An ugly cartoon for an ugly man at the centre of an ugly story. I have mixed feelings about this cartoon. I put it on Twitter and immediately deleted it. Am I perpetuating a terribly racist trope? I don’t think so. I think I’m simply shaming the man. There’s something so predictable about a man […]
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The worst part about writing anything based in the “real world” is when I get something wrong. I feel terrible when it happens, even though I also realise it’s an occupational hazard. I know I can’t stop my prejudices from informing my writing. That’s true of all writers and it would be foolish to think […]
Continue ReadingI have typically conflicting feelings about Bansky. Whilst I like most forms of public art, I’ve never understood the rationale that makes him so acceptable. He is, in my eyes, a decent graffiti artist but producing the kind of stencil-art that is seen in every city and town. Depending on its location, it’s sometimes viewed […]
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For the new Martin Rowson drawing challenge. For those of you who don’t get the reference and haven’t follow the career of Michael Gove, it’s long been rumoured that he once tried to unblock a toilet with a vacuum cleaner…
Continue ReadingWhy Dunciad.com?
It’s a cool domain name and it was available. Yes, I know. Available. Crazy, isn’t it?
Really?
Yes. It also helps that it’s also my favourite satire written by Alexander Pope, one of the most metrically pure English poets who also knew his way around a crude insult or two. If you’ve not read it, you should give it a try.
So this is satire, right?
Can’t deny it. There will be some. But it’s also an experiment in writing and drawing, giving work away for free in order to see how many people are willing to support a writer doing his thing. It’s the weird stuff that I wouldn’t get published elsewhere in this word of diminishing demands and cookie-cutter tastes.
