a cartoon is worth a thousand sensations

HAPPY 2009 EVERYONE!

First of all, thank you for all your comments last year: I hope you can imagine how interesting and inspiring I found them. I’d be very grateful if you kept the feedback and comments coming, to help me on my long journey as I work out how to do this.

This year I am determined to make this blogging thing work for me, and not fall apart after six months. This means that I’m going to have to lower my already low standards somewhat. I am going to try and submit three types of post: 1) cartoons, b) doodles, c) reviews of some of the many amazing cartoons and graphic novels I have read in the last year.

I am still trying to follow the creativity rule, “quantity rather than quality,” so my intention is to post doodles and “graphic experiments” if I haven’t been able to come up with a cartoon. Below is an example of one of these, inspired by a cartoon from the comic “Whizzer and Chips” I read when I was little: “The Numskulls,” little people who live in your head and guide your every movement and decision. My version, which shows the three numskulls which I feel are dominating me at the moment, I am proud of because it was pure improvisation: I didn’t plan it or pencil it in beforehand and painted it directly in ink. I realise that you would never be able to tell that most of my cartoons are normally planned, pencilled, then inked.

original numskulls

numskulls