Merry Christmas everyone!

Yule Cat says "BÖO!"

Jólakötturin, the Icelandic Yule Cat is 'a vicious cat who lurks about the snowy countryside during Christmas time and eats people who have not received any new clothes to wear before Christmas Eve.'(!)

Praying you ALL get new socks this year!

Matt Millz On Tour by Harry Hill - published today!

Matt Millz on Tour! the 3rd in the hilarious series by Harry Hill & illustrated by me is out today  (Thursday October 17th) published by Faber & Faber This time Matt is taking his act to the Edinburgh Festival! You can order it here!

Matt’s dream of becoming a stand-up comic is fading. Six months on from his success at the Apollo, the gigs have dried up, and it’s back to the daily drudge of schoolwork for Matt and his pals. But then his twelve-year-old manager Kitty has a brainwave: if they can persuade their teachers to take a school play up to the Edinburgh Festival, they could hold a comedy night too.

But Matt’s got a rival new school-mate Jamie who is pushing to be in the comedy line-up. And Jamie is good. But is he too good to be true?

Tigers on Vaseline!

Moving on from my previous post for International Tiger Day here's another tiger on vaseline thanks to inspiration from the great Dame David Bowie!

Hang on to yourself!

You want more book covers for non existent (as yet) books? Go here!

International Tiger Day - hang on to yourself...

...here's a tiger on vaseline*




(*psst all you non Bowie-files, it's a line from Hang On To Yourself from the Aladdin Sane album)

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.

The Haunted Tie (& other stories)

Excerpt from a series of horror stories I will never probably get around to writing...

Bookmark Project 2019

I was happy to take part in this year's Bookmark Project & draw an avidly reading tiger. The Project helps to raise money for the children who attend the Katiyo Primary School in Zimbabwe you can read more here

Sir Henry Rawlinson...

A fine quote from an eminently quotable movie 'Sir Henry At Rawlinsons End' written by the late great ginger geezer himself Viv Stanshall.

Jubilant pink cat on postcard (with coffee stain)

Pigs & monkeys!

All sorts of flying gubbins...

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'™

Down To Earth

Here's a couple of pictures from a recent book I illustrated called Down to Earth by Carmel Reilly for Oxford University press which I can find no trace of but anyone who knows me will know I'm fond of drawing aliens etc. so here you go!

Fat blue cat

Does what it says on the tin!

I'm THOR!

Thor the thundergod went for a ride

Upon his favourite filly

"I'm Thor!" He cried

The horse replied,

"You forgot your thaddle, thilly."

(rhyme courtethy of @OddsonDamian)

Dry January

Krampus in his Christmas jumper has some advice...

Cat Pants!™

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