Filthy Moods

Sunday, 17 March 2013

"You And The Anti-You"!

Where have we been, and what's going on? What exactly is the price of Freedom? And can you get a refund if you don't like it? What really happened to the economy? And what's for dinner?

Yes, Filthy Moods is back and it's almost 2 weeks since we slapped any heart-warming and nerve-jangling pictures up on this virtual, if slightly crumbling wall of ours.

To repay your patience and torment your sense of decency, there's 3 new cartoons plus a sketchbook/slideshow. All here and further down the Blog...

Thank you for not snoring.

Hell-Hound & The Prime Minister (Another Allegory...)

I like late 18th/early 19th century political engravings, especially James Gillray, and in particular his more outlandish "allegorical' and detailed prints. Gillray, along with Wm Hogarth's earlier works are the best of the era and evoke a nightmare-cartoon world filled with wild visual metaphors where statesmen are transformed into grotesque beasts and distorted versions of their selves in order to enact their political incompetencies on paper. These are the origins of the modern "editorial cartoon".

All this smoke & blather is intended to disguise my attempt above at a "political" cartoon...

Robo-Squid (Re-hashed & Redux!)

If here's a moral to this, it's "When in doubt flip through your old sketch books and re-hash a character"...

Yes, I am ashamed, but I did it anyway.

Sketch Book (March 7-17th)

Here is the "pick" of my sketchy book stuff from the past week or so. As usual, no pencilling or thinking beforehand. Just inky pens, willing sheets of paper and as much insanity as required.

Okay, grit your teeth, staple your eyelids open, keep the paramedics on "speed-dial" and off we go..!

All New Sketches!! On the Way!!!

A whole bunch of New Stuff posted soon..!

Monday, 4 March 2013

Beware False Idols!

You may have noticed that the Filthy Moods Sanitorium for Unsanitary Cartoonists has been a bit conspicuous by its absence, as opposed to being inconspicuous by its presence, lately.

Excuses aside, we're more or less back. A few more scars to add to the spurious battle-weary image and a few less brain-cells... But, fuck it. Enough blather...

Below are the meagre but sincere trimmings from a week or two's scribbles, scrawls & sweat filled fever-dreams...

Paltry Sketches/Fever Dreams...

And here they are... End of Feb/beginning of March '13, the, er... "more printable" of my sketchbook stuff torn from my sweaty paws! Or business as usual to the regular visitors to Filthy Moods...