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Virus I am the living dead. Actually, I just have a stinking head cold. Oh well. It's been a while since I've had a cold, so it's like re-acquainting myself with an old friend....
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Giant Robotic Text Editors Of Destruction! Not bad. I would, of course, prefer to be a Transformer, but Calibretto's not bad... Which Colossal Death Robot Are You? Thanks to...
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This Week I 'Ave Been Mostly Drawing A Dystopian Post-Apocalyptic Future...Again More Oryx and Crake pictorials. I did these because Meg's sister Karen is doing a presentation...
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Election 2004 This year brings a chance to usurp the Thief-in-Chief, Overlord Bush II, but many people are confused as to which hero will rise up and save the world from the...
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Goose Hips Jink Chips I've gone and made a tit of myself over at Dan's blog. Or rather, I haven't, because frankly I'm in the right on this one, but I've been mean-spirited and...
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And Here I Was, Holding Out For A Nazgul. Or Tom Bombadil, At Least Congratulations! You're Faramir! Which Lord of the Rings character and personality problem are you? brought...
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This Week I 'Ave Been Mostly Drawing A Dystopian Post-Apocalyptic Future These will make more sense to you if you've read Oryx and Crake, but if you have read Oryx and Crake, I...
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Paper Well, even though it didn't count in the eyes of the law, Meg and I were married a year ago today. It's a sickening cliche to use in this situation, but time really does...
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So Good They Named It Twice... Right. So we left from Minneapolis bound for Rochester, and apart from flying on possibly the smallest plane ever, it was a fairly peasant...
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The Return Of The Shirt I'm back. It was a bizarre New Year's holiday. I'll let you all know about it soon. For now, I have to recover...
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Kev, we were wrong... Just a quickie, as we're off to New York for New Year tomorrow, but I would just like to report that this is an absolutely superb toy, and aside from one...
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Ho Ho Ho! Now I Have A Machine-Gun! Right, barring any interesting incidents, this is it until after Christmas. I hope that whatever it is you celebrate at this time of year,...
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Kings and Things Hello to Rad and Postman Alan. They've got almost-Christmas birthdays, which are famously an opportunity for stingy relatives to prove just how stingy they can...
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Happy Hanu-Car We just went out to pick up some last minute Christmas-type stuff, and we saw something very odd driving along on the other side of the street. Sadly, we don't...
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From The Cold Northern Wastelands He Came... Wotcha. They say that internet surfers have short memories, and that if you don't update your blog frequently enough, people will...
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Lately I'm right this minute listening to The Decline Of British Sea Power, which I really shouldn't like. This is the sort of thing Lamacq(say it with venom kids!) used to...
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The Perils Of Modernity Technically, the PS2 is for both me and Meg, as it was a wedding present. But the truth of the matter is that it was a consolation gift given to me by...
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Don't Worry About The Back Room Go and see this. Go on. Good. Spent most of today drawing. Prompted by yesterday's disaster, I plunged headlong into a day of sketching in order...
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Marvel-ous! Or, in fact, not. Well, this didn't turn out nearly as well as I'd hoped. I think I was trying to be too clever, and it didn't really work out. The penmanship is...
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Local Boy Makes Good Following Neil Gaiman's assertion a few weeks ago that no one from my home town of Uckfield can be trusted, here's a story about one of our finest...
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Official Business Liam has overcome the it's-a-bit-like-going-to-the-bank-and-nothing-like-how-you'd-expect-a-Visa-interview-at-an-Embassy-to-go thing, and is now ready to join...
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Well, blow me, this is brilliant. Wait for it to load up. Turn the sound on your computer on. Then click on the horses. I'm still smiling. Thanks to Phil Hall (who doesn't have...
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Another Day In Fortress Amerikkka The Fourth Reich has been keeping busy, I see. They've put some new educational reforms into action, and here's a story about what they're...
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"I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti..." I shouldn't laugh. I really shouldn't. But this is what's going to happen when you don't pass a law against...
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Best. Online. Strip. Ever. Actually, probably not, but if you're after some pure, surreal (and sometimes crude) visual humour go here. Enjoy. Sadly, I have no interesting...
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PCs go PC Oh dear god. Do I really live in a world, a country even, where people are this petty? Yeah, slavery was an awful thing, and there's nothing that Western civilisation...
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Class War Personally, I think university education should be free, if not for every student, then for those studying medicine or teaching. If necessary, the rest can get the...
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Popular Actor Rapes My Childhood He was inspired to take up acting because of three characters that he wanted to play. One was Thomas Magnum, one was Hannibal Smith, and the...
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What's In A Name? I drew this little chap yesterday, since he's been rattling around in my head for a number of days now (click on the image to see a larger version in a new...
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TATAKAE!!! So our Tone takes the world's most dangerous alcoholic to a pub for lunch? Brilliant plan Tony. Talking, as it were, of lunch and Emperor Bush, here's the most...