Ruminations on the interweb...

Diary of Dennis the Menace - available now!

Some time in early May last year I was contacted by my agent to say that Puffin were looking for someone to give a 'new illustrative approach' to Dennis the Menace for a series of books written by award winning children's author of 'The Wrong Pong' Steven Butler.
I paused from sipping a large gold flecked martini on my yacht, waved away a palm frond bearing serving girl & thought '...hmmm, draw one of my childhood heroes...HELL YEAH!'

*montage of furious scribbling, various life events, getting an invite to the Beano 75th birthday party, uplifting music etc.*

...& so, the first book, The Diary Of Dennis The Menace is published today, it's very funny, keeping the right level of mischief & chaos (you bumfaces you!) nicely designed by Mandy Norman, & the pictures ain't too shabby either.
Has been an extremely enjoyable job, I dearly wish my mum was still around so I could proudly present her with a copy.
Here's a few of the pictures (I got to draw a few other old favourites too! : )

(Puffin Books, TM © DC Thomson & Co. Ltd.)

Gloombrella

Today was one of those days.

Pensive monkey

I dreamed about lots of brilliant monkeys last night but was too slow to photograph them in the dream. I feel a bit sad about this today

I've just received my copies of Diary Of Dennis the Menace!

Very excited to have just received my copies of The Diary of Dennis The Menace written by the very funny Steven Butler , drawn by me & published by Puffin books. They look superb, congrats to Mandy Norman for a lovely design job - it's published on 6th February so I shouldn't really give you a peek but I'm very excited...this is how I feel... DING! DONG!* : )

*If you're a fan club member you'll KNOW what this means!

Cyber Streetwise campaign

Here are a few of the posters I created for the government's Cyber Streetwise campaign.
Commissioned by the agency, M&C Saatchi, with Picasso Pictures I  created illustrations for the interactive website, print and poster Cyber Streetwise campaign &  I also designed & directed 6 short animated clips showing how people take risks with web security that they would never take in the real world. The work was written by Matt Beaumont and art directed by Phil Reedy & my producer was the brilliantly unflappable Melissa Venet at Picasso Pictures. 

Cyber Street Wise posters

I was recently commissioned by M&C Saatchi to design 6 posters & direct 6 short animated spots for the government's Cyber Street Wise campaign through Picasso Pictures. The posters seem to have taken over the London Underground (& a fair bit of overground too!) Here's a few examples that have been photographed by several of my spies around London to be going on with - more soon...watch this space...