The Laughing Girl

(2B pencil on a 139mm x 87mm postcard)

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A pop-art style piece depicting a single frame from a non-existent comic-book. When you take a frame from a comic-book and show it on its own, it can totally change the context of the characters and situations they depict. A frame from one which doesn't exist doesn't even allow you reference to the original and almost asks you to think of possible scenarios for it.

 

On it's own, it takes on a more symbolic from. Whether it's the acquisition of great power, wealth or knowledge by those too inexperienced to handle it, or an image that's a metaphor for the onset of adolescence, it can have different meanings whichever way you look at it.

 

Or it could simply be a fantasy image of a little girl that's suddenly discovered amazing magical powers.

Lucid Trigger

(HB pencil on a 139mm x 89mm postcard)

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It wasn't the blatant fact that she was sat naked in a waiting room next to an invisible man who wore a harlequin hat, bow tie and kinky cod-piece to get himself noticed. Or that there was a hideous, bug-eyed, tentacled monster making sexual advances on her.

No, all this seemed quite normal in her mind.

The point that finally made her realise she was dreaming was that the dragon-headed man had the nerve to be smoking in a no smoking area and she just couldn't accept it.

I mean, she thought, how fucking dare he?!

Hentai 4 Food

(Black fineliner on 125mm x 75mm notecard)

In the 1980s and 90s, when it broke into the west, manga and animé had a cool factor that nothing else had. It was edgy, underground and subversive. If you read manga, watched animé, or you were a manga artist, you were part of a very select group.

But, those shining gems we were first given from the east were quickly submerged by a tsunami of low-budget shite. Both manga and animé soon became a shameful cliché of itself, further compounded by the flood of hentai which inevitably followed.

Now, whenever the words "manga" and "animé" are mentioned, they're associated with cheesy animation or sex, because that's all they're really worth now. A terrible fall from grace for what was once the coolest kid on the block. It's everywhere and nowhere, and worth nothing.

Even though I used to love drawing manga, this crude, half-arsed example here will be the last manga image I ever draw. Perhaps, one day, it can somehow regain part of that lost credibility, but until then it's nothing more than an unclean dirty whore, an embarrassment to view and use, very much like a sign written in comic-sans.

Prophecy 3 : THE RISE OF THE TECHZED

(2B pencil on a 140mm x 88mm postcard)

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Shuffling here and there, but going nowhere. Or just standing and staring at blank cyber-optic screens that once buzzed with their favourite banality. Their hands twitching and contorting on virtual keypads, typing nothing but gibberish.

They are the Techzeds (tech-zombies) and they're on their way.

First there's a few, then hundreds, then thousands. Victims of an imbalance which devours their minds. The result of high technology dumbed-down too far for the masses to comprehend any of it, or any of the dangers it will bring.

The techzed will become utterly withdrawn from friends, family, and the world around them. All higher brain functions gone as they exist on automatic. The world itself nothing more than an ethereal plane of faceless shadows and lost memories. They will be dead, but the devices which they simply couldn't live without will, ironically, be the only things keeping them alive. Some might say it would be a blessing to switch them off and so end what's left of their miserable lives, but many will be left in their mindless electronic purgatory. A disturbing warning to all who see them.

"Look at them. Isn't it awful? I'll never be like that."

Merry Christmas 2014 - The Santa Clause

(HB pencil on A6 card)

I decided to make this into a Christmas card and used photoshopped text on the front and inside. Not something I normally do, but I have to admit that I was actually pleased with how crudely letterpress they looked, although that might have more to do with the crappy printer I have and the cheap printer ink that I use. So if you've received one of these cards from someone, then I hope you liked it and the following seasonal tale contained within....

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Prophecy 02 : THE EPIPHANY OF MAN



(black biro on 125mm x 75mm notecard)

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The epiphany of man will be when the last person finally decides to let go of their teddy bear, leaving it to fall, torn and ragged, back into the shadows of superstition from where it was born. A fool's folly, created out of ignorance and fear, will be uncreated under the burning light of knowledge and reason.

 

Then, and only then, will there dawn the golden age of mankind. When humanity finally arms itself with it's true, unshakeable faith. That it is they, and they alone, who are the true gods of their own destiny.

No Parole

(HB pencil on 140mm x 88mm postcard)

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"He couldn't quite put his finger on it, but there was something telling him his appeal had not gone at all well."

 

An artwork which shows complete resignation to an inevitable fate and, no matter what you do, there's just no avoiding it.

 

The Joker : Punch & Judy

(black biro on a 140mm x 88mm postcard)

 

The disturbing obsession that the Joker has for Batman always seems to end with him being hurt, one way or another. But, being so criminally insane as he is, he'll always try again and again, because that's the way he does it.



Nude By Numbers

(fineliner on a 139mm x 87mm postcard)

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It's not easy trying to find a nude paint-by-numbers set, especially one happily stroking her pussy! They tend to be the "chocolate-box" style image, which are never fun to paint, but at least they got more people painting and introduced many to art.

 

It's used here to make the viewer think more about colour, even though there's none present, not even a swatch to match the numbers with. It tries to beg the question: "What colour is her skin?" And when that happens, it gives the subject something of an enigmatic quality.

 

But many who see it will have already made their own assumptions as to her colour, for whatever reason that might be. They may even assume it so much that they'll go so far as to disregard it completely and ask: "What colour is the cat?"



Prophecy 01 : VERECIDE

(blue biro on a 125mm x 75mm post-it note)

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With the introduction of total mind immersion virtual reality will come a secondary option for the suicidal. Rather than killing themselves, they may choose to commit "verecide" (or vericide). A word that simply means to kill reality. And in doing so, they'll be able to exchange their miserable lives in the real world in favour of their own personal heaven in a safe, booby-trapped, virtual one.