Posts under ‘comics’

As I mentioned in my last post, I spent last weekend looking at more arty stuff. It started in Trafalgar Square on Saturday morning to see my friend Myk Reeve posing on the fourth plinth as part of Antony Gormley's One and Other. He was the fifth of six people that I've met to appear [...]

My chums Sarah, Gary and Viviane share a studio in an old police station building in Deptford. They've all made comics about sheep, so they called their studio the Fleece Station. Reading stuff on Sarah's blog about settling in there was pretty interesting, but on Saturday they had a studio-warming party, which gave me an [...]

Sarah's posted the mega-long list of children's books she used in her talk at last weekend's Caption: loads of great-looking books for you to check out. Just browsing through those will keep you occupied for hours.
This post on Roald Dahl covers popped up in Paul K's shared GR items last week, and today I discovered [...]

I wasn't going to post anything today, but here's a quickie anyway. In my last post, I mentioned Jenny Everywhere, the open source comic character created by Steven and a bunch of others several years ago.
This morning, for some reason, I put pen to paper and knocked up a quick sketch of her within [...]

For those of you (if there are any of you) waiting for the next instalment of my Painshill Park posts, I'm afraid you'll have to wait a bit longer. What with spending last weekend at Caption, where I took a lot of photos that needed going through, having other things I needed to get done [...]

Those people following me on Twitter will probably have noticed how lacklustre I've been feeling this past week. I'd put it partly down to the weather, even though the fact that summer seems to be over actually didn't come as a surprise to me. The make-up induced allergy that caused my face to painfully erupt [...]

Where were we? Oh yes, we'd reached the Roast Foie Gras with Almond Fluid Gel, Cherry and Chamomile. This was an amazingly complex dish, rich and full of flavour. Even the delicate wafers garnishing the top packed a knockout punch of flavour into a tiny space, but none of the flavours overwhelmed the others, they [...]

Last week I mentioned that the Kuniyoshi exhibition had reminded me of a book I loved as a child, The Voyage of Prince Fuji by Jenny Thorne. It's long been out of print, and there's no information about it online, so I promised to do a post about the book, with some pictures from it, [...]

This may seem a completely random question, but it's been on my mind since I reread Castle Waiting a couple of weeks ago. One of the characters is a doctor who has experience of the plague, and wears the mask at all times. The question came up again today when I was browsing Will's flickrstream [...]

Yesterday found me pootling down to Covent Garden for the annual May Fayre and Puppet Festival, which has long been an annual tradition to visit, although I hadn't been for a few years.