Sport 46

Hone Tuwhare and Bill Manhire, smoking fags and drinking beer in the Cook Hotel Dunedin, 1974. It's for the latest edition of Sport.


'It makes me a bit less scruffy than I imagine I was in the front bar of the Cook. But so pleased to be reminded that I once had hair', says Bill.

save our souls

Illustration for an upcoming magazine, edited by David Ziggy Greene.

brew

If you're in Leeds, keep your eyes peeled for a copy of Brew - a new little magazine for the city from the guys at Culture Vulture.

I've done a quick illustration for the first issue, to accompany a piece by my good mate Rose.

world toilet day

 

Shockingly, one in three women worldwide face incredible risks (such as rape, or disease) simply because they don't have access to a proper working toilet.

To support the work that Water Aid are doing on the issue, I drew this short comic strip. It accompanies the film they made for  'World Toilet Day' last November.

You can find a copy of my strip in the latest issue of Oasis - Water Aid's supporter magazine.

personages

 

For a few years, now, I've been writing articles about bande dessinée for Vingt Paris - an online, English speaking magazine about the French capital.

Most recently, I got to pick up my dip-pens for them, and draw the kind of people you'd meet in and around various arrondissements. Some of my favourites are above (which you can also check out on flickr). But why bother with that, when you can head over to the newly-revamped Vingt Paris site?

cyclist

A few months ago, I overheard an obnoxious, whiney cyclist complaining about her lot. So, when the guys at the Tooting Free Press asked me if I could draw something for their first issue, I drew her.

I did it back at the beginning of the year and I think it's clear from the style that I some of Searle's 'New Mayhew' drawings kicking about. It certainly looks a lot more considered and 'traditional' than the stuff I've been doing in the last month or two. Still quite like it, though.

If you want to find out what she was complaining about, then you'll need to get hold of a copy of the paper.

 

pencilling...

cherries

This was for an article on Cherry Red records, from the now defunct Plan B magazine.

reckids

For Plan B.

plan b

There's a picture of mine in the latest issue of Plan B.

They printed it bigger than I expected, and now I wish I'd spent more time adding details (not that it's their fault; I was on a 'simplicity' kick at the time and I feel I over - or is that 'under'? -did it). But ho-hum ... another something to add to my 'do better next time' list.

If you can't make it out from the photo, the pic's over on my flickr account, too.