For Authenticity

…I asked my mother to refresh my memory on some of gems of wisdom she imparted to me when I was  a child….Scan 616

…I think she farted whilst she was telling me this one.

And The Devil Take The Bedpost

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…um….

….oh, that’s right…looking at my archive I noticed that this cartoon was the last that I completed in 1991…I  stopped  drawing ….I think my enthusiasm wained because it didn’t feel like my “art” was going anywhere and it most definitely wasn’t going to feed me….

…I walked away.

Undisclosed Location

…but here’s a clue…IMG_4423

 

…and another from the the front window….(you can see the road but those on the road can’t see you)…

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…fire on….

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…gear stowed….

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..time to relax & enjoy the scenery….

IMG_4381…have dinner & start mucking about with a pen….

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…and drinking…

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…it’s always a pleasure to find a great table to drink work at …

 

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…day one…

…first order of business…

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…don’t try this at home or on holiday…

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…and for day two….

….always have a rainy day project in reserve…

 

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…even if it means doing what you do for a living on your holiday…

IMG_4411…there are benefits….

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…try not to talk to the local flora….

IMG_4392…and be careful which pot you use…..

IMG_4402…eat properly (goat sausages!!!,…I love my local butcher)….

IMG_4404…whilst not loosing sight of the main reason for getting away from it all…

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…which was….

…trying to aggregate all of the ideas running around in the sketch book with the aim of gaining some semblance of order with a hint of logical time flow…

 

IMG_4396….it took hours & hours & hours….

 

…but…(spoiler alert for those who won’t be able to resist embiggening*)…

…the results were….

…er…results….

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…that’s close to 50 individual story ideas (at a very rough count)…22 pages worth of those already plotted…

…and then I put all the nice clean records back in their covers ….IMG_4420

 

…and went home.

 

…(*the word embiggen is brought to you by…

https://monsterinthenextroom.wordpress.com/2015/03/23/sketch-pad-cloistered/

….go check out Clare’s blog, home of embiggening, today!)….

 

…(and thank you very very very much Mad’s & Phil).

Singing In The Rain

…I’m singing in the rain…Scan 609

 

…my washing ain’t dry-ing…it’s drip drip dripping again.

 

 

…(whoa – so this is what happens when sleep deprivation meets washing day meets archival ‘toons…I might be on to something here…..).

Worse Than A Cliff Hanger

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…much worse than a cliffhanger…..

…I’m out of town and off-grid till Tues’….

…no speculation can be entered into…..

 

…(see you Tuesday).

Good God Is That The Time

…quarter to Feastock already?…

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…tickets on sale now… $40 ….

…only at Too Tone…only for CASH….

…no tickets held no phone sales no negotiations will be entered into…

….no amount of pleading will help…

 

….see you here before I see you there.

 

 

…(…last year…

Feastock 2014 Ate My Homework

…year before…

https://boredinarecordshop.wordpress.com/2013/04/28/feastock-2013/

https://boredinarecordshop.wordpress.com/2013/05/03/what-too-tone-really-did-at-feastock/

…hopefully more pic’s this year….bring yer smiley face).

To Meet You Pleased

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…I was (and am) so crap at drawing female characters….I really should study the form and practice more….

…(when??).