Sketchy LI

….I was approached to contribute to a contemporary comic…

…fuck…it’s been an awfully long time since I’ve drawn sequentially and wasn’t quite sure I still had that skill set…

…dug out an old idea from 5 years ago and gave it a test drive…

…then they started talking about checking drafts and I got a confidence wobble and backed away quite quickly…

…seems things have got a lot more regimented since I was publishing…

…but hey, I’ve this plotted in case someone is less edity and I get over my own lack of confidence!….

From The Childhood Stamp Collection

…via the sketch book…

…a little something I jammed out whilst taking a pre-shop-close break…

…seed planted by Scotty…who talked murals then never got back….

…Scotty, phone home.

…(shit…not much brain space for drawing or posting at the moment…whoda thought telling everyone you’re closing their favourite record shop would cause soooo much chaos…thank the little baby Jesus it’s not  Christmas any time soon….)

…(stamp collection seems to end in 1976 with the Xmas issue of that year…I would’ve been 13/14…mmm….records…..).

…(really in love with that 4 colour ballpoint pen…it’s so messy!).

And When Im Not Stressing Out About Closing The Shop

…and re-decorating…

…and gardening…

…and Trade-me…

…and remembering to keep up the personal hygiene…

…and wondering where Dee is with my car…

…and….

Doctors With Computers That Surf

…I’m pretty sure I know Doctors with computers who surf….

…(another of the strips I did for a General Practice newsletter that wanted strip cartoon’s about Doc’s & comp’s…the surfboard was optional).

Twitch

…twitch twitch….

…twitch twitch twitch.

Word For Word

…and 10 foot tall…

…from my 9 year old mind to you.

Where Was I

…oh, that’s right…7 years ago I was just arriving back from the UK with a sketch book full of story ideas that I thought I should commit to paper…

…when, suddenly, I was distracted by a whole bunch of other ideas that just had to be drawn first….

…and then….

…the original from 2009….

https://boredinarecordshop.wordpress.com/2013/01/12/attenborough-i-aint/

….and now for the rest of the story….

(in weekly instalments  of course).

More From My Old School Books

…the writing not the pictures….

….just the facts.

My Old Mum

….gave me my old school books…that she’d been “saving”….

….good on ya’ Mum.

It’s How You Hold The Stick

…as much as what the stick sticks into.