Caption competition: provide a better caption for this drawing!
Drawing competition: provide a better drawing for this caption!
For those mystified by the appointment at 3pm, see this incredible animated short.
I have left myself some important but unanswered questions with today’s publication. Firstly, why do so many of my comics involve the consumption of the characters by other characters. But more importantly, where did that guinea pig come from?
Here’s my comic from Adam’s exceptionally enjoyable comic drawing workshop at the University Museum of Natural History. We looked at giant models of insects and even cuddled live hissing cockroaches. This comic was drawn and inked at the museum, then scanned coloured at home in gimp.
Stop Press! I notice Adam has quoted me on his comic blog (not suitable for kiddywinks) …
I’m showing this cartoon today not because it is especially witty, original or well drawn, but rather because the protagonist is the person the artist loves the most in the whole world (apart from himself). He hopes you have a similar muse on whom to lavish your affection.
For followers of the Robert McKee school of story taxonomy, the Inciting Incident for this vignette was a snowfall approaching the almost Vernian depth of 10cm.
The words are the entirety of poem by e e cummings. I think they are complete in themselves, but nevertheless I’ve tried to add pictures with my own twist. Does it work?
I hope this makes as much sense to you as I thought it did to me when I wrote down the idea.
I’ve been reading the superb “Dry Store Room No. 1: The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum” by Richard Fortey. Anyone interested in life on our planet should find this book amusing and astonishing.
