Virus Dreams
I don’t have a shrink. I have a blog. Times are hard. It will have to do… I’ve noticed that I’m dreaming more than normal, which is odd given how I’m also drinking too much caffeine. I should really be awake half the night. I also know that dreaming is usually a good indicator of […]
Continue ReadingTrump Meme
There’s a laughable right-wing meme by the cartoonist Ben Garrison out there which depicts a muscled Trump covered in words and phrases such as “liberty” and “freedom”, whilst bullets representing “Islam”, “FBI” and “gay agenda” bounce off him. This is my slightly more realistic version.
Continue ReadingIvanka
Nobody did like this one…
Continue ReadingCompetence and its conspicuous absence
A new week and I’m just off the back of too many hours crosshatching a cartoon that’s really not worth the effort. During the tedious time it takes do fill a space with horizontal, vertical and two kinds of diagonal lines, my mind strayed to thinking about competence. Specifically, I suppose, I got to thinking […]
Continue ReadingA Sunday Ramble
A quick ramble through the Sunday verbiage and it turns out that curse about “living in interesting times” really was a curse, after all. Really, where do we begin to catalogue this ruby-veined tumescence of abject incompetence? We really need a new lexicon of words to properly convey the scale of these various crises. Words […]
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My Photo of Robert Vaughan
I was writing up the “My Books” page for this blog when I found myself searching through old folders of files. It shocked me to discover that it’s nearly ten years since I wrote to Robert Vaughan, four years in November since he left us. This wasn’t one of the replies that I’d put top […]
Continue ReadingA Brief Bit on the Anus
I was in a properly foul mood yesterday – blame my ongoing PC problems – so I was in no spirits to be drawing cartoons based around clever conceits. Instead, I drew a picture of Donald Trump’s arsehole, complete with a ridiculous version of his already ridiculous signature. Perhaps that makes it sound less thought […]
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Hack Diary: Day 3721
Exhausted today. So exhausted, in fact, that I haven’t the energy to do anything other than dump a few words in this blog, which itself isn’t a bad thing. I’ve wanted to update it for a week, but I’ve barely had time. More about that later. Stayed up late last night (again), watching the orange […]
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