Newham Word Festival with Guy Bass

I had a great time with author Guy Bass at the Manor Park library with the the kids from Monega Primary School  for the Newham Word Festival today. We covered everything from childhood vices, potato shaped children, dinosaurs, superheroes & not to forget our recent collaborations 'Noah Scape - Can't Stop Repeating Himself'  & 'Laura Norder - Sheriff of Butts Canyon'.

Guy's exuberance & expert storytelling went down really well with the kids & the morning gave me plenty of scope for plenty of live drawing to prove I was definitely 'quick on the draw' (see what I did there?!?!)

Thanks to the staff at Manor Park library for making us so welcome!

 Look at all our lovely books!

A meat pie, Tarzan & angry giraffe...

 Noah Scape

 Various superheroes (& Hulk's tiny trousers)

 Ten Gun Ben (& startled horse)

 Ten Gun Ben says "NO RULES!"

 A wild west 'good morning' pussycat (& rogue TARDIS)

 Potato shaped child & Guy's mum laying down the law 

(NB I have never met Guy's mum so this is purely invented)

 Noah Scape's favourite things!

 Laura Norder & Duncan Disorderly drawn from life in double quick time
(see below)

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!

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...

Laura Norder - Sheriff of Butts Canyon PUBLICATION DAY!

Laura Norder - Sheriff of Butts Canyon, my third collaboration with author Guy Bass for Barrington Stoke is published today, Friday 15th February
In this pun-tastic & funny Western adventure Laura Norder lives her life by the Golden Rules and so should everybody else. But being Sheriff of Butts Canyon at the age of ten is a big job to handle, and when a no-good rule-breaking bandit causes chaos in the town, enough is enough! It's time for Laura to step up to the plate and catch the masked mischief-maker before he breaks any more of her rules!

This was a great fun book to work on & I particularly loved visualising all of the subsidiary characters like Tad Tipsy the drunk bartender, Walter Spitty the town scruff & Mort L. Coil the undertaker.

You can order it here or even better, pop into your local bookshop & pick up a copy

Spooky Valentines Day!

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)