Sketch dungeon + memories

Five sketches from my sketch dungeon folder.

1. Patsy Walker: Hellcat.
Did you watch Jessica Jones? Patsy wasn't much of a laugh in that. I love the history of the character though - she debuted in 1944! The early issues were drawn by the legendary MAD artist Al Jaffee. I don't think they should have made her into a superhero, that was the coward's way out. But Patsy was created the year my mother was born and Patsy became Hellcat the year I was born so maybe those seasons just have to change.

2. Steeple: Satan's Paw
Why did I draw this fake cover for Steeple, with its deeply offensive demonic pinky positioning? To make my friend Marc Ellerby laugh. That is the only reason.

3. Rum tum tuggers
Chris Hastings' Dr McNinja returns in this commemorative image to celebrate the release of Cats in 2019, the most painful movie I have ever watched. It gave me a stress headache, I had to bail after 45 minutes. No more cats for me.

4. Golf
In 2018 I branded my whole convention booth table for Thought Bubble Festival around golf. I had golf trophies. Golf tees, golf balls, a "grass" tablecloth and a new vinyl standee with a big picture of Des playing golf. This is a rejected illustration for the standee. At the end of the convention, so disgusted was I with golf, that I threw all the promotional materials into a big dustbin as I exited the convention. Golf courses cover more land in the UK than housing does. Ecologically speaking, they are nearly deserts. Stuff golf.

5. LSCC 2018(?)
The now-defunct London Super Comic-Con is not an event I look back on with any pleasure; they would seat exhibitors in alphabetical order, strictly one to a table, to ensure you could never leave to go to the toilet. By the third time I exhibited in 2018, they had listened to feedback and reduced attendance to the point that it didn't really matter whether you were at your table or not. There was no 2019 event.