Something I’m following very closely is this in depth tutorial from the brilliant Tom Richmond of MAD magazine. People often ask me at parties and weddings where I learned to draw caricatures. While it’s been a lifelong interest I have to tell them I’m actually self-taught, as it’s not on any third level curriculum I’m … Read more
I had another x-ray today after my fall. I’m well on the mend but I had a look at the x-rays myself, and essentially the tip of the radius (the green line at the top) was broken off and the break goes right up to the joint. I’d have definitely fainted/screamed if I’d realised that … Read more
From last June on Double Vision.
I’d been meaning to look this up ever since I saw it on a documentary about ET. Listen to Speilberg’s line at the end.
Of course it would be remiss of me to plug a book without giving Ireland’s top nikkid-in-hotel-corridor caricaturist Niall O’Loughlin a mention for his Characters of the Turf. It features caricatures of some of the biggest names in Irish horseracing, and Niall’s watercolours are as beautifully rendered as they are funny. Each is accompanied by … Read more
Got my signed copy of Mister Amperduke by Bob Byrne in the post today. Thanks Bob. I’ve just read the first chapter, although I don’t think read is quite the right word. There is no narrative text in the whole book. Bob has diligently stuck to using a graphic lexicon, which means it’ll travel well! … Read more