thingsinjars

  • 9 Apr 2008

    SpreadShop

    SpreadShop

    If you wake up every morning and think, "My t-shirts are so dull, I wish I had interesting clothes...", you need to have a look at my online shop.


    Cartoons

  • 25 Feb 2013

    Unheroes

    While tidying up my dropbox, I found a few old 'Unhero' sketches:

    • Cheese Boy
    • Pizza Guy
    • VHS and Beta Boy
    • Johnny Longfinger
    • The Leaf
    • Gingerbreadman

    Also, a master uncriminal:

    • The Chemist

    And the original Angry Robot Zombie:

    • Angry Robot Zombie

    Cartoons, Not Geek

  • 28 Jan 2013

    Angler Fish

    Angler Fish

    Quick sketch of an Angler Fish I drew last year.

    Not Geek, Cartoons

  • 27 Oct 2012

    Explanating Experiment Follow-up

    A year ago, I started a little experiment (and not one of my usual web experiments).

    I decided to give away my book, Explanating, for free. The website has links to download the book without charge and also links through to Amazon and Lulu. I asked people to download the free one then, if they enjoyed it, they could come back and buy it.

    Twelve months later, I now have the answer.

    • Free: 315
    • Amazon: 2
    • Lulu: 0

    Erm. Yeah. Not quite as successful as I would have liked. Still, the point was to measure the 'conversion rate'. Admittedly, it's a small sample size but it would appear to be about 0.6%. At this rate, I only need another 97,465,886 people to download the free one and I'll have made £1,000,000! Sweet!

    Design, Cartoons, Not Geek

  • 20 Jan 2011

    My name is

    My name is

    I've been using the name thingsinjars along with my standard avatar for so long, I can't change them to my own name and photo as nobody would recognise me any more.

    For that reason, I wear this when I actually meet people in real life.

    Cartoons

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Simon Madine (thingsinjars)

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Hi, I’m Simon Madine and I make music, write books and code.

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