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The Alien Moon arrives

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Obviously, it’s a tremendously exciting day. I went to the Walker offices and picked up a copy of the brand new yeti book. It’s looking awesome, I’m so excited. And it has a black cover!

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Panda! Go Panda! Go Panda!

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Panda! Go Panda! is massive with the little one in our house (and the big ones, actually). If you’ve not seen it, it’s one of the first things Miyazaki and Takahata of Studio Ghibli did together.

It’s bonkers and quite wonderful in equal measures, and has very nice bamboo.

Any way, because we like it, I painted the big Panda as a present for my niece. I also then had to paint one for my own daughter. And so, we have multiple Pandas. Here they are…

Old Fossils Retirement Home

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I was asked to do something with the wonderful Gary Northfield for our local Crystal Palace magazine, called the Transmitter. Of course, we couldn’t say ‘no’, as we love them so!

So… taking the Palace’s dinosaur pedigree, and Gary’s skill at drawing them, we came up with the Old Fossils Retirement Home comic. Here’s the first panel, and to read the rest you’ll have to get yourselves down to South London in about a month’s time and find a copy. The Bookseller Crow independent bookshop always has them on display!

click image to see it bigger!

Something I’ve been working on…

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I’ve been busy all week drawing pictures for a secret project. I’ve been desperate to put some of them online as they’ve turned out better than I’d hoped, but, you know, I’m trying to keep it secret.

So, I’ve decided to post this mysterious image, just to scratch an itch.