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  • 16 Sep 2023

    My Books

    Not Geek, Ideas

  • 10 Mar 2010

    Scene and Herd archive

    Continuing the webcomic theme from yesterday, I finally uploaded the archive of strips from the webcomic I used to do in 2003.

    It actually started off as a cartoon on flyers advertising Baby Tiger gigs before developing into music reviews for a while before ending up in the final version.

    Start at the far end of the cartoon department, third floor.

    Cartoons, Not Geek

  • 9 Mar 2010

    Rules: The Comic

    I found some old sketches at the weekend and decided that I shouldn't just leave them in a drawer doing nothing.

    I, therefore, present to you:

    The Rules

    It's kind of a web comic but it only has 19 issues, no plot and won't be continuing.

    Cartoons, Not Geek

  • 8 Mar 2010

    The Shadow Government and a Hyperbagel

    I listen to a bunch of podcasts. I watch the Daily Show and the Colbert Report. I listen to a lot of They Might Be Giants. When you combine this with the audiobooks I listen to, the shows I go to and the paper books I read, you start to spot a pattern. A slightly sinister pattern...

    • The Illiternati

    This originally started as a connectivity diagram of American Literary Non-fictionists but after I'd finished I realised it's not entirely American, it's not entirely non-fictionists. It's not entirely comedy and not entirely literary. After showing it to a friend though, he immediately suggested 'The New Illuminati' or possibly the Literary Illuminati. Maybe just the Illiternati. Any way round you have it, John Hodgman appears to be as some kind of Literpope in the middle of a literspiracy.

    From what I can figure, I need to write some world economics exposé with Planet Money, discuss the software I used to analyse the markets with This Week in Tech and appear onstage at The Moth to tell the audience how the experience changed my life then I can join the dots on the diagram and reveal the secret Iliternati symbol. I think it'll be somewhere between the CND logo and a hyperbagel.

    Not Geek, Design

  • 4 Mar 2010

    Some kind of monster

    Some kind of monster

    I've been trying to make myself sketch a lot more recently. This was mostly prompted by my decision to start up The Angry Robot Zombie Factory as an actual company doing web development and illustration.

    I've been keeping an almost daily sketch blog over on tumblr and promoting any good pieces over onto my actual illustration portfolio. At some point, I'll bring all these different sites and things together. Until then, here's a sketch of a few things from the last couple of weeks.

    Cartoons, Not Geek

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