shrewsbury cartoon festival
at the weekend i participated in the shrewsbury cartoon festival -- as well as having a few cartoons in various exhibitions about the place, my main contributions were drawing a couple of cartoons on one of the big boards in the square, and a session on saturday afternoon drawing on the 'who do you think you are' stand -- where members of the public stick their heads through a hole in a large piece of paper, and you draw them the body of their choice.
there are lots of photos popping up on the internet, including this lot of ger whyman's, and there are a few of me in action in the square but i think my favourite of these shots doesn't involve drawing at all and is probably this one of me singing 'why does it always rain on me' at the dinner on the saturday night (because it's about the closest i've ever got to looking like a rock star):
apologies to travis and... well, everyone else, really...
it was a tremendously fun weekend, stoked to the rafters with great cartoonists... alex noel watson, veteran of punch and the new yorker, regaled me with stories of some legendary figures he knew personally, like charles addams, whose 4th wedding took place in a graveyard, according to alex. coincidentally, martin honeysett told me that the new yorker once accepted one of his gags, but only the idea, they wanted the drawing to be done by... charles addams. actually a pretty good fit, when you think about honeysett's dark humour.
other than my official drawing duties, i only managed one sketch, which was made in the sitting area of the hotel at 4 in the morning during a caffeine-induced spell of insomnia i had on the friday night. it's not much, but here it is.
there are lots of photos popping up on the internet, including this lot of ger whyman's, and there are a few of me in action in the square but i think my favourite of these shots doesn't involve drawing at all and is probably this one of me singing 'why does it always rain on me' at the dinner on the saturday night (because it's about the closest i've ever got to looking like a rock star):
apologies to travis and... well, everyone else, really...
it was a tremendously fun weekend, stoked to the rafters with great cartoonists... alex noel watson, veteran of punch and the new yorker, regaled me with stories of some legendary figures he knew personally, like charles addams, whose 4th wedding took place in a graveyard, according to alex. coincidentally, martin honeysett told me that the new yorker once accepted one of his gags, but only the idea, they wanted the drawing to be done by... charles addams. actually a pretty good fit, when you think about honeysett's dark humour.
other than my official drawing duties, i only managed one sketch, which was made in the sitting area of the hotel at 4 in the morning during a caffeine-induced spell of insomnia i had on the friday night. it's not much, but here it is.
