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Hiya Readers: sorry I have been totally off-line for a week:  last week I got a brand new desktop but to be honest I have  in recent times been so 'scunnered' with computers in general that I seriously considered packing in the internet altogether:  I had no sound in my computer for 9 months, and some sites were practically un-view-able. I stopped watching TV [100 per cent]   in 2003 [13 years ago at the time of writing] and I have never missed it so I am sure I could do the same with the internet...I am also one of the miniscule 7 per cent of the population who has never owned a mobile phone. However, the good news is I have my  computer sound back at last, I obviously have a brand new hard-drive and this new computer I have is more modern and advanced and therefore speedier---so if it continues in this healthier vein, I may well stick with the internet...any more annoying problems and I will more than likely pack it all  in permanently, though. The w...

These two New York Residents appear to be evolving into a sort of double-act: I am picking up a brand new desktop tomorrow so after I reconnect everything I should be back onto Gimp and scanning cartoons etc...........fingers crossed but these tablet pix will suffice .on here for the meantime. Yes I am fully aware that the new drawings are a non stop barrage of quick-time sketches at the moment....however these rudimentary roughs are basically where you learn about drawing..........meefinx. UPDATE,        4 JUNE, 2016: NEW UPGRADED SCAN IMAGE ADDED

The Badd Eggs is a basic continuation of my Prats of the CCBC sub-series which will be cropping up on here occassionally. This new direction is essentially the same as PRATS or my earlier MR MEN satirical pastiche series: the only real difference with these new ones is that the Boomer crowd also feature opposite the satirical targets. UPDATE, 5 JUNE 2016: ------clearer version of rough sketch, properly scanned in:

I find out toomorrow if and when I am getting my main desktop computer back but in the meantime this photographing of tablet camera material is proving to be enough to keep the site going. These very basic roughs are the visual equivalent of a musician putting together a rudimentary demo tape of their latest song......going into the recording studio to hone and refine the basic elements are the musical equivalent of a cartoonist polishing a new image using elaborate Photoshop techniques. As I often make clear on here, creating  these basic roughs are the most fun part of making cartoons and they do not take very long....in fact, drawing very quickly almost always results in improved and effective cartoonery. Robbo UPDATE:     4 June 2016 Within the complexities of installing a new desktop computer, the only real problem I encountered was my old [in computer terms] scanner/printer would not connect to my new machine due to outmoded drivers...........I thought I w...

More personality- based imagery which I am veering towards moreso these days........this sort of stuff is a lot easier than having to come up with strong single gag images every single attempt....I will try and do a bit of both: gag-orientated as well as this personality based cartoon material. The two characters seen here of course are the two main suporting players from my B BOOMER concept......the ever-present statue of Liberty aka Libby and evergreen King Kong variant KOONG KING. This image is only slightly rude.... I have deliberately avoided real lechery and K K looks fairly bemused and innocent when confronted with the Statue's hithero unseen underapparrel. I still believe that personality based imagery like this can be just as effective and amusing than gag and idea orientated material. See my usual ploy of adding in miniscule characters to assist the sense of scale I desired. Robbo UPDATE, JUNE 4, 2016: new upgraded scan of cartoon added

Here we see yet another excuse for me to put out a 'quite sexy' cartoon with another of my Statue of Liberty variants: Yes this is all quite chauvanistic material on my part but really I feel this imagery is fairly mild and restrained......the mammaries are deliberately done in different sizes just to add a bit of interest. Tezza Gilliam of Python Animation fame sometimes depicted mammaries like this, and I freely admit I lifted this approach to drawing female breasts directly from him....if I 'lift' a new way of drawing something from another artist I will freely admit to doing so.......unlike a few dodgy toonsmiths who lurk out there in cyberspace. Some of these folks can get their pink frillies in a twist at the slightest innocent remark they over -analyze and take all the wrong way. Robbo UPDATE   4 JUNE 2016:   new higher rez scan added

Here is an example of the benefits which can be attained by creating your own original characters..... Once you get over the hurdle of coming up with good designs and strong-looking central characters (by far the most difficult obstacle to clear, following a Century of tried and tested cartoon creations from the pool of humanity) the good news is you can get away with a lot more once the characters become instantly recognizable and you are comfortable drawing them ( this normally takes a few hundred drawings of each individual character, before you reach this level): although quick sketches  alone are usually enough here.....you can knock out scores of these in a single day fairly easily....this is how I went about this: Anyway just take a look at the endless imagery seen in the media featuring Minnie Mouse, Snoopy and Bart Simpson etc......a lot of this graphic material is personality based, meaning if your characters look good and accomplished enough, you can get away with them j...