Hundred Days - Day 4

In a coincidental move, here's day two of a miniature Lebowksifest.

Hundred Days - Day 3

100 Days to Make Me a Better Person - Days 1 and 2

Spearheaded by the wonderful comedian Josie Long, the Hundred Days project is a splendid exercise in personal discipline and random acts of will. The idea is, you pick one task to perform once every day for a hundred days from the 1st December. I've chosen the task of drawing a birthday post-it every day for either somebody I know or some other personality (probably found via IMDB or Wikipedia). I've started a day late, but here are my first two days of cards: the 1st December for Stephen Poliakoff and Woody Allen, two of my favourite writers-of-Jewish-extraction-whose-work-has-recently-gone-off-the-boil, and the second for Heather Wilmot, a fine writer, actor, comedian and good pal o' mine.

Mostly Posters

One for a Dramasoc Open Drama night, a small, no-budget production of Doctor Horrible's Singalong Blog which went down pretty well, evilly masterminded by the marvellous Stuart Hall. Prettily-penned review here: http://www.theyorker.co.uk/news/theatre/3839

Another for a show happening tonight, a big double-header of two of Comedy Society's most popular events:

Fly Poster

Here's another simple York Uni Comedy Society poster I threw together. I'm acting in a couple of sketches for Sketch Hopper so helping promote it wasn't exactly a selfless action. Oh, it's tonight. Better run!

Campus Livin'

The University of York Fresher's fair was a couple of weeks ago and I produced promotional material for two societies - Filmmaking Society:

Pretty simple concept, pretty simple poster, but it turned out nicely. More exciting is the Comedy Society's events flyer, since the Chair knew about my fixation with The Comics, hence:

They both went down pretty well, now I gotsta do a proper poster for that Sketch Show event you can see listed up there. Have your people call my people, we'll do lunch, ciao.

Scribbly Niven

Hey, ever wonder what it looks like when I draw David Niven while I'm in a giddy state of glee having just watched A Matter of Life and Death and drunk several glasses of wine? WELL

This image was in part brought to you by Justin Richards and Chris Lean of excellent comedy group The Wogans whose film night, Liberty Street Films, is soon to take its rightful place as the swingingest celebrity hangout in the history of London town. The film even came with a free activity sheet (shown in small part above)!

Let's Rave On

I love the Raveonettes and their trip-hoppy rock-n'-rolly B-movie-y stylings. I mean, just look at this music video!

Brilliant! New album's out soon, and there's a song on it called Boys Who Rape (Should All Be Destroyed). I'm excited!

WHISKAAAAAY!

Matt Berry is the modern generation's quirky lounge Jesus. I love him in particular for the sometimes-slightly-mixed-but-mostly-just-a-barrell-of-laughs sketch show Snuff Box, but I've drawn him here in his sharp-suited role as a shadowy boardroom executive in the film Moon. It's not a big part for him, and you certainly wouldn't recognise him if it weren't for his sonorous bass vocal work, but it'll always be an important role for me. Why? Because him being in Moon is what first alerted me to its existence, all those months ago. Finding that kooky indie sci-fi Brit flick listed on IMDB was, for me, like finding King Solomon's sweaty, geeky mines.

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