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This time I attempted to re-create the Disaster Girl meme in the illustration style of some of the early 1960s Penguin covers.

After turning the Potato/MonkeyJesus meme into a stained-glass window, I adapted another meme, this time the Distracted Boyfriend, which...

If you have seen my woodcuts/linocuts, and Scarfolk for that matter, you'll realise that, whether 1970s or 1670s, I'm obsessed with...

I've no idea why I did these. I just liked the idea of playing with a minimal number of pixels. Do you recognise all the horror/monster...

On a recent trip to Valais in Switzerland, I took a few hundred photographs. Most are middling, but I was pleased with the composition,...

I became slightly obsessed with the linocut template I created and, as I'm currently trying to finish my novel about a Swiss architect, I...

For a long time, I've wanted to be able to simulate linocuts in software. Not simply to re-create the look, but also to create an...

I was recently commissioned by Bern University in Switzerland to design a poster for the annual EAIE Conference (European Association for...

So many drawings and illustrations are never completed. I either lose interest in them or they simply don't work the way I want them to....

Here's a Roy Lichtenstein-ish illustration. It's the view from my office desk, out into the hallway on to the bathroom beyond. It started...

I created this line drawing several years ago but did nothing with it, so I thought I'd use it to test out Affinity Designer and Affinity...

Having recently completed another contract using Affinity Publisher (I'll post the graphic here when the time is right), I decided to...

I wrote an article called 'Santa Claus is Coming to Town' about pre-Christian winter traditions in the Bavarian Alps. You wouldn't want...

I'm taking part in Darkness in the Fields, a day of folk horror writing workshops, interviews and talks on Sat, March 11. I will talking...

My recent promo badge designs for music artist Concretism. The designs echo the covers of his albums, which I also designed.

I wrote and illustrated an article about British public information films of the 1970s, and it's featured in the latest issue of The...

Scarfolk is featuring in the The Horror Show!, "a landmark exhibition that invites visitors to journey to the underbelly of Britain’s...

Quick sketches of the wasteland behind the house where I was born in the old industrial NW of England.

A quick sketch done in the time it took to listen to two BBC Radio 4 programmes, so just under an hour.