Friday, March 30, 2007

A non-cartoon related note: Edinburgh's Council Tax (a nice little earner)

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This is the document (click for larger picture) that shows that my Council Tax bill has been too high since I moved here. It has now been lo...
Thursday, March 29, 2007

HAW, HAW, Satire!

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I can't understand why or when cartoonists decided that satire meant simply switching positions, but they did. You know, Price Charles i...
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Monday, March 19, 2007

Geoff Hassing's ideas factory

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I was just talking to Geoff Hassing (you'll see some of Geoff's work alongside mine in National Lampoon's, Funniest Cartoons of...
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Friday, March 09, 2007

Phew!

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Okay, having got over the fact that even people who 'only draw for a living' can long to do something else, I have another tip for t...

Not Proustian.

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I gave up cartooning, about ten or fifteen years ago, and went into academia, principally to brush up on my writing skills - such as they ar...
Saturday, February 17, 2007

A bit back-trouble

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I've done very little for the past 2 weeks on account of back-trouble. I really injured my back badly early last year. I have a treadmil...
Monday, February 05, 2007

Johnny Morte on Comics Space

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I just put the first 5 pages of my comic book Johnny Morte, on Comic Space . I've finished the first comic book and I set out to make ...
Sunday, February 04, 2007

Livin' It.

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I took a few days rest to read some Manga , Atsushi Kaneko's Soil (his artwork reminds me of Charles Burn's drawings) and Seizon...
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Wednesday, January 24, 2007

The Wisenheimer school of Cartoon Art

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As you might expect of a highly respected member of the cartooning business, I am a member of a secret cartoon society, heck bent on World D...
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I Manga coming in a day or two

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I think I have time to post the first I Manga Blog post this week. I had a long hard think about what to launch it with and I swithered a...
Tuesday, January 16, 2007

Dirty Dick's Bottomless Pond.

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Up past the Horseshoe (a cul-de-sac), and then along the Lang Loan (the Long Lane) past the Tip (rubbish dump) and along a little and then c...
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Saturday, January 13, 2007

I Manga

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I've been a day out, twice, when it comes to posting my Lepertown comic on Web Comics Nation , but that's not bad given that I'...
Friday, January 12, 2007

Dirk Deppey - Living Resource.

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I had some respect for Dirk Deppey before yesterday. He has been singularly resposible for increasing and informing my interest in Manga an...
Thursday, January 11, 2007

R.I.P Harry Horse and Mandy, his beloved wife.

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The death of Richard (Harry Horse) Horne , ( Scotsman article here ) and his wife Mandy, is incredibly sad. In fact, it's heart breaking...
Tuesday, January 09, 2007

More Tommy Apple.

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Today's Lepertown episode on WCN is a one-pager from my Tommy Apple story. I've redrawn this now because Old Robert, as he looks ...
Thursday, January 04, 2007

Happy New Year

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Actually, in work terms, New Year was over long ago. In drunky terms of course, it was not. So I hope you have all recovered and resolved t...
Friday, December 22, 2006

Thank you DC/Wildstorm and the Albion team.

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I was just made-up to recieve 3 copies of the collected Albion today (can I call it a graphic novel?), from DC/Wildstorm - courtesy of Fed-E...
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Thursday, December 21, 2006

Happy Holidays.

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My special holiday greetings go out to the fantastically talented Leah Moore, John Reppion and their team, and to the extremely hard work...
Monday, December 18, 2006

A (comic) book of delights, that's Nick Mag.

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I hate posts on noticeboards and websites where people say 'a lot of people ask me' and you think well who? Who are they who ask? I ...
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Friday, December 15, 2006

Updated WebComic Nations site with the Tammyclava.

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I suspect a lot of the trends of the 60s were inspired by surplus goods. The 'trend' for haversacks as school bags came around quite...