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Itchy & Knee in Ringers

Jul08
by on 2013-07-08 at 00:00
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We were listening to a local rock band playing covers, and I was drawing this comic.

A little girl appeared and asked if she was “allowed” some paper and “allowed” to use the coloured pencils. She’ll be a dress designer one day, she confidently informed us.

I drew her drawing as she drew, mostly from memory as she wouldn’t look up until she’d finished (you can also see my thumbnails for Itchy and Knee’s comic on the same page.) Then her brother appeared and wanted a portrait too. He pulled a face, so I drew it that way.

Libby-Sue's latest dress design

Libby-Sue’s latest dress design

Libby Sue by Invisibules

JJ by Invisibules

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Itchy & Knee in Ringers
1. I & K come across an object in a field
2. K: what is it?
3. I: It's a cow bell!
4. To K's surprise, I rings the bell wildly
5. CLANG!
6. (A cow appears, with jacket and holding a towel) : You rang?

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2013-05-12 Ice Age Art at the British Museum

May14
by on 2013-05-14 at 00:00
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Diary entry: Yesterday we saw the exhibition of Ice Age art at the British Museum (in London). It was, for me, astonishing. The exhibits are drawn from 40,000 years of human history, yet you can clearly see that the artists were as skilled and as insightful as any today. These people thought just the same way that we do, though their technology was less advanced.

If you can possibly get to London to visit the exhibition before it closes on 2nd June, then go! (Booking essential)

In the picture I’ve roughed out part of the Great Court (as seen from just above my much needed cup of coffee!) and overlaid my thumbnail sketches of some of the objects that caught my attention.

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2013-01-09 UP

Jan10
by on 2013-01-10 at 00:00
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I apologise for the long delay between updates. My excuse is that my brain was empty. Anyway, today the birthday present I bought Karen arrived, an enormous pile of Letraset Pro-markers and she said I could use them…

[Technical Note: It’s really hard to choose colours for real-world drawing as opposed to colouring on computer as I usually do (and impossible to go back if you change your mind.) But the saddest part is that scanning the picture changed all the colours to something else and I had to fix them in gimp afterwards anyway. Plus knowing that they won’t look the same on your screen as they do on mine. Ho hum.]

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Some regarded their love as 'unfortunate' but in a way they were lucky; his family were in the balloon business and the supply was to all intents and purposes limitless.

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2012-12-10 Grand

Dec12
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Although the concert we attended on Sunday was in a garden shed, it did in fact provide a grand piano (true story).

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Tips for musicians
Coping with cheap venues no. 14:
when no grand piano is provided

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2012-11-08 The Sound of Magic

Nov20
by on 2012-11-20 at 00:00
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I don’t know if you’ve ever heard this sound yourself? I imagine it is the sound of civilisation rushing in to fill the abhorred vacuum where the magic used to be.

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1.
2.
3 [suddenly...] POP!
K: What was /that/?

4. A: /That/ was the sound of magic disappearing

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2012-10-06 Purpose in Life

Oct07
by on 2012-10-07 at 00:00
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I recently realised that the entire purpose of the human race, from an evolutionary point of view, is to keep the batteries charged in our mobile devices.

BTW, now I am a published artist (well, doodler). Karen sang there on Wednesday, “I loves you Porgy” and “Love me or leave me” in Nina Simone style. She was fabulous, and I am so proud of her.

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No, Mother!
Of course my life has purpose!
Who else is going to keep my iPad charged?

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2012-08-28 Bad Breath

Aug30
by on 2012-08-30 at 00:00
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I hope I invented this one — it’s been sitting around on my “to do” pile for some time now. If not, please let me know who it was.

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1.
2. Blow into the bag, please sir.
3. Breathalyse? What did I do wrong?
4. No, not a breathalyser Sir, it's carbon sequestration.

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2012-06-18 Tent

Jun19
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Or as Michael Flanders had it:

June just rains and never stops:
Thirty days and spoils the crops.

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Now is the window of our discount tent made glorious summer?

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2012-05-11 Engineering – more than just a job (2)

May17
by on 2012-05-17 at 00:00
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More capers from Cornwall. Karen pointed out that she helped.

See also this comic.

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Lansallos beach, Cornwall
- great beach! with a stream running down to the sea...

- when I was a boy, if we went to the beach I'd spend the whole time building dams, routeing the water around -- I'd always end up with a sunburnt back - and a white face

- for example, I'd try to divert the stream to the other side of the rock...

- I could use this rock...

half an hour later...
~ now just some more sand here...

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Heist at the Ashmolean

May03
by on 2012-05-03 at 00:00
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At last, here’s the output from Adam Murphy’s comic drawing weekend at the Ashmolean. Took a bit of finishing and, though the festooned bass viol appears to be of wildly variable size, I’m fairly pleased with the result.

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Ladies — this has gone too far!
I need another bass viol — if we’re to play the five part Byrd fantasia!
Hower are you going to do that on /your/ pension, Susie dear?
Well spotted, Emma. If you’re all ready, I’ll propose a way we can get one…
OLD LADIES in HEIST at the ASHMOLEAN
The “Somerset” bass — the only one of its kind
Unfortunately, it’s kept in the most secure museum in the world…

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crazy, maybe — but I didn’t do that seismology OU course for nothing!
ZERO HOUR is in three months — Emma, you’re on Chemistry; Laura: Robotics; Eileen — social networks
and Alison… you’ve got a special job — knitting!
3 MONTHS LATER
[under the Ashmolean] Mole Ian – whir dig whir
~STOP~ tick tick
meanwhile in the security control room…
{pretty quiet today. Just how I like it}
[suddenly…] RUMBLE! RUMBLE!
strange – the whole building is shaking! must be an earthquake!
[and in the ladies’ loo…] quake’s /exactly/ on my prediction
Now, come on Laura!

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[Under cover of the quake … breakthrough!] CRASH! CRACK!
{why do they make the cubicles so small?}
{at last — quake’s stopped}
[Eileen’s been busy too…] FLASH MOB! ASHMOLEAN 3pm BRING INSTRUMENTS
[and soon the museum begins to fill up]
[at 3pm all over the museum]
[security are on high alert!]
LADIES
{one more musician isn’t going to be noticed…}
{and here it is}
PRESS
ZZAP {cameras down!}

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Now Emma’s chemistry on the glass…
🙂
this knitted viol on a balloon will cover my tracks for a few minutes [clingfilm]
{now, nonchalantly!}
hey — you!
{made it!}
one short bus ride later…
Ladies! I’m home!

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now for some music!
scrunge! screech! scrape!
No! No! No!
hey! this “viol” is made of papier mache!
~~ flutter ~~
Beat you to it, ladies! signed Old Men’s Viol Consort XXX P.S. come round and play Byrd some time!

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