Dotty stuff

Just a 'farewell to winter' aimless thought...

Sunday Strips

Another dose of getting stoned on ancient IT...

Border Farce?

After an initial chest-thumping fearful scenario, the Border Force (?) first production looked a lot like a Mac Sennett comedy ... certainly no-one wants to talk about it in terms of responsibility.

This was completed yesterday, but my internet connection was very flakey for most of the day... so I decided to wait until it was restored to some operational stability. That meant this morning.

BTW... the small print on the BF leader's jacket reads AJAX COSTUME HIRE.

Polls or Leaks?

In the Sewer?

Animalia c.1980s

On a wet, slow (cartoonable) news day, here's a collage of animal practice doodles saved off the desk-top (a wooden drawing board one... remember, this was the 1980s) because I happened to like the look of them at the time.

Some were character studies for possible future use in comic-strips or similar. I don't think any of these ever 'made the cut' in subsequent decades.

Such is life.

Of arts

Just a fleeting figment...

Unrequited love?

Pauline Hanson has announced that her preferred replacement Prime Minister would be Scott Morrison.

Mr, Morrison is probably now in hiding to avoid the 'Kiss of Death' connotation?

Tax reform?

Tax CUTS?! What happened to the much vaunted budget emergency?

Sunday Strips

More of the neolithic IT nonsense.

You be the Judge

All too often it's not WHAT you're doing that shapes opinion... it's what you are PERCEIVED to be doing.

Funds?

Finally broke a 'dry' patch in cartoon production this afternoon. Since I gave up the 'cartoon a day' imperative at the end of 2014, collusion between life circumstances and sheer mental laziness have focussed my attention away from seemingly trivial creative undertakings like cartooning. Hence, the number of new original posts have gradually declined to the point where I haven't completed any worthwhile scribbles since August 14th!

Sorry for that folks. Will try to do better as the freezing weather abates to make way for spring... and new beginnings perhaps?

Sunday Strips

Here's the 1995 Rarebits trifecta for this week.

'Bees' are back!?

Spawned by the elation of seeing literally hundreds of real bees servicing a newly blossoming crab-apple tree in our driveway... and the simultaneous depressing news that MPs are trooping back to Canberra to resume harvesting of our funds after their prolonged winter hibernation.

O.H.&S. all at sea?

Did this yesterday... but due to a brain-fade last evening... simply forgot to post it.

I'm putting it down to old age.

Sunday Strips

Ep.2 of the 'adult' Rarebits saga first published during 1995.

Smoke signal

The silliness continues... probably due to the longish period of cold days we have been enduring lately?

Hoarse

Damned silly, but this came to me as I was having a shave this morning.

Yobbo (rough)

This morning I was about to bin a first rough I had scribbled for an 'anti-booing' 'toon I did last Saturday. It was a markers on scrap-paper piece that pleased me as a first draft but was set aside because, just before scanning, I noticed I had depicted the rowdy with a beverage can in his hand.
'On the fly' I recalled that taking packaged grog into AFL venues had been banned quite a few years ago. Sooo, that early in the process, I decided to redraw the character instead of cutting and pasting a new hand holding a glass or plastic cup of booze.

Now, I wish I HAD corrected the original sketch. As often happens in retrospect, the intuitive first realization of a thought appears to be better than any over-worked substitute.

Ho-Hum...    

'Bye Bron.

The speaker finally gains approbation from the people.

Sunday Strips

As promised, the spotlight returns to the 'grown-up' version of Rarebits in 1995... which proved to be its last year of publication because, the newspaper itself was either terminated or sold to to a different publisher (can't remember which).

Whatever, the strip had run for a decade after being commissioned by the editor of Pacific Computer Weekly (one of the many mastheads in the stable of Isaacson Publishing for whom I was already cartooning) with only a week or so of advanced notice, Initially, I simply did random strips about (then) modern computing with no standard characters or story line. However 'swotting up' on I.T. history I stumbled over the proposition that Stonehenge could've been the first ever example of a man-made computing device so I took that on board and it just grew into a reasonably self-sustaining story. By the time PCW folded I had 'milked' just about as much as I could from the concept of ancient times in modern idiom, so wasn't too upset when the strip came to an end.

The Red-nosed BOOby

Much in the news of late... the common Red-nosed Booby can be seen in numbers where-ever large masses of people gather to watch football matches whilst consuming copious amounts of fast food and beer.

Practically in-articiulate,,, this sub-species of the booby genus can still be readily identified by its constant and seemingly mind-less BOO! BOO! BOO! call.