You can't do that sort of thing any more!

A Compendium of Unwise Pursuits. 

NB Smoking & fighting is NOT big or clever kids!

(part of the 'Steve May rather hinders his career as a children's illustrator by drawing fighting & smoking' series - I may be a bit of an idiot! ; )

Ding-dong!

I overheard a man in a café in Soho the other day referring to a 'ding-dong', not a phrase I'd heard in a long time & what with the word 'fracas' being rather prevalent in the news recently it got me thinking...

(nobody was hurt during the drawing of this sketchbook page)

Impending Hastings rumble (w/ added noise)

...there I am, busy drawing unsuitable sound effects when I'm suddenly distracted by determined teenage boys en route to an impending scrap in Hastings town centre - happily I haven't been personally involved in one of these for many years (as the great PaulMcCartney&MichaelJackson might've said - 'I'm a lover not a fighter')

Fight!

"Don't be soft...have a fight!"