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Monday 12 May 2014

The Diary of Dennis the Menace - Beanotown Battle out now!

The second Diary of Dennis the Menace 'Beanotown Battle' written by Stephen Butler, illustrated by me & published by Puffin books is out now. In this one the boring Mayor has entered Beanotown in a flower comptetition, & you know what flowers attract? SOFTIES!
Dennis & Gnasher have to think of a brilliant emergency menacing plan to save Beanotown from the softy invasion! (warning some of these images may contain SPOILERS!)
In this book I got a chance to draw some of Dennis's friends who might look vaguely familiar & as with the previous book I've been thoroughly enjoying getting to reinterpret some iconic Beano characters again. Stephen Butler's writing is nicely funny & anarchic & great fun to illustrate & again a big nod to Mandy Norman the designer because the books look great!



You can order the book online but why not pop over to your nearest PROPER BOOKSHOP & buy it from there because that's a lot more fun than being hunched over a computer any day!

Friday 11 April 2014

Tolerance

Be nice to each other y'hear? x

Friday 4 April 2014

Epidemic of tuts 2 - the Medusa™ comb-over


Epidemic of tuts

There's been a lot of talk about air pollution but this morning on my walk into the studio there appeared to be an epidemic of tutting in the  London air (or maybe I'm just being super-annoying today & don't realise it?)
We really should make tutting an Olympic sport. The GB team would clean up!

Thursday 20 March 2014

Scuba & orange squash bottles

...& now I'm off to learn to scuba dive for real finally so no more post for a couple of weeks

Tuesday 18 March 2014

Unruly eyebrows & earwax placement

I live in fear of the day my eyebrows take on a bristley unruly life of their own but who tangles them in the night huh?

Tuesday 11 March 2014

Mind that seagull!

Some experimental colouring in with beasties & cross seagulls*

*seagulls ALWAYS look cross

Monday 10 March 2014

Old rockers never die (they just appear in more documentaries)


I love a good rockumentary, was watching various '70s survivors in varied stages of 'ageing pantomime dame mode' telling their stories on TV the other night...


'Spurious Gack Anecdote', really ought to be a name of a band

Friday 28 February 2014

Werewolves, killer tomatoes & mummies...


A werewolf trying to find a job, a sad tomato & a mummy wrapped in pink toilet paper from 'Making Monsters Happy' by Susan Gates.

Tuesday 18 February 2014

...is so bracing

Dreaming of the seaside - my drenched Soho homage to John Hassall's famous Skegness design

Splashing into the streets

Wet night in Soho last night reminded me of the line 'The boys just dive right off the cars
And splash into the street' from Time by Tom Waits (very little relevance apart from that but it's always good to have context)

Monday 17 February 2014

More (late) valentines beasties


Some valentines based beasties drawn on a wet Valentines Friday afternoon

Friday 14 February 2014

Tuesday 11 February 2014

Reward - a diamond dog

I always like to promise a nice reward to anyone who returns a lost sketchbook*

* the 'gold helicopter' I promised in another book hasn't tempted anyone to return my lost sketchbook from the summer last year : (

Cross robot/lizard hybrid

Today...so far...

Ruminations on the interweb...


Thursday 6 February 2014

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.)

Wednesday 5 February 2014

Tuesday 4 February 2014

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

Thursday 30 January 2014

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!

Friday 24 January 2014

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. 


Friday 17 January 2014

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...

Friday 10 January 2014

Diary of Dennis the Menace...coming very soon!

The Diary of Dennis the Menace is out on the 6th February published by Puffin books - the very clever Steven Butler (@sbutlerbooks) done the writing stuff & I done all the pictures - save up your pocket money kids!

Friday 3 January 2014

Chicken Hat

Quasi-religious bird based titfer... every home should have one

Thursday 2 January 2014

Dogs & demons

More over Christmas sketchbooks, I bought a new fountain pen after forgetting my usual one, it's made me go all cross-hatch-y!

Arrrgh!

Sketchbook pages from over Christmas - psychoanalyse that!