Family Fortunes
A prospective strip to go with this article on the JC blog about nepotism and in-fighting within the Israeli Cabinet. Scroll down a bit - it's the Feb 16th posting called 'Family Tensions'.

A Financial Services Comic Mashup. (Bet that's the first time those words have ever been lumped together into the same sentence)

Inject humour and cotidian cartoon insight into a financial services website? They said it couldn't be done. They were wrong.

Tony Pan and Hamza Hook

Whilst turning everyone's favourite one-handed convicted hate-criminal into Captain Hook wasn't the most imaginative leap I've ever taken, I think little Tony works quite well as a diminutive little pixie manchild who refuses to grow old. Despite the onset of old grey hairs and crow's feet. Quite ironic for someone who's so obsessed with their legacy really.

With all the glamour, allure and intrigue of the latest Bond film's Casino Royale, Manchester has snatched the right to build a snarling uber-casino away from London's favourite eyesore, the Millennium Dome.

To mark the occasion, I hereby present a sloshed Jowell trying to stump up the ever-increasing (think it was 8 billion squid last check) bill for the 2012 Olympics.

On a gambling tip, I was also unlucky enough to catch Clive Owen's masterful performance in Croupier last night - the most craptacular piece of celluloid since Woody Allen's Match Point. Take Clive's trademark 1000mile stare, sprinkle in some tired cliches about life being a numbers game and add some heroically bad lines like:

-"I'm leaving you"
"That's why I love you...because you're a real man"

and you have only the first inkling of what can only be described as the jackpot of wannabe slick film noir derivative poop. Just as well he was pretty good in Children of Men really. You're better off gambling away your money than renting this turkey.

"Whassis? Two posts in the same day?!" I hear you cry. Yes indeedy. Like a shuffling octogenarian bewilderedly traversing the streamed traffic of the internet superhighway, I've chanced upon quite possible the best site in the world EVER - aside from my very own archburger.com, naturally - and feel the world would be a better place for sharing it.

Tis THE HYPE MACHINE and is a ridiculously amazing gizmo for checking out new bands on t'internet. Just whack the band's name into it and it'll pull out all the mp3 and video content on them that's out there. Gratis. Rejoice!

As a taster, check this here vid out from the magnificent Wagon Christ.
And here be some more pics o' mine for you too. Aren't i kind.

Oooh and lest I forget, a new strip of mine has been posted up at Slow London's site. It's in its very own Slow Toons section here.

39. The Book's Finally Finished!

Though it might look like a tiny online skip from the last posting to this here one, the gap betwixt the two has seen me finally finish the illustrations for that book I mentioned. Amidst a veritable tsunami of tea, pencil rubbings and inky fingers. The book's due out around the start of Summer so you can all mosey on down to the shops then (plug plug). Here are a few more examples to whet your appetites - more political/caricature/strip stuff is to follow shortly.

You'll also notice the whopping orange RSS icon which brings you a mere click away from getting my doodled spam every day via a feed. Deeeelicious. In other news, got my grubby mitts on the new Arcade Fire, Jamie T and Noisettes albums t'other day and they all kick 2006's offerings into the shade. Fave choons from the three are 'Keep the Car Running', 'Sheila' and 'Sister Rosetta (Capture the Spirit)'.

Plus I randomly stumbled across an awesome scandanavian punk rocking outfit (nope, not abba-styled sequined flares) called 'Love is All' who are defo worth a listen. Check em out here