A new article by me, over yonder, about Trump’s speech before Mount Rushmore, and how he appropriates American culture as his own, from the Old West, through the civil rights movement, up to the music of Neil Young.
Continue ReadingGroggy Monday
Late again. It would be shameful to specify the time I crawled from my pit this morning but, then, I was writing deep into the early hours to get an article sent off for the start of Monday. I now need to write myself out of my grogginess, induced by a deep and vivid dream […]
Continue ReadingKanye Vouchers
Had a long lie-in since it’s Sunday, so I’m late to my desk. Late to the news as well and there’s so much to parse this morning. I’m not sure where to begin: with the rumoured government plan to give us all ÂŁ500 vouchers to get the economy going again or Kanye West running for […]
Continue ReadingBooze is back…
Worked into the early hours, drawing that particularly unpleasant cartoon, which I decided to post because, honestly, I like posting cartoons even more than I like posting articles. I also suspect some of you enjoy the cartoons more than my written work and, if so, then these cartoons are for you. For me, that’s a […]
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Picard: A Few Quick Thoughts About The End
I prematurely reviewed Picard earlier in the week because I’d enjoyed it so much. There’s not much I can add to that beyond saying: I still enjoyed it. The last two episodes were not without faults, however… I’d left it with the crew about to reach the planet where the synths were made and lived. […]
Continue ReadingStarkers
As much as it is measured by affection, success is too often measured by hate. Hate proves a useful metric because it allows writers to test how successful they’ve been, positioning their selves on one side of the political divide. How much the Right or Left hates you often reflects how much the other side […]
Continue ReadingThe Picard Binge
My morning routine is always the same once I reach my desk but I should perhaps start to avoid that first hit of Twitter. It can put me into a foul mood and I’m already pretty tetchy. At the risk of turning this blog into a diary of my continuing and utterly frustrating struggle with […]
Continue ReadingOld Cartoon
I’m still drawing but I’m really hesitant about putting new cartoons here. I have 40 new for the collection I’ll put out at some point. A few are still with magazines but the silence is deafening. I’ve now come to the point where I don’t think I’ll ever be properly published or have somebody pay […]
Continue ReadingLawns & Lifeforce (1985)
Everybody has a nemesis. Mine just happens to be about forty feet long and about twenty feet across. It’s also green… I’m approximating. I have no idea how big the lawn is. I could go out and measure it, but I don’t like going near the damn thing. It makes me ill. I’m also not […]
Continue ReadingThe Rise of Disney+
[Mild The Rise of Skywalker spoilers ahead] Good news about the new hayfever tablets. I was awake all yesterday. I also drew some new cartoons and then took the evening off to watch the latest Star Wars movie. It’s the “latest” only in the sense that I hadn’t seen it but this week’s arrival of […]
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