Wound

An accidental premonition.

Merry Christmas up a tree

Here is a Christmas tree made out of the top of a bigger tree. Monkeys are involved.
I rest my case.

Posse

Shrewed

Pecker

Diagramatis Personae no.1

John Venn 1834-1923

A weigh day

Prints of Wiles

This portrait of Beethoven, called ‘Ode to Joy’, together with 29 other old drawings from when Non-Stick Plans was an unrelenting hive of honey-making activity, are now available as prints on Mysoti.com. Somebody might like them.

Bread and buttons

I have some badges, buttons, pins, whatever they’re called, on Lollypins.com – home of “the sweetest 1 inch / 25mm pins, buttons, and badges on the net”. Not having tasted any I can’t vouch for that. Here’s the link: Here.

Post-depressionism

Footpad's weapon

I was trying to make a crown out of a cat's paw but it ended up looking like knuckledusters. It's very difficult sometimes, you know.

Submurine

Just what is it about cats and water?

The best-laid schemes...

...o’ mice an’ men / Gang aft agley.
- Robert Burns - ‘To a Mouse’

Perhaps six months is a little excessive as a gap between blog posts. I was hit by an idea drought and thought that was it. Getting ready to throw myself off a bridge in despair, my idiot brain seems to have at last stirred, hopefully not too briefly, into action and saved me a trip to San Francisco.

Beggar

Stradivirus

Violinly ill.

Imhopet

(Imhotep)

Cat got your pencil?

It’s good to be busy
but I've been neglecting
my blog duties and this
is my first post of 2011.
Sorry about that.

I’ve been trying to draw
a tabby cat but it keeps
coming out as a dog.

Disastronaut

He caught
a falling star.

Happy new
year.

Happy Christmas

Fishtank revolution

Lion in wait

Demi-urge

A rite of
passage.

Food for thought

You Are What You Eat Shirt by nonstickplans
make your own custom t-shirt at zazzle

This is a t-shirt with a drawing from September 2007, adapted into a circle for Mindfields College as a logo for a seminar or workshop on diet. Alas Mindfields has ceased trading and has morphed into the smaller scale Human Givens College, where humorous logos are spat upon and clean pastel colours and Swiss-style graphics are employed instead. With so many logos going spare I thought it was time for some recycling (with permission) and a few of them (the more interesting ones) have been Zazzled.
The .com link for this t-shirt is here, by the way, though I'm not expecting anyone to buy it. Judging by my past efforts to make money, this Zazzle lark is almost inevitably doomed to failure. It's already been plagued by technical problems. I've been reading an interesting series of blog posts by Robert Twigger about how to make money. I must study them more thoroughly - it could change my life. He's an interesting writer, by the way, and I recommend his blog, and his books.
Another by-the-way is that I've started a Wordpress blog where I'll be posting drawings from the Non-Stick Plans archive which I'm using on my Zazzle products. I realise I'm occasionally doing that here too, but over on Wordpress I'm posting them big enough to see. Surely a good reason to visit. Ok, suit yourself.

Emile Zola in his J'Accuzzi

This bad literary pun is a remnant from my Paris Fraud series from February 2009 (starting here), which I never drew up. Having drawn it up I now realise that it's hardly an original bad literary pun as there are 869 results for it on Google. It's obvious when you think about it, but I may as well post it now I've drawn it up - that will make it a round number.

Body language

SomNoëlent

The words are, 'Happy Hibernation! or if you're staying awake Happy Christmas!' in case it's too small to read.
‘The Sleep of Reason Produces Funny Animals,’ as Goya almost said, and here’s one, asleep. This is my Christmas card, rather early I believe. Mainly because you won’t have the opportunity to buy it from Zazzle here (uk site), if I post it any later.
Zazzle has given me a big headache due to technical problems - nothing was showing up after I’d designed it, uploaded it, titled it, described it, categorised it, tagged it and posted it for sale. A quiet word or three with the Help! department got their technicians on the case and it now seems to be working ok. I’ve got about 140 ‘products’ so far, including this card and other funny animals. I’ll continue to add stuff if my stamina holds out. It’s hard work you know.
Perhaps only other people with Zazzle shops know.

Non-stick mugs on Zazzle

See more personalized gifts from Zazzle.

Apologies (again) for the continued absence of posts on Non-Stick, if anyone is still looking in. Here's another reason for that.
I'm spending time designing some of the drawings from this blog (of which there are many) into products for sale on Zazzle. Mugs is all I've got so far, and only a few, but I thought I'd flag it up now before it's well-stocked as I've got little else to post at the moment. I'm new to online selling so it's going to look a bit disorganised for a while. Any feedback (or requests) would be very welcome.
This widget will take you to the UK site. Here are a few links to other countries: US, Canada, Germany, France, Spain, Portugal, Australia, New Zealand, Japan and Brazil. I think that will do for now.
The mugs I've ordered are top quality and would make fantastic Christmas presents!

Running late

I did this drawing of a slow boy in an egg-and-spoon race a couple of years ago as a birthday card. 'Sorry I'm Late' was the inevitable message - a phrase bursting with possibilities for the cartoonist, or indeed anyone else. Thinking of situations in which being late has consequences, foreseen or unforeseen, pleasant or unpleasant, is a great way to spend a rainy afternoon. I recommend it.