Everyone Loves a Bit of Bully

I've been doing some roughs for a German book I'm illustrating. I'm keen on this character, the Spanish bull, but I'm not sure I'll be allowed to keep the daggers in him - it's supposed to be for children. We'll see how it pans out.

Talking of things for kids, I'm off to the BBC tomorrow to show them my madcap ideas. I hope they like what I'm all about.

Dead Bunny

It's a bunny, but yes, I know, it's still dead. When I was tiny I had a pet rabbit. It was the worst creature in the world, so vicious, I could never touch it. My dad had to take it out with protective gloves to protect from scratches and bites whenever it was removed from it's hutch. It was such an aggressive beast. We were so glad when we came down one morning to find it dead - Its reign of terror was finally over.

Another Cat Ghost

Well, I promise, this will be it regarding my unhealthy obsession with feline cruelty and death for the time being. I'm sticking all that stuff on my kitten parasites blog - one day I'll get a real publisher for it. But just on the million to one chance a fantastic publisher reads this, I did shift 1000 of them myself, more or less in a couple of years. This was just me in my own time too, with no distribution network. I tell you, it'll be a license to print money.

Nine Lives

If you buried a dead cat, would it have nine little ghosts? Of course it would. They'd probably just be tiny, floaty, spectral heads too. I'd love to see a feline phantom like that.

Scary Tail Kittens

Let's continue with the two headed kittens theme. My friend, the amazing sculptress Caitlin carved them up from the woefully inadequate turn-around sheet I gave her. Thankfully, she knows how my tiny mind works and came up with the goods, and here they are. I'd like to do more with - but I'm not sure what. Surely there's a market for double headed cat toys.

Mail Me Art

There's a cool show opening up in London, featuring all the usual suspects, I believe I'm one of them, on Friday. It's called 'Mail Me Art' and it's Darren Di Lieto's collection of envelopes sent to him by all your favourite artists. But the twist is, they've all doodled all over them as they try to bamboozle Royal Mail. You can gaze in awe at the envelopes that found their mark at the Red Gate Gallery in London from tomorrow. There's an accompanying book in the works too.

Have a look at the Mail Me Art Site here.

Control... and lack of

I like drawing cats - although I don't much care for them in real life, like any sane person and I like drawing things with two heads. Other than that I can't justify this at all.