Grim Lairy Tales

The Blob Programme

Glam Elephant

A little something (or rather big something), sort of inspired by the animal ballet ("Dance of the Hours") in Fantasia. Also - 50th post!

Happy Easter!

Ballet Casting Error

Not everybody's got a laughing place...

Fee-fi-fo-fum, I smell the blood of an Athenian...

Around a week ago, I drew a picture of the Cyclops from Homer's Odyssey. I posted it on here, but chances are that I'm the only one who even saw it live. I really didn't like what I'd drawn, so I decided to scrap the post to avoid showing the world. Last night, I tackled the Cyclops again, this time having in mind the work of artists from the Golden Age of Hollywood Animation, in particular Ward Kimball, the Disney animator who drew some of the broader, looser characters in some of the classic Disney feature films, such as Jiminy Cricket, Bacchus in Fantasia's "Pastoral Symphony", the Mad Hatter and March Hare, the crows in Dumbo and Cinderella's mice friends.

Although I think that my cyclops is a bit too broad fit perfectly into an apt illustration of Homer's epic, I have to say that I prefer this attempt compared to the first attempt last week.

Mosko-Cat

Icarus the Dog

Ballet

Corporate Wolves

"Capitalism has an intense, rich flavour."

  -Wolfgang P. Loupine, 2012                  

Jimmy, or The Façade

The Chronicles of Narnia: An alternative illustration

What's this? Another new post? It just so happens that I've knocked two guddans out today, so here's an illustration to C.S. Lewis' fantasy classic The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, albeit an alternative illustration...

Sunday afternoon with the Bourgeois Family

The Pied Piper of Hamelin comes to the UK

I don't really delve into political topics that much, but with the current state of Britain at the moment, I couldn't help myself. My condolences go to the poor people affected by the unsettling behaviours, which are, at least in part, a product of an equally condemnable widening social division and alienation that many of us have blissfully ignored.

Mickey? Is that you?

Not the greatest drawing I've ever done in my life, but a slight bit of humour.

Happy Thursday to You...

Happy Thursday to You, as a naive French school child once sang thinking he was going to pass his English test for singing an English song correctly. Either way, I'm back after one of my ridiculously long pauses.

This is a bizarre, rather shoddy, and ultimately twisted sketch with some pencils I did on a train to Saintes (a French town around an hour or so north of Bordeaux, famous for its various numerous Roman ruins, including a stunning amphitheatre), depicting somewhat inappropriate and cruel minded gift-card designs. I swear that they're all in jest, and that I would never have enough negative energy to send out such deranged gift cards out. If you really pissed me off, you simply wouldn't even get a card in the first place!

The Loving Mother

Have you ever been on a bus or a train, or any public space for that matter, only to be stuck next to an odious parent coarsely addressing his/her screaming children (often given diabolical names such as Dwayne, Britney, or perhaps even Armani?)? Does the parent annoy you immensely, making you question whether or not the parent actually loves the children? Well, I have on many an occasion, and one time, I had just had enough and opted to satirise such folk. I mentioned the drawing I did in one of my first posts, and now you finally get a chance to see it. The obnoxious mother's appearance was mainly based on images of such parents passing in my mind, as well as taking some inspiration from the Queen of Hearts as portrayed in Walt Disney's Alice in Wonderland. Enjoy!

A Day in the Life of a Student at a University of a Provincial British City

Another post? So soon? Sure is! This was done back in May with my first set of Faber Castell PITT pens, just after I had finished my final year of my BA degree. But by the end of it all, I had basically had enough of being an undergraduate. Now, I shall first of all like to mention that I was content with the academic side of university and have been interested in doing some sort of postgraduate course, but I had essentially become tired of being stuck in the transitional and cliquey lifestyle of an undergraduate, ultimately a conformist existence no matter how much "alternative" stuff anyone was into. I'd spent much of the past few months in the library, from time to time finding amusement and/or displeasure in overhearing the immature whining and boastings of a great deal of arrogant and boisterous "fauxhemian" students, all in the library from the looks of things just for a coffee and a cake than to actually do any serious work.

This particular cartoon sums up a lot of the opinions I had by that stage of being a student. The dialogue was based on a conversation that a friend overheard on a bus and posted on a "post silly things u overhear" Facebook groups. Not that it should really bother most people stumbling across this blog, but the cartoon has a bit of coarse language and a few drug references, all ultimately done in good humour.

Yikes! It's the Fish Wife!

This is another one that I did quite a while ago, when I still had access to a scanner. I understand that some could interpret this image as misogynistic, but it's meant nothing more than a bit of daft fun. I recently heard the term "fishwife"; it originally meant a woman who sold fish at markets, but ultimately became a derogatory term for any coarse, shrewish woman of low background. When I heard the term, however, I couldn't help but think of an image similar to this, a sort of female version of the Creature from the Black Lagoon.

In fact, the whole image sums up my dislike of fish. It's not a fear, it's just that I find a lot of specific types to be quite ugly. Thus, the perfect inspiration for a creation apt for a horror/sci-fi B-movie, and a perfect thing to display in the run-up to Halloween!