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Here we see BB looking like a 'toff' [British term] or a 'swell' [American term] in this natty li'i ole character study: I am unashamedly anti-P.C. and so I like to slip in a wholly irresponsible image now and again, like the Babular One seen here enjoying a smokin' cigar.. I do not smoke myself but I think smoking looks cool in cartoons---shame this sort of thing is largely tabboo in most publications for the mass media nowadays.... This drawing also contains another 'first': BB has 'baby-blue' eyes here, which has turned out OK, after his years of 'black inkspot' eyes---ah, the march of progress! Plate One: the finished color toon Plate Two:    the color character and elements awaiting rearranging Plate Three:    the original ballpoint drawing, complete with tear in top-right side of paper---I use recycled paper to great effect.

THE FLY cartoon imagery easily produces the most striking visuals from any of my various fantasy concepts: it's incredibly strange, very bizarre character stuff that provides seemingly endless scope for absurdist escapism and mayhem. I certainly needed something containing 'hard science-fiction' to provide an outlet for such material; BABY BOOMER   provides a very handy outlet for most of my fantasy-themed requirements, but trial-and-error experiments on that project never really worked out too well when I tried out sci-fi themes within that format. I have actually managed to get 'character' stuff into this very odd material [as is evident here] : the two mutants seem to be getting along just swell, going by the 'beer sharing' scenario seen here. This close-up view strikes me [after completing the cartoon] as being inspired by---of all people---the legendary Dudley D Watkins, in the effective  close-ups he often did of Tom Thumb in the 1960s BIMBO nursery co...

Just tonite recieved [thru a well-known social meeja site] this drawing-related item, which is very unusual inasmuch as it is only the second image on this archive that is not actually drawn by me------unknown to me, I was being secretly drawn by a clandestine artist during my stay in New York, at the Jazz Cafe near Central Park-----------in walking distance from the spot where John Lennon was shot. This is a fair likeness of me alongside  a budding young film-maker called David Zoel from Minneapolis , who furnished me with this image---it has a Crumb-like ambience and makes a nice change.  Drawn by an Oz artist called Dom. second picture:  me today, finishing a weekend bevvy between drawings,  for a  likeness-comparison

Here's the second instalment from my new concept aimed at the U.S. market: as yet, the imagery revealed here does not give a great deal away regarding the finished item, but all will be revealed on here before too long. The subject-matter here looks Earth-Bound and mundane by my usual standards, but rest assured, these components are but a mere backdrop to the usual outlandish events usually associated with my stuff.........little do these unsuspecting punters on this new forum I am pitching them to know what I have up my sleeve for them. Plate One: the altered artwork after I add GIMP-engendered embellishments. Plate Two: I need a basic drawing on paper for starting off; this rough drawing is all I require----just done on recycled paper.

Here is yet another 'new' departure for my cartoon dabblings: stuff with a slightly more 'adult' outlook------I have been into this sort of thing for a fair while [I'm no prude!]  , it's a sort of 'homage' to my passion for collecting old-style British seaside postcards, what with their pneumatic women and bawdy subjectmatter. My bathroom at home is festooned with framed, vintage [read: 1950s-70s] Bamforth [and other publishers] saucy postcard output---very colorful they are too. This ' silicone chimplants' play-on-words entry  seen here has been inked by me before, as far back as 2000. The original version  is long lost amongst my considerable archives: if it ever turns up, I may well add that one on here too. There are more of these suckers in the can to be added at leisure later. Plate One:   the finished item Plate Two:     the colored characters, easier drawn and colored large before shrinking Plate Three:      the original rough sketch ...

So----where are we at now, then?  That previous posting featuring the giant Veronica Robot   is the last of the basic rough cartoons from last Winter to be  added on here : these  were from 3 months back in January, 2015, which just goes to show how long it can sometimes take to get through a backlog of cartoon material. I still have a fair backlog of recent unseen cartoons---about 60 or so finished line drawings, running the gamut from fairly straightforward scenarios to very elaborate composites----building up since Jan 2015. These are more nicely-rendered and accomplished than the  winter roughs; these roughs are tops for belting out new ideas on paper, and since Dec 2014 [a scant 4 months ago at the time of writing] I have a couple of 'new' concepts well  under way, namely THE FLY   and MEDIEVEL WORLDES, as well as various odds-and sods including several  one-off cartoons------- and even a handful of caricatures. All of  this does not inc...

I have cast my eye on a USA site as a potential outlet for my Manic Toonery: I can reach a larger audience  for my fantasy imagery over  there ,  because, as a comparison I recently done shows,  the UK  cartoon sites get pitiful viewing figures in comparison.   I also deliberately draw in a very 'American' style as I am not too keen on contemporary UK cartooning in general---the old school stuff was great,---I have many hundreds of 60s/70s UK comics-------- but a recent shuftie through the  current  BEANO , or the weakly satire mags---which now feature mostly postage-stamp-sized cartoons ----   for example,  has left me less than wholly impressed. This blog is great for archiving stuff and showing new cartoons, but I need to gauge response on a Public Forum  with some interaction with other creative people---I had a false start regarding this elsewhere ,  but time to try again, perhaps. I have posted one or two items there...