One for the Shrewsbury Cartoon Festival

"So ... where do you see yourself in four million years?"

This is a colour print submitted for exhibition at the Shrewsbury Cartoon Festival, which takes place in April. I'll be attending and will be drawing and painting one of the Big Boards (6ft by 8ft) in the market square. The theme this year is "Time". Click here to see previous posts about Shrewsbury.

Evolution cartoon: The job interview

"So ... where do you see yourself in four million years?"

Sometimes it pays to do a bit of picture research. I could've gone for the standard ape-like caveman look with this cartoon, but I decided to do a Google image search for artists' impressions of early man. It paid off I think. I might put him in some other cartoons ...

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Not Yet Sold: Job interview cartoon

"Can you start straight away?"

This is one from 2006 that got a good reaction from people who saw it. It was in the Cartoonists' Club newsletter The Jester (though I was editor at the time!) and it won a cartoon of the week contest on an internet forum.

But, as you can guess from its inclusion in this feature, it was oft-declined by paying markets. Click here for all Not Yet Sold (don't mention the R word!) cartoons.

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