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All Work and No Play…

…Makes John a Dull Boy. This last week has been a week of overtime and malicious deadlines lurking in wait (like the ones that live under the basement stairs when you’re a kid, with tentacles). Between camping out at the scan shop and wearing down my brushes....

Fantasy, Bordering on Reality

Or Where Truth is Hopefully At Least As Entertaining As Fiction… This must be a standard film director’s phrase: “That was great! Perfect, movement, lights, everything. Excellent! Can you do it again? Oh, and don’t look at the camera this time.” Being part of a...

Skin Deep

Or Where I Finally Make a Lasting Impression… It’s not every day that somebody makes a decision to tattoo a piece of artwork they like on themselves, or at least I don’t imagine so. My work seems rather too narrative to work as tattoos; I don’t draw enough roses,...

To Make a Short Story Long

Or All About Drawers and Dreams… Once upon a time, I had the ambition of actually writing (and while building castles in the air, of actually getting someone else to illustrate) a children’s story, the initial idea growing out of a portion of a picture I had done for...