Wild Cat
Posted: May 11th, 2013 | Author: dave | Filed under: pics | Tags: cats, illustration | No Comments »


I suppose I could have titled this picture “bear-faced cheek”. Oh well, another missed opportunity. Still, nice to be drawing something less cartoony, for a change.
Other prospective titles: Bespectacled bear. Code-iak. Does a bear IT in the wo… Phew, bad bad puns. Poor koality.

There is a shop near our house which bills itself as selling “urban cuisine”. I can’t help thinking what that would really entail – pigeon pie? Rat pasties, fox sausages and cockroach kebabs?

A Planet of the Apes-themed wedding invitation. I look forward to monopolising Google Images search results with this, in the same way I’ve sewn up “Björk eating puffins”.
Perhaps I should try illustrating Googlewhacks, now that everybody’s forgotten what those are…
that I now have an IMDB entry, thanks to a tiny amount of work I did for the inimitable Joel Veitch‘s Mister Wormsley’s Christmas. Immortality beckons…
*narrows eyes*
“You heard me – I said, ‘swim!’”

Illustrating the pirate’s eternal dilemma – do you listen to the good parrot on one shoulder or the bad one on the other?

dialogue credit: Johnny Armstrong
I can’t help but feel that a little ‘inspirational’ quote and this little lion-man might have some limited level of viral appeal. Perhaps I’ll return to this post…

“nothing succeeds like soup seals”. So that’s, basically, the plan.





Some comic-book illustration stuff I did for a Smash Hits Lady Gaga special revival a year or so back – thought it’d be nice for it to live somewhere online. That was a fun four days!