Film Lines

This week, the Cartoonists' Forum Cartoon Competition asked for something on the subject of  - Film Lines.

[Later]: I'm pleased to announce that this one won First Place in the competition!

Are you trying to be funny ...?

After a very long lay-off from cartooning, or indeed drawing of any kind, I'm back with an entry to the Cartoonists' Forum Competition. This week's challenge was a cartoon using the set caption "Are you trying to be funny ..?" the answer to which is, I guess ... yes, I am.

It's always nice to renew acquaintance with Dr Frankenstein and his Monster.

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Daily Star 4 (Late Night Edition)

Pens of Yesteryear

I've been sorting out some of my drawing equipment and in the process uncovered the bottles of ink needed for two of my favourite drawing pens. One was a very small bottle of black Rotring ink for a marker pen I used to draw "Journey" below. I stood the pen up with its reservoir in the ink bottle but even after several hours the nib still wouldn't work, so I binned it (and the bottle).

Better results with the old bottle of Quink and the Osmiroid sketching pen. That's what I used for "Daily Star 3" below and it looks like it works really well. Hurrah. Looking forward to using it again.

Journey

"With hope in his heart and all his worldly goods on his back, he set off on his great journey."

An illustration for this week's Illustration Friday topic - Journey.

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Daily Star

King

This week's challenge from Illustration Friday is : King. I've dug out another cartoon from the Archive (originally done with a sketching fountain pen and ink), changed the caption and run it through Photoshop to colour it.

It's nice to be back on the treadmill.

Proteus Pencil

1B pencil on lined foolscap

Here's something from a long time ago. This is a pencil drawing I did for the cover of a fanzine called PROTEUS, some time in the mid-60s. I'd have traced this onto a wax stencil before cutting through the wax to produce something that could be run off on a duplicator. 

Technology has moved on a bit since then.

Could have gone better.

This week, the challenge from The Cartoonists' Forum Competition was a cartoon using the given caption - Well that could have gone better.

War

This week, the Cartoonists' Forum Competition asked for something using the given caption "Of course you know this means war."

I've taken an old fanzine illustration and given it a retread.

Thanks

This week's entry for the Cartoonists' Forum Competition. The fixed caption was - Thanks.

Clever

My entry for this weekend's Cartoonists' Forum Competition, using the set caption "You have to admit, it's clever."