Itchy and Knee striving for parity, as always. I note that peas have almost as much comic potential as bananas.
Archive for August, 2015
We went to an excellent talk yesterday at the Albion Beatnik Bookshop, by Jeremy Renals on the sub-genres of jazz. Most of the people in my sketch are jazzers, but a couple crept in from book-covers I could see in the shop.
More fallout from my recent experiences…
First: Hi -- you're new here! Welcome to gastroscopy!
Second: Actually, I work in colonoscopy.
No comic today, but I wanted to share two doodles from my sketchbook. The second one I made at the hospital, waiting for a gastroscopy*, and perhaps then the theme is obvious. In hindsight I now understand the first one too!
I’m happy to say they found nothing! The doctor allowed me to turn slightly to look at the monitor, so now I have gazed at my navel from both sides.
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(* The spelling checker is complaining, and suggesting gastropod instead. I think that would have been far tastier.)
A periscope with an eye on a flexible tube, peering into a maze of transparent tubes, one of which opens up into a sphere containing a whale, a shark, an octopus. A network of vein-like tubes cover the surface.
Winnie, the witch mechanic, receives a tool from her trainee:
"No you idiot! This is a phillips driver -- I need a HEX key!"