BREAKFAST AT UNIT K

This is another memorable moment from Unit K. I was actually going to tell my friend Gaëlle that I had finally plucked up the courage to sign up for a dating site called the Pink Sofa. (Which turned out to be a very good idea as I ended up meeting my partner Jacqui..) But true to form, as I told her that I had done something drastic, Gaëlle came back with a quick (and probably equally drastic) suggestion.

This is also the comic that is being talked about in the previous comic here on my blog.

FOR GAËLLE

This is a comic i made of a conversation between me and my friend and former housemate Gaelle. She very sadly passed away recently, and this is one of those little funny and odd little conversations that I will always remember her by.

MY OLD DESK

I spent most of my time in school drawing doodles and little people on pretty much everything that happened to be in front of me. My math books were full of drawings and not much math. And they kept creeping up over my desk as well. I tend to try and restrain myself these days from drawing on furniture, but I found this slightly blurred photo of my desk from my previous house, which I obviously could not keep my self from doodling on. I just like how it becomes part of the surface and the randomness of the drawings. They might not be great illustrations but they are little comments on that moment in time. I particularly like the woman with the skirt that has an airplane printed on it. There are little parachuters jumping from the airplane-skirt.

You can't really read the writing but one of the little creatures says; 'It all went a bit wrong. Time for bed Children' which sums up the whole drawing really.

Desk Squiggles

MY LITTLE PONY

As we are on the subject of colour illustrations, here is another one. It was a birthday present to my then housemate Alice, who used to have long pink hair and looks like a little fairy-doll. She also collects replica miniature tanks. She is a really talented musician and also a great model for costumes. The drawing was too big for my scanner so this is photo of a section of the image.

The World Will be Safe Again

THE PHONE CALL

I find real conversations and events really interesting. Sometimes the mundane and everyday boring stuff is more exciting to draw a little comic from than an elaborate made up story. They don't always have to have a punch line or even an end.

I kept getting these strange phone calls, not like people selling stuff or asking me to take part in a survey, but from this guy who had the wrong number but refused to believe me. He kept calling insisting to speak to his friend and started getting almost angry when I was still just me the tenth time he called. I bet his friend had given him the wrong number just so he would stop calling him. This is one of the conversations, word for word.