Monthly Archives: December 2010
festive comics cheer
Look! According to this video, you can use Vern and Lettuce for sledging! David Fickling Books video YouTube link Last night our agent threw a little drinks party in Soho, and half of the gang were from The DFC crew, … Continue reading
vern and lettuce take a little detour to paris
I hear from one of the bunnies that, while Vern and Lettuce are still planning to visit Derek and Lenny somewhere in the English countryside, they somehow managed to drive their tractor through the Eurostar tunnel. (While this sounds horribly … Continue reading
vern and lettuce head off the farm!
Vern and Lettuce’s best friends, Derek the Sheep and his buddy Lenny have invited them to the countryside for Christmas. And no snow, dodgy buses or bad trains are going to keep them from going! They’ve hijacked a roadside tractor … Continue reading
after-dinner comic
This one’s a bit of a throw-away comic strip, how it’d look before I’d show you. But you can get a glimpse of one of our many scintillating and profound dinner conversations. Big question of the evening: what’s for pudding?
a few snow pics
So here was the evil snowman staring through our kitchen window last night. Yikes! A pitched battle raged around this guy, involving some little kids desperately trying to defend it and some big kids who were wandering around the neighbourhood … Continue reading
saying goodbye
This week’s been a bit hard, saying goodbye to my little neighbour friend, who’s going to go live with her mum in Nigeria. She’s never lived there before, only visited, so the move’s going to be a big one for … Continue reading
friday in black and white
I found today’s sketch in Greenwich Park terribly frustrating. I’ve been drawing a lot of close-ups of trees, which is pretty much the same thing as doing a life drawing of a person. But I’ve never been good at landscape … Continue reading
scribbling and scheming for… MONSTERVILLE!
I can honestly say, I don’t think anyone in the whole Western hemisphere had a meeting as fun as we had today at Stratford’s Discover Centre, getting ready for MONSTERVILLE! When amazing illustrators Neal Layton, Ed Vere and I settled … Continue reading
work past and future
Thanks so much to Armadillo magazine for reviewing the six books in the DFC Library, and particularly for their write-up about Vern and Lettuce here! You even get a peek at one of the pages. (The tower block in the … Continue reading
more monster boutique
A few more rough sketches for the Monster Village at Stratford’s Discover Centre. I’m working them in between picture book work, so it’s all slightly bitsy, but I’m meeting up this week with Ed Vere, Neal Layton and the team … Continue reading
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