Keith. Just a Regular Guy. Pages 1 - 4

This is an idea I had a few months ago. I drew the first few pages and these are they. I haven't really done much else to it, and I'm not exactly sure where it's going, but I'm looking forward to having time to finish (or at least continue) it.

Link of the Day: Twitter. I have succumbed.

Sketchbook: Brothel/Bead Head/Detached

Seeing as I was utterly rubbish and uploaded nothing last weekend, with no excuse whatsoever other than "I couldn't be bothered", this week I'm releasing a triple A side.

And here they are:

Links of the Day (three cartoons, three links):

An Amazing, Amazing World, Wasted on Crappy Idiots (thanks to Clare via Facebook)

KITTENS! (thanks to Elliot via the Joinee forum)

Obama's Elf (thanks to Heulwen via the Joinee forum)

Sketchbook: Post...

A double issue this week, a day or two early. I'm going to try and get to Exeter before the snow does tomorrow for my brother's wedding this weekend, so I'm going with a quick Sketchbook job again (I do have a Movie They Never Made planned...)

Both of these I sketched along the same theme on the way home on the Northern Line yesterday evening.

Link of the Day: Alternative Press Fair - I went to this on Sunday and was overwhelmed by the number of different cool zines and comics that were on display. I had to do at least two laps of the club before I could bring myself to touch anything. The production quality of the vast majority of the comics was achingly good. Sadly, I was a bit too tired on this particular occasion to stick around for the open mic evening, but I shall endeavour to next time around (whenever that is).

It's held in St Aloysius Social Centre near Euston but, like I say, I don't really know how often. I hope it's not too long. You can join the Facebook group to stay up to date.

[Edit] Should have just clicked my own link - they're about every six months.

Another Interlude to Proceedings...

A couple of years ago I made these snowmen when the school I worked in was closed because of the weather.

It happened again today (different school though), so I donned my polar buff and arctic jacket, armed myself with a broken spatula and my house keys, and set off for Waterlow Park in Highgate.

And found it locked.

But I also found people climbing the wall. Several people told me that the park had earlier been open but then closed on Health & Safety grounds (creating the marvellous H&S risk that is people climbing over walls), but I later found out from The Man From Arusha that the man had never come to unlock it in the first place, because he couldn't get there.

And so after lifting a couple of small boys over into the park, I was able to set about starting this year's creation. I had been thinking of several snowmen in a ten-pin bowling themed massacre, but realised very quickly how much work that would involve, and decided against it.

My friend Amy suggested that since it is Groundhog today I should either do a ground hog, or Andie MacDowell's face. Andie McDowell's face was quickly ruled out on the grounds that I don't know how to airbrush a snow sculpture, and I'm not entirely familiar with the anatomy of a groundhog.

So I did this beaver instead:

And I was quite please with the result. It was originally going to be wearing a top hat, but I couldn't do the brim, so it ended up with a fez instead. And a frock coat.

Passers-by seemed contradictory as to whether it is a boy or a girl, but I'm fairly sure it's a girl. One person asked me if I snowsculpt for a living, which pleased me, although by no means could I be bothered to get it perfect - it took me two hours as it was, and I was knackered by the end of it. I'm still slightly annoyed about the face though. I tried so hard to use clean snow but I obviously cocked up somewhere.

All I need to do now is some work. And make soup.

The full photo set: Clicky