Monthly Archives: December 2009
getting vern & lettuce ready for translation
Partly what I’ve been doing today is plain ol’ grunt work, prepping my Vern and Lettuce comics for publication in book form, as part of the DFC Library series. When I was first making the comics, my editor told me … Continue reading
go, daddy, go!!!
My dad just rang up, almost giddy with excitement, to say HIS PLANE is in the air for the first time! It’s Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner and he designed the navigation system. (He is very clever, my dad!) Stuart and I … Continue reading
meetings up
Today I had lunch with the amazing Sally Nicholls, who’s writing up a storm on her novels and is also watching with wonder as her first novel, Ways to Live Forever is made into a full-length film! Sally’s second book, … Continue reading
so i sat on the throne of creativity
Mystery visitation: Guess whose house I stopped by this weekend! It had the most impressive piece of furniture. Makes me want to customise everything in my own house.
golden treasury: monsters & mistletoe
I almost got crushed in the crowd of Fulham Christmas shoppers and Chelsea football club fans on the Tube, but a bunch of kids joined me to make monsters at a sparkling, cosy bookshop in Southfields called The Golden Treasury. … Continue reading
kingston university: read to inspire conference
Yay, I got to hang out with some of my favourite illustrators today! Here’s Chris Wormell and Mini Grey. Chris does some of the best linocuts I’ve seen, and Mini comes up with the most wonderful textures and beautifully wonky … Continue reading
livejournal turns 10!
Although it took the FedEx man ages to find the studio, he just arrived with my copy! The LiveJournal staff spent ages asking around,trawling through blog posts and getting in touch with people to put together this snapshot of what’s … Continue reading
another good read
So while our big studio plants, Bob & Bobette have been busy canoodling, I bought a winter cherry plant at Deptford market as company for my spiky little rock plant on the window ledge. I love winter cherry; with its … Continue reading
ugly whippet and linky links
Last night I was tired and brain dead, so I did some winding down by drawing an ugly whippet in a dress. Some links! I got a wonderful e-mail the other day from Cynthia Shelton, who lives on a boat … Continue reading
comics jam session
One of the girls at the James Allen’s Preparatory School came up with this guy, he’s such a dude. I made up this sheet this weekend and tried it out on today’s classes after talking to them about how to … Continue reading
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