British Comic Art at the Tate

I especially liked Donald Parsnip’s Daily Journal newstand - what a good idea - a small daily - front page news.

snaf

I’ve recently been showing prints of my austerity series of drawings. I want these drawings to be things that people will want to possess and own, yet make people think and question, even stir up trouble - in a positive way. Ideally I want them to be seen and owned by different sides of the [...]

2 flies

forgot to post this last week:

political hairdresser - body scanners

New political cartoonist comic - “cheap cuts”

Anti-war art

Emily Prince’s drawings of 5,218 US war dead.

Steve McQueen’s Queen and Country project, in which he created postage stamp sheets of 155 British soldiers killed in Iraq. He continues to campaign for the stamps to be issued.

The Gite Set

I made this drawing “The Gite Set” - over the last couple of days:
It explores the recent phenomenon of English people emigrating to France and running gites. It studies the subject from a number of angles - such as reasons why people want to do this, how dreams can be undone, socio-economic factors driving this, and [...]