Unimagined Ramblings

| Beef | 
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My brother likes beef… Rare. 

| Costa |
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Me & Stu in our natural stomping grounds (which is coincidentally how they make the coffee there). I don’t know if you guys actually care about these, but I like making them; they’re the first collection of projects in which I’m drawing for the sake of it. Strange… If anyone has an idea for these, do tell me. I like drawing familiar places from memory.

| The Pocket Watch Fiasco | 
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I enjoyed doing the Masque one, so I thought I’d make one for TPWF… Even though it’s only me… I’m getting into drawing places I know.

If you care (which you’re well within your rights and sanity to not) my music can be found over yonder. 

| Snooker |

“It’s the waves’ turn to break.”

| Masque | 
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Every now and then I forget I can’t draw and try something like this… This is the band I’m in; Masque. From left-to-right, Me (Bass), Roy (Vox & Keys), Dave Emm (Drums & Everything Else), Dave Marsh (Guitars) and Andy (More Guitars). We’re making an album at the moment, but do check out our previous efforts: 

Masque - Parallel Worlds

| Apples |

Another oldie, although one I don’t think I’ve released anywhere else and it’s rather an old joke… Still, changing a 2 to a 3 seems to have done the trick.

| What Did The Native American Say To The Cactus? |
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Thought I’d give you something old whilst the comic’s in limbo. So here’s an old comic from back in the days of ‘The Collins And Key Word’ when me and Stu used to send each other the starts of jokes for the other to write the punchline… 

If you guys like these littl’uns do tell me, they’re so much quicker to draw.

Here’s a tree going Mnurrh! You’re welcome…

I took a camera with me on my commute home. Not a bad walk, as it happens… 

| 26.3 - Submarine |

No, seriously, I don’t. I was going through it the other day with a friend and I concluded I don’t like The Beatles, The Stones, Led Zeppelin, Guns’n’Roses, Status Quo, any of the ‘great’ oldies… And I call myself a musician?!

I’m going on a break for a bit. I’ve got about 3 months worth of comics written in backlog but I just don’t have the time to make them at the moment. Still, half a year without a break’s rather good for me.

Be Seeing You! (In May/June)

| 26.2 - Marking |

I love marking graffiti… I was originally going to have all the speech in these comics hand written… As you can see from this strip, type was a much better move.

If there’s one thing I’ve learnt teaching so far is that surprise is an excellent tool. A kid asked me the other day ‘Is there a way to make one plus one be zero?’ - fully expecting a negative response - to which I responded ‘Yes’. The look on his face at that point of sincerity was priceless… (Consider the integers modulo 2, by the way. Equivalently an odd number plus an odd number will be even, so the remainders upon division by two give 1+1 = 0… Too much maths?)

PS - I’m fully aware H isn’t strictly a group, as embarrassing events don’t have an additive inverse… And don’t I know it.