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IT'S EXTREMELY EASY for me to write material for this 'eggs' theme: more of these await your inspection, probably weakly. ROBBO Below we see some rather jolly comments from another cool blog that tickled my fancy: Rabsmith 10 May 2011 at 18:55 Thanks for joining my band of followers, Peter......sorry I've shunted the message in here. Compliment returned! cheers, Rab Smith.[Baby Boomer site]. Reply Delete Peter Richardson 10 May 2011 at 19:44 Great to see you here Rab and for any of you who are fans of seriously of the wall comics, think Floyd Gottfredson meets Ken Reid, meets, Leo Baxendals meets Skip Williamson then do check out Rab's Baby Boomer blog: http://zoomertoonsrabsmith.blogspot.com Reply Delete Rabsmith 10 May 2011 at 22:36 I'm rather flattered by that description, Peter

YET ANOTHER in my seemingly endless variations on imagery of my cat-babe character VERONICA, here we see her for a second time in her fetching A CLOCKWORK ORANGE garb-clobber, she looks slightly devious in this pose, but nothing too off-putting, I hope. The 1971 film that inspired this drawing has been a big part of my life: I lived through the long ban [over 25 years] the film suffered from 1973 onwards. This is easily my fave-rave cult picture of all time [a mainstream studio like Warner Bros putting out a film about British Bootboys  and  set in the future, made by a 'serious' director: this was unchartered territory, indeed!] the bizarre costumes/ grotesque production design/ bad-dream quality of the first 40 minutes especially is a nightmarish tour-de-force, and although this film is most certainly not a 'pleasant watch' it is unique stuff indeed, very unlike the usual assembly-line fodder usually put out by the big studios. There is a lot of definitely dodgy,  min...

I AM SOMETIMES ACCUSED OF BEING 'mildly racist' after I declared I will never put depictions of overseas people into my cartoons: but really, this is just a typical kneejerk reaction from hotheaded cynics who take a lot of statements the wrong way, on belly-aching forums where some members have nothing better to do with their time other than try and bring others down. IT IS TRUE that I am openly anti-Political Correctness, I believe that PC started off well-meaning, but it has created a situation where EXTREME  anti-PC lobbyists like Donald Trump are in the running to rule over a powerful modern State: I will leave you to make up your own particular deductions from such a scenario. Anyway, I do in fact mix with overseas folks and treat them just the same as I do the Brits: in fact here is a cartoon I just done for a fellow artist: no prizes for guessing which nation she originates from:

HERE WE SEE the three separate drawings put together in a HELLSCAPE-like scenario. It has come out looking more like  KING KONG pastiche than I imagined: I am happy with it, though: in fact, it's a wee bit like a Cyclops out of a Ray Harryhausen animated Special Effects Film. I drew this around 18 months ago [Jan  2015], and this is it only just finished now! I might do one last 'beauty pass' on this image---we'll see. RAB

WHERE DO  CARTOON IDEAS COME FROM? ------This is impossible to answer really, because virtually every cartoonist asked this question invariably answers: 'I don't really know, it's a mystery'. This is not simply being pretentious or elitist, like almost every other cartoonist out there regularly coming up with new visuals, I honestly have no idea where on Earth a lot of these strange images originate from: however, it is true that odd behaviour seen in the real World or the Media can often kick-start an original vision: ---for example, years ago I was watching an OPEN UNIVERSITY- like programme late one night, and these eccentric scientific experts came on, and they were all having a very heated discussion as to what origins the humble EGG stemmed from during evolution: was the concept of the egg animal, mineral or vegetable?------Anyway, this passionate boffin came on, and he was adamant that the common egg was in his belief a FRUIT! I thought this was downright hilario...

A Slightly rude cartoon, but really quite mild within the grand scheme of things. Sex is such a bizarre human trait when you think about it......it often just starts with patting the bottom of  a nice-looking stranger, and not long after you are in bed with them. Or so I hear....... Enjoi! Robbo

FOLLOWING ON FROM THE LAST VISUAL ITEM,  [Veronica in Devil gear , sitting in a large hand]  here we see a deluxe facial  close-up of an incidental Demonic character, the final part of which should be added on here before too long.

IT'S HIGH TIME I added some more unseen 'polished' cartoonery, and seen below is the first 'component' I have prepared in various states of development. This image seen here is Part One of Three Parts of a fairly elaborate composite; my very best, time-consuming stuff is done this way:  I do lots of quick sketches of course but I do also intend putting some of my very best material on here. In 2015, I experienced a computer 'crash' of my own doing [too much mucking about with my stored images] and I thought I lost a fair bit of unfinished work: they all turned up just recently, and most of these will continue to be finally finished. TOP IMAGE/Plate One: The revamped version of the original drawing, with a new, improved Veronica face added and other embellishments. BOTTOM IMAGE/Plate Two: The original version of the drawing: the female form/body is fine, but that feminine face needed an uplift/facelift. Whether I drew it too fast [we all do this from time to ...

MORE RELENTLESS RIBBING from my egg-themed satirical cartoons: and I must say, I find there is an endless stream of in-built ideas that are naturally springing from this egg idea. Another fairly [deliberately] rough rendition, but as planned I can still spend the bulk of my time on my central BOOMER characters here: the satirical targets are simple [but hopefully effective] second-string characters which I simply use as the butt of the gag ideas... mere .throwaway fodder, but fine for doodles like this one. A lot more of these on the way: they are so quick and easy to do. There is some polished stuff in the works as well---all coming up shortly. RABBO

I AM HAPPY TO REPORT I was able to find this long-lost [oh, alright, late 2014!] image I believed accidentally wiped from my previous desktop archives [this can happen if you are not careful]:  anyway it turned up again last week and I am keen to add it on here. This one was the foreground Veronica figure featured in a wide-angled, Wild West scene of all the Boomer characters, with rifles, pistols and bullets zinging all over the place. I stopped doing it after I thought I lost this element seen here. The second image is another unfinished, unseen affair planned to be included within the same composite:  a  mostly bottled-ink rendition of two background representations of B.B. and Jet Blanc, still in pretty rough shape, but this is how my cartoons usually start off----all rough elements get removed after this stage. I am confident that these  images have  never appeared on the web in any form, until now.

THE MAIN purpose of this site is to promote my characters, concepts and ideas, however regular readers will surely have noticed that a fair bit of satirical material creeps in here now and again, and I have came up with a remedy to avoid spending too much time on non-productive satire [I can 'do' satire, but I prefer character stuff, any day of the week.]...these are great for mucking around with, though. THE BADD EGGS concept ensures I can spend most of my drawing time on the BOOMER central characters, whilst at the same time, introduce satirical targets into the mix in the exact same frame: the choice of EGGS has proved a wise one-----this subject is very quick and easy to draw, in fact it's not unlike doing Mal Judges' NUMSKULLS characters that most people seem to remember from the BEEZER comic. The EGGS theme also serves up a seemingly never-ending thread of endless ideas, so it looks like I will be sticking with this theme for pragmatic reasons, if nothing else. BE...

THE LAST of the accepted satirical cartoons I sold to a U.S. magazine---for the meantime, apparently more are due to be published----------this one is an 'update' of a very old gag I came up with in the first years of this Century. Like many other fledgling cartoonists finding their 'identity', I went through a phase of doing FAR SIDE- like material------ I spent as much as a year trying to ape the approach of Gary Larson, surely one of the most influential cartoonists the Planet ever bore. Unlike many cartoonists---even some  very good ones------Larson refused to clone or capitalize upon the work of those who eked out a trail before him------tearing up the rulebook altogether and minting his own personal, skewed vision from scratch: he was so unique and ahead of the game that it took a while before the masses caught on to his [initially] very strange material: the long-term result being, of course, that his cartoon foundations eventually became the 'norm' and t...

ANUDDER KWICKO SKETCH in my fairly newly-minted BAD EGGS sub-series: ------these are deliberately kept in a pretty rough and raw state, just enough to put over the idea. This method is also great for retaining spontanaeity---so much is often lost when the endless refinements via computer get added on. Enjoi!

more salvaged A CLOCKWORK ORANGE satirical elements---notably the bizarre 'cow sculpture' I drew in late 2014. Also: a closer view of some of the separate elements in my fairly recent cartoon set in Hell. Talk about Hard-Drive Clear-Out........

MORE 'LONG LOST' Graffik imagery I had written off as being gone forever: although I try and keep back-up copies of all of my digital color stuff [which exists only in cyber-space, naturally] , now and again those tempremental computer drives manage to 'lose' a lot of images 'accidentally' and this was the case as illustrated here. When I got my new desktop recently, I was delighted to retrieve a lot of the larger elements which I thought I had lost permanently:  some of this material is mooted to be added on here, including various  never-seen-before stuff. This image may be familiar to some readers of this site as it has already appeared as a portion of the posting dated Nov 21 , 2014: Return of the Babe, a 'widescreen' image that attracted a fair number of hits. The main problem with the wider shots is that the characters and other details are usually shrunken-down and thus a lot of the resolution of the original cartoon images as originally drawn are...

THE SELLERS OF MY NEW COMPUTER MOTOR very kindly transferred a lot of the previous images from my last muvvaboard onto this new machine---'twas very nice of them, I never asked them!--------and looking through some of the more obscure , almost-forgotten graphics, I was happy to discover two 'lost' cartoons I done in early 2015. These two were part of a long thread I done on a snooty UK cartoon forum, and I honestly thought I had lost these two images for good. I could have went back to retrieve copies from the cartoon thread I done there, but I do not especially want to go back to that site as I have vowed never to read the replies to my postings on there [ little wonder they banned me, it retrospect!] :  apparently after an official ban, there is an 'autopsy' thread  from some gloating members---I have never seen this either. Anyway, back to these two drawings, they were drawn very quickly, and were part of a MEDIEVEL theme I started ekeing out at the time. [ I rea...

HERE WE SEE the second satire magazine gag I got accepted for publication this past March [2016]: I tried further afield than the shores of Britain as most of the space for still or 'spot' cartoons in the satirical publications in UK mags is pitifully cramped---I crave more space to breathe! The overseas magazines still hark back to traditional graphics that lavished better overall production values, and so I approached the look of these works with more of a NEW YORKER ambience. ABOUT THIS CARTOON: Unlike a lot of my modern drawings---many of which are assembled from separate sheets of paper-------this example  here was 'all in a oner' with only minimal tweaking required . namely the figures in the bed were shrank down a fair bit to make the bedstead look more imposing and impressive. Lots of blurring added throughout of course, for a deliberately muted 'depth-of-field' look. This was all done on a single sheet of used A4 paper---cheap parchment matters not a jo...