The Economist - Eclipse of the PLC

Ruminations on the difficulties of the public limited company for The Economist magazine (I know, I just draw the pictures. my old man was an Economics lecturer though, does that count?)

Cartoon Kid is July's poster boy!

I'm July's poster boy for my agent Arena Illustration's calendar - illustration was commissioned by The Times for their Campaign For Fun which searches for the most fun school in Britain*.  It features characters from Cartoon Kid, the series by Jeremy Strong, published by Puffin Books which I'm about to begin illustrating the 5th in the series - yay!

* It definitely wasn't the one I went to.

Cerberus the hound of hell (or a hell of a hound)

 

I had the delight last week of seeing some very talented kids at the Discover Childrens Story Centre drawing their versions of Cerberus after some superhero / Greek mythology related drawing workshop shenanigans. Have been pondering the disadvantages of owning a three headed dog since then... imagine the food bills : (

Cat with balloon

Yeah, yeah claws & balloons don't mix etc. etc. They certainly do in MY world!

Celebratory dinosaurs

Pictorial evidence to prove dinosaurs went to birthday parties

'insert war here'

Not so smug™ now huh? (interesting fridge)

Was deliberating about how to make a a drawing of a fridge interesting & seemed appropriate on a day like this