Breakfast Comic Strips

As an exercise I’ve been drawing automatic 'breakfast comic strips' this week - no preplanning, just seeing what comes out.

I usually have extremely vivid dreams & have been suffering from awful anxiety & dread when I wake up in the mornings so this has just been a way to distract myself & to force myself out of it. No rules, but none of them been allowed to have taken more than about 30 minutes to draw (because I have lots of PROPER work to do!) They're extremely variable in quality but I thought some people would be interested to see them. They probably say a lot about my subconscious & obsessions but I'll leave that for you to work out!

Tuesday 10th September

Wednesday 11th September

Thursday 12th September

Friday 13th September

Concertina Sketchbook

 I was given this lovely concertina sketchbook as a present from my agents Arena Illustration & decided to take a line for a walk...

Dog Save The King!

 Getting into the patriotic spirit at the weekend. (I'm back on the green ink because that's all I have left but I kind of like it!)

The 'Hovering Skull of Self Doubt'™

I sometimes get days like this...

It's Friday, why not lick a chair?

You KNOW you want to!

Destroy All Monsters!

Random sketchbook post for you all!

The devil in the black dress cometh...

A cheese hat.

I love starting a new sketchbook, & I ALWAYS offer a reward!

Brexit Bill!

Is it me or does Brexit Bill sound like the name for the most rubbish pirate ever? 

 Or a fairly useless cowboy...?

Or perhaps a rather hapless cockney safe cracker?

Muppet horror dream!

My dream last night involved myself (in puppet form) & a muppet with no eyes, attempting to avoid capture from a malevolent Bert & Ernie from Sesame Street. Odd, & strangely scary

(answers on a postcard to the usual address...)

Collective nouns...

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


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

International Cat Day meets Afternoon Tea Week

Yep, there's days & weeks for everything, but these two are both things I'm fond of!  : )

For those about to rock...we salute you

Demonic Kittys

Some demon cat hybrids I've been sketching recently

Dejected unicorn

Even mythical beasties get the blues...

Zoldar - 'devourer of worlds' takes a rare day off.

Cigarette dreams

This blog's been rather quiet while I've been working on the 6th Dennis the Menace book so I thought I'd enlighten you with an extract from a recent rather 'colourful' series of dreams over the last few nights. Among other things I dreamed of 'human finger pepperami' & last night a woman who was in the middle of attempting to smoke as many cigarettes as possible(!)

Over & out.

Hot sauce!

When breakfast goes BAD!

More breakfast here

Leather Amphitheatre

During the recent rather sultry nights my subconscious has been rather errmmm, 'fruity'!
In response to a dream about a leather amphitheatre (yes, call my therapist etc.) I decided this would make a great name for a fictional metal band so here's a couple of sketches of the members of aforementioned outfit.

Best band in the world! (as the NME would hyperbolize)

See also Klöwnfingerr & other imaginary musical genres

Theology corner #1 What synth did Jesus use?

Answers on a postcard to the usual address