURfest exhibition/competition held in Foligno (Northern Italy) and taken around Europe. Back then you could draw or paint any size and send in about 4 or five entries. There was a different theme every year. The competition was open to cartoonists worldwide and they attracted a lot of entries.

The theme for this was Arms and Disarmament. One of the other pictures (Playpen of the Gobs) was put on permanent display at the Town Hall in Foligno and they made a beautiful black and white print of it. (It's on the Blog somewhere!)

I did around 20 or so pictures in the 1990's for HUMOURfest. They later switched the competition to bi-annual and ruled that all entries had to be a uniform A4 size.

But, I did get 2nd prize for 1995 cinema themed competition, which co-incidentally also featured Mickey Mouse. This time not as the embodiment of capitalism corrupting his neighbours, but being fingered by a buttery Marlon Brando in Last Tango in Disneyland.

Sweet dreams everyone.

Sketch/Colour Comp for Painting

Those of you who know me probably have suspected that as an arteest, I have occasional pretensions of mooching my way into a gallery somewhere and inflicting my sophisticated and worldly yet humbly optimistic visions upon the greater public.

However, I don't have any sharks that need pickling and I can't be bothered paying assistants to do my work for me. Plus, I can draw, so I've no fucking chance.

  Maybe I'd best stick to cartoons...

Frankenplug: Unsound... In Colour!

The Black & White version is up on my other Blog (UK Underground Comix!), so here's it is in lurid colour (Except for the Black & White panel which is a sneaky reference to Franquin's Idees Noire) See... I do plan this stuff out before I inflict it on you...

Frankenplug!

Somebody hide my crayons! Surely this sort of thing was bad enough in black & white? Oh, well... here's a Frankenplug strip in colour.

From the Tomb (Colour Sketch)

This is a coloured sketch of a cover idea that I planned a while back, to send to Peter Normanton when he was publishing his terrific From the Tomb magazine.

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.

Limerick Dept...

There was a young woman named Mable
Got impregnated 'pon a table.
In an alcohol mist
And a Biblical Twist
The culprits were both Cain and Abel