A Bestiary of (dimly remembered) Literary Terms

I was following a thread by @katemond on Twitter about 7 year olds being forced to learn about 'fronted adverbials' at school & after looking the term up realised the reality was a hell of a lot duller than my original idea of what a Fronted Adverbial looked like.

I proceeded to draw some more dimly remembered terms from studying English literature back in the mists of time.

Don't Shout At The Lions Lionel!

Never raise your voice at big cats. This is unnecessary & invariably rather dangerous. Another in the series of 'books I haven't quite written yet'

Pigs & monkeys!

All sorts of flying gubbins...

Spring Equinox!

Yesterday was the first day of spring so I figured I'd dust the old codpiece out...

Cärrot Dëth

More animal adventures in the world of the 'extraneous mëtal umlaut'™

World Sleep Day

Mëtal Chicken!

More forays into the world of the 'extraneous mëtal umlaut'™ genre.

If you enjoyed this post, why not try Mëtal Kitten & complete the set?

Mëtal Kitten!

More adventures for the 'extraneous heavy metal umlaut'™

Love Your Pet Day!

Surely Love Your Pet Day shouldn't really be necessary? Isn't that the WHOLE POINT of having a pet? Anyhow...

Fat blue cat

Does what it says on the tin!

Cat Pants!™

New CAT PANTS!™ For the more prudish pet owner in your life! No more unsightly bumholes!

International Cat Day 2018

(how to know when your cat's mixing with the wrong crowd)

'Fugitive Sausage Dog Causes Mayhem'

I absolutely HAD to draw this headline from the Jersey Evening Post!
(via The Poke)

Revenge of the Atomic Burps publication day!

It's publication day for the 4th in the Pet Defenders series 'Revenge of the Atomic Burps' written by Gareth P Jones & illustrated by me & published by Stripes. It's another great inventive & funny read (& some of the pictures ain't bad either!) You can buy it here

Meals on wings

Trump Fish!

A 'bottom feeder' if ever I saw one!

Aidan Abet - Teacher's Pet

The very funny 'Aidan Abet Teacher's Pet' by award winning author Guy Bass & illustrated by me is published today by Barrington Stoke.

I enjoyed working on this immensely & always great to get to grips with a really nasty villain, the sinister Miss Vowel (& I always love a bear in glasses!)

You can get your grubby mitts on it here or even better, get off the interweb & go to your local independent bookshop & buy it there (that's ALWAYS more fun!)

'Aidan Abet loves to help the teacher. It makes him popular with the teachers but very unpopular with everyone else. But when substitute Miss Vowel strides into school with a rather unusual mini-zoo, Aidan has a choice to make – he can listen to the animals, or he can become the Ultimate Teacher’s Pet.'

Collective nouns...

The collective noun for cats is a 'clump' surely...?*


*Ok, ok, the correct term is a 'clowder', happy now?

Tigers in lipstick

Well, when National Lipstick Day collides with International Tiger Day what's a guy going to do?
(many thanks to my lovely friend Alicia for suggesting this!)

Pigs in hot weather

I was rather delighted by a story in the paper about pigs being given ice lollies & having sun block rubbed into their ears during the recent hot weather.