Sketchy LXXXIII

….first one I’ve written fresh in years…

…(…hmmm….feels like I may “recycled” some old story lines…and I’m pretty sure Yoof & Arty never had a cat before…but who’s around to police that?!?…)

Sketchy LXXXII

…this one is for my good friend Dee…

…who had never seen someone butter cake….

…so I had to make up a story about the origins of buttering cake…

…(when in doubt, always blame the Country Women’s Institute)…

Sketchy LXXXI

…I went back and checked….

…it’s been along time since I attempted to do stuff sequentially….

…y’know…comics…

…having some “fun” getting my head back in the game…

…figured if I stopped drawing patterns and went back into the notebook and trawled for storylines it would all come flooding back…

….this may take some time…

…it’s also been an age since I handled cash….

…Kate and the Queen are on seperate bills…

…(illustrated below if you’re not from around here)….

…(OMG…could Mrs. A’ be using 2 bills at once?)….

Sketchy LXXX

….last lot of “Achievement Badges For Your Shit-Job”…

…unless you can think of any to add?….

Sketchy LXXIX

…some more “Achievement Badges For Your Shit-Job”….

…gotta earn ’em all…

…oh, wait….

…someones already coined a similar phrase, haven’t they?….

Sketchy LXXVIII

…some more to go under the title of the last post….

…more to come…

Sketchy LXXVII

…dredged from my previous sketchbook (circa Oct’ 2019) and reflecting the nature of some behaviours observed during my time in a low wage retail environment (not the record shop…that was a no wage environment!)…

…(and because I was never a boy-scout but needed those badges)…

…(and, yes, there are more)…

…(a whole lot more)….

Sketchy LXXVI

…yeah…this one will probably get me lynched….

…it was initially written almost 6 years ago….

…in what can only be described as “darker times”…

….you can call me the Bad Sanders….

Sketchy LXXV

…so…I’ve somewhat returned to my roots…working at night and scrawling in a sketch book on breaks…

…and…well…I guess it was inevitable that I started to doodle sequentially like I did nearly 40 years ago…

….admittedly there wouldn’t have been a plotted script to work from and lite roughs to ink over 40 years ago, but y’know, it’s a similar vibe….kinda….

…(…holy shit!…this anecdote is nearly 40 years old…)…

…(…holy shit!…I just doom scrolled back thru the blog and discovered I haven’t posted a cartoon for just over 5 years….)…

…(….holy shit!…my entire creative output for 5 years has involved either octopuses, skulls or flies….)….

….(holy shit)….

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!….