Monthly Archives: February 2009
we made a monster!
Yesterday the neighbour kid was rifling through our recyling bag (read: potential craft supplies) and came up with this smasher of a puppet. It reminded me so much of one of drewweing‘s recent beast drawings that I had to draw … Continue reading
DFC weekend heroes!
Yes, Vern and Lettuce have made it into another newspaper! You can see a snippet here of this week’s strip in the DFC. Just a reminder, you won’t find the DFC in the shops, it’s a subscription only thing, to … Continue reading
pome
(Can anyone give me a last line?) This one’s dedicated to Giles Andreae, creator of Purple Ronnie and Edward Monkton, and who wrote the poem for the book I just illustrated, Morris the Mankiest Monster. (He writes poems just a … Continue reading
a few yummy things
Big deadline tomorrow, so here are a few snapshots. I went for a walk yesterday and saw this gorgeous dress in a shop window. It was very small and priced at £250, so it shall remain a lovely window shopping … Continue reading
i can’t hear you
Yesterday we made lots of pancakes. We told the neighbour kid we were going to make them at 8pm, but she was so excited that she came over three times before then just to check we hadn’t started earlier. I … Continue reading
got cakes on the griddle
Okay, I am going to jump on the illustrators’ unicorn bandwagon just this once: I am painting like mad for an upcoming book deadline and it’s so bad I even spent all night dreaming about painting it. Argh. So I … Continue reading
jumoke
This morning I drew my friend Jumoke for my morning sketch. She has the most wonderfully characterful face, and I’d like to try again and get it a bit better. But here’s a first try! Hey, tomorrow is PANCAKE DAY!!!
hot off the press!
The Guardian presents Super Animal Adventure Squad and Vern and Lettuce! Cor, blimey! It’s funny seeing Vern and Lettuce go all the way back to Issue 1. That’s when I was still nervously thinking, can I really make more than … Continue reading
it’s DFC friday!
Issue 38 arrived today, and Vern and Lettuce are trying to decide if they should rescue those dastardly foxes and that bad, bad pigeon. Some fresh new stories start up, including Chicken Caesar Junior by Julian Hanshaw (yup, that guy … Continue reading
long day of work ahead
I love my work, I sometimes just go a bit cracked when I’m sitting at my desk all day. Yesterday I started texting Gary Northfield when I was completely losing it, poor man. I got the idea for today’s morning … Continue reading
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