Wednesday, 31 December 2014
New Years Resolutions 2015
Can't decide whether resolutions should be lofty and ambitious or realistic and achievable - so I drew a cartoon instead.
Tuesday, 23 December 2014
Sunday, 21 December 2014
Santas Revenge
What do you tell your children who think Santa has delivered their presents when there aren't batteries included in with your electronic presents? Is he negligent, was there an elf who needs disciplining at the North Pole? Here's an alternative scenario from a slightly bad Santa.
Saturday, 20 December 2014
A Frosty Start
Every year I hastily scribble some cartoons in friends Christmas cards here is one that combines Frosty the Snowman and Frozen's Let It Go.
Saturday, 29 November 2014
The Battles of Black Friday 2014
This is for the cartoon competition with the theme Film Lines but it relates to the unbelievable scenes in Tesco stores (including one I've been in) where people engaged in hand to hand tussles for discounted televisions.
Friday, 28 November 2014
Star Wars: The Force Awakens Trailer - unanswered question
Watched the new The Force Awakens trailer and the main thing that stuck was me was what was the point of the T-shaped lightsaber...
I tried googling Sword forms to see if this was a part of any ancient swords and while there are jaggy guards they still don't look like this and their purpose was to help protect hands.
Here is an interesting page on sword forms.
EDIT: I've had a couple of responses including in the comments here about how this is just a hilt or guard like a normal sword would have or saying all the answers can be found by googling crossguard lightsaber. So after further internet research heres what I've learned:
- If this is a guard to protect hands (which may be useful given that Luke and Anakin both lost their hands in lightsaber duels) then that crosspiece should either be light too (see this Techcrunch article) or has to be made of some material that can't be chopped through (see this piece in the Washington post)
- This is a rare design and we haven't seen before or have we? There is some talk about one being wielded by a Jedi called Roblio Darte in some Clone War comics but from reading the Wookiepedia article that one seems a slightly different design with another blade coming off at a 45 degree angle.
- The blades coming out a 90 degree angle to the sword still seems a bad idea to me more of a nuisance to the wielder than one who is being attacked. As a defensive measure maybe you need a hilt made of some impenetrable material, as an offensive weapon those extra blades should be angled forward.
- I wonder if anyone can come up with an analogous traditional sword with a long 90 degree hilt with blades at the end of the guard not just spikes where the guard is used in attack.
Wednesday, 26 November 2014
Jurassic Turkey
Its Thanksgiving and the new trailer for Jurassic World is out.
Saturday, 22 November 2014
Saturday, 25 October 2014
Saturday, 18 October 2014
Hangman
I have often wondered about the origins of Hangman the game and why in an age where capital punishment is frowned upon this is still something we teach our kids. Still it gave me an idea for a cartoon competition.
According to Wikipedia and other google searches Hangman has it's origins in the Victorian age.
Sunday, 12 October 2014
Song of Solomon
I did some cartoons on Song of Solomon mainly around the imagery in chapter 4. As well as the colour ones here are few black and white gags.
Saturday, 4 October 2014
Strictly Come Dancing 2014
BBC's Strictly come dancing is back. The weekly dose of "celebrity" dancing acts as a countdown to Christmas where you have to endure hours of people who couldn't really dance before you get to the favourites some of who are pop stars or work in showbiz and could probably dance a bit before.
This is my second strictly cartoon and like the first it is for the CCGB competition.
Friday, 26 September 2014
Thursday, 18 September 2014
What cats think of the indyref
Despite the fact cats are generally for independence I think catkind will be glad when the indyref is over and they can go back to dominate the internet.
Saturday, 13 September 2014
Nessie Decides
The Loch Ness monster defecting to England has been done to death so I've come up with another angle for this week's caption competition.
Tuesday, 9 September 2014
Bigger than bigger
What slogan do you come up with when you're Apple and you're launch a big phone, bigger than your other phones but not the biggerest phone (the Samsung Galaxy Note is more bigger). The "bigger than bigger" slogan made me laugh and stopped me falling asleep while I listened to the new U2 album they released for free.
Monday, 25 August 2014
Independence Debate Alternative Format
Regardless of what side you were on you have to admit this would be a better format that listening to two old Scottish men shout over the top of each other for an hour and an half. There was long periods of the BBC debate I literally couldn't tell what either side were saying except that Alex Salmond's shoutyness seemed to be marginally better that that guy from the muppets...
Monday, 11 August 2014
Monday, 4 August 2014
Who is Guardian Witness IP5228505?
Today I had one of my cartoons published in the Guardian G2 section as part of a Guardian Witness assignment. Thanks to my not paying attention I used a 2009 account that had anonymous username IP5228505 so great marketing opportunity squandered!
It is on their website here http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2014/aug/04/readers-cartoons-in-pictures-darth-vader. You should check out some of the other gems from Rob Doyle, Royston, Chris Williams and others.
And here is the original again for your enjoyment from an earlier CCGB competition and blog entry.
It is on their website here http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2014/aug/04/readers-cartoons-in-pictures-darth-vader. You should check out some of the other gems from Rob Doyle, Royston, Chris Williams and others.
And here is the original again for your enjoyment from an earlier CCGB competition and blog entry.
Wednesday, 30 July 2014
Saturday, 5 July 2014
Groupon Seating Area
For a competition. For the record this hasn't yet been my experience with Groupon/5pm etc restaurant deals this is what I think when I walk in with my printout.
Wednesday, 2 July 2014
Wimbledon 2014 summary
After the quarter final exit of Andy Murray against Grigor Dimitrov I drew this cartoon, and to think I was looking for a little joy from sport after the England team's world cup performance.
Here's some Andy murray cartoons from happier times (with colour!)
Here's some Andy murray cartoons from happier times (with colour!)
- http://www.cartoonsidrew.com/2013/07/wimbledon-final-2013.html
- http://www.cartoonsidrew.com/2012/07/wimbledon-final.html
Thursday, 26 June 2014
Fantasy Football
In honor of my sweepstake team USA reaching the last 16 of the World Cup here is my fantasy football cartoon.
Wednesday, 11 June 2014
Braveheart 2014
Reading some of the twitter reaction to JK Rowlings announcement particularly this charity tweet or the comments section of any independence story makes me worry about the current tone of the debate. - have we descended to the most juvenile form of politics? (and both sides are to blame)
Saturday, 31 May 2014
Mime marriage
Another mime cartoon for the CCGB competition. Here is the last one about elevator mimes.
Saturday, 24 May 2014
Batman vs Superman
Drew this cartoon for a competition because hey who doesn't like drawing superheroes. With the title of the Batman vs Superman movie being released this week (Dawn of Justice) I am intrigued with what they will do with this superhero duel but seriously Batman vs Superman there is only going to be one winner the one who actually has superpowers not Ben Affleck. Unless they decide not to fight each other but team up to defeat some other villains but they wouldn't go for anything that obvious would they?
Monday, 12 May 2014
Glasgow 2014 website wait
Here's a true story wife was in website queue for tickets for 6 hours watching a sign that said "Wait time approximately 60 minutes" got in did a search got a crash had to go back in queue saying "Wait time approximately 60 minutes". It's like some crazy infinite loop.
This is a rework of a previous epic wait cartoon I drew http://www.cartoonsidrew.com/2013/04/your-call-is-important-to-us.html
This is a rework of a previous epic wait cartoon I drew http://www.cartoonsidrew.com/2013/04/your-call-is-important-to-us.html
Saturday, 10 May 2014
Saturday, 26 April 2014
Thursday, 24 April 2014
The Other Side Of The Computer Screen
Taking part in Offlife Comics QuickDraw event with House of Illustration gallery via Twitter where you get 15 mins to draw a theme - think this was my best one and the only one to get any twitter love.
Look at my twitter feed to see my other attempts
Saturday, 12 April 2014
Sunday, 30 March 2014
Star Wars Mum
My mother's day cartoon for a special mum who has to deal with her Star Wars son every day. It's not often I do a two page strip on the blog but lets just call it episode 1 and 2.
Finally the more biblical amoung you will recognise this is based on Proverbs 31:10-31 The Good Wife
Saturday, 22 March 2014
Monday, 17 March 2014
Saturday, 15 March 2014
Saturday, 8 March 2014
Thursday, 6 March 2014
Tuesday, 4 March 2014
Monday, 10 February 2014
Thursday, 23 January 2014
Saturday, 18 January 2014
Eggbox One
The old egg box/XBox pun. If you haven't given your gaming friend an egg box as an XBox and thought it hilarious then you aren't like me.
Saturday, 4 January 2014
Baby Mobile
I had this idea for this baby mobile gag a while ago but didn't have a reason to deploy it until this week's caption competition.
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