Do Not Disturb

Student houses are like beehives. Everyone has a little space to fit into.

Living signs

These guys depress me unspeakably. And what is a 'golf sale' anyway?

Times we miss

I wish it was the Seventies.
Harry thinks he belongs in the Seventeenth Century.
Sophia misses being seven,
And Sophie would prefer to live in the 1870s, when apparently things were better.

So I've been reading Joe Sacco lately.
His arts's interesting, because he's so practiced and finessed at the environments and background details that tell the reader hey, he actually was there, but chooses to make all the people he draws grotesque and weirdly proportioned.. He's just really damn good at drawing ugly people. He's illustrated his travels across the middle East, Bosnia and other places with a host of characters that are just about on the good sidely of 'badly drawn'. Also, everything has big gross teeth.
He extends this to himself, as he is always depicted as a sort of eyeless, big-lipped goblin. This is a pretty smart way of avoiding the reputation for narcissism and self-obsession that hangs around other autobiographical cartoonists. Had a go myself, but I'm just too darn pretty.

Depressed zines

Looking back on my old sketchbooks (I have many. Like a thigh-high tower of them), I was recalling a singular period two years ago when I was feeling both very creative and very hard-done-by. Since I'm thinking of doing something similar, if perhaps a little more upbeat, I thought I'd stick a few of them up here to remind myself.

This beekeeping life

This is an inane comic strip I used to spend a lot of thought on, for reasons now unclear to me. Still, I was remembering it fondly, and decided I'd see if the magic was still there. Marvel:




Er, yeah. So that's what that is. Moving on now.

Me being Kate Beaton

So I've been reading Kate Beaton's webcomic lately. I don't know if it's her cute style, imitated above, or the fact that reading for long enough makes me feel like I've had a few drinks with a bunch of history students.
Anyway, I've been reading and listening to a lot of history lately, so I thought I'd give something similar a go. Here are a few modest examples.

...Well, I enjoyed it, even if you didn't.

We're cute

Been having a bit of fun with the differing shapes and types represented by the happy folks I live with. What a fine bunch.