Monthly Archives: December 2008
new year’s resolution
This year I want to write a few ‘proper’ letters. Not just etiquette-driven thank-you note type things, but things that surprise people when they open the post and make them feel nice that someone’s thinking of them. I can only … Continue reading
back from christmas land
Here’s the card I designed this year for Write Away, a literary consultancy I’ve been working with fairly closely this year. The woman who runs it, Nikki Gamble, and I met up for coffee near Spitalfields market just before Christmas … Continue reading
christmas newsletters
I love getting newsletters from my parents’ friends. Most memorable line of the year so far: Diane had a teary meltdown more than once wondering if the swimming pool would ever function properly again. Guardian columnist Simon Hoggart usually makes … Continue reading
holiday family portrait
Just heard from the web mice at DFC headquarters that they’ve come up with DFC Preview site where you can see whole comic strips from the DFC! They assure us the strips will be changed on a regular basis so … Continue reading
slippers, the freelancer’s best friend
I love you, Bridget!!! This morning the postman rang the bell and I rushed downstairs – tripping over the bits of lining sticking out of my delapidated slippers – to find a mysterious box from a Brighton shoe shop waiting … Continue reading
overwhelmed by pudding
I drew this comic way too fast, but Stuart’s pear and ginger brioche pudding this evening needed commemorating. (Stuart and Vern are so alike that they are very often interchangeable.) And here is Stuart with his marvellous creation: This weekend … Continue reading
DFC christmas streakers!
Today Vern and Lettuce met up for a quiet little comics office party, while Garen, Dave, Ellen and I went streaking through the streets of Brixton. … Ha ha, no, the other way round (shame, that). The DFC Christmas double … Continue reading
top page-turners
Messing around with ink again. This is me twigging out, waiting for my Christmas DFC double issue to arrive: Yesterday, buried in snow, David Lasky (dlasky) gave me two good websites for looking up work by Frank King (Gasoline Alley) … Continue reading
the suspense…
The suspense, it is killing me! I can hardly wait for tomorrow’s bumper DFC Christmas double issue! If I didn’t have so much work to do today, I would go to bed now so tomorrow would come faster. Do think … Continue reading
coffee break drawing
Hey, I just saw that Chris Riddell has illustrated a 352-page book of Don Quixote with Martin Jenkins, being released very soon by Walker Books. I just had a quick flip through, but his pictures look amazing, keep your eye … Continue reading
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