John Allison

@badmachinery.com

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Cartoonist in Leeds, UK. I brought you such comics as Steeple, Bad Machinery, Giant Days, Scary Go Round, Bobbins, Great British Bump-Off and Solver. The nation's favourite. https://badmachinery.com

A Double Decker
A series of blight-related headlines
Screen grab of The Seventh Victim
A box of mixed CDs
B&W ad for Wincarnis featuring a Knight of Old and the Alamy mark of quality
Wincarnis Wine Jelly ad
1960s Wincarnis Tonic Wine ad supplied by Alamy, "We Watermarked it so you'd know"
1940s Wincarnis tonic wine ad - health is priceless
A picture of reminiscing bananas - all Cavendish but for one Gros Michel
Snoke from Star Wars
Esther de Groot says "surely there's a drink for women that isn't pink gin or babycham" "no" comes the reply
Pat Boone making music safe for middle America
Alvin Chipmunk and his friends Choobus and Quercy
Lalas 93
Lithograph of stipendiary magistrate T Stamford Raffles of Liverpool
Macc Pow Saturday June 27th, Macclesfield's Comic Art Festival 2026
The Little Chef menu from the early 70s (decimalisation era)
Cactus plants in a hot area
A large and horrible car. Perhaps it is a "voxel" lolle
heman
Stained glass featuring ducklike entities
headline: "Ruthless Radacanu powers into Queen's final"
Heinz sandwich spread
Some Giant Days volumes in a charity shop window.
David Mellor the host of 606 the red hot soccer chat hitmaker
Football punditry red in tooth and claw. Who should England play behind Harry Kane? I don't care and never will
A copy of Chris Ware's Building Stories in a specially designed nook on top of a stairway bulkhead
A Clip Studio menu
Murder She Writes 15th Anniversary Edition rough cover
KLF's Last Train To Transcentral at number 1 on the Chart Show dance chart back in the time of Pitt the Younger
A scene from a covered market, a stall reads “yoghourt”
Giant Days book cover
Joe Kennedy III
Father and son team Wes Streeting and Sir Keir Starmer
In the picture you see here, Streeting fumes because while Daddy is allowed a real coffee drink, he only gets a "babyccino"
Jeremy Claypole
Grotbags
Mr Blobby
Choco apple
Artist's impression of caramel orange slash ball
Truthy the vacuum cleaner
Donald Sutherland points to the last person not on "Threads" in Invasion of the Body Snatchers
OMG Stunts poster aka LOL Trucks
Veep "Special Relationship" episode screen cap
Blossom pangram wheel
Tattoo design featuring Princess Di holding the Jules Rimet trophy and the words "DO OR DI play up England World Cup Champions 2026", and then a subsidiary tattoo with Pickles the trophy finding dog
Headline: "How Russell is surprising himself in title race"
The Bad Machinery comic strip for April 20th, 2026
Dazzle by Judith Krantz
DON'T TIT ABOUT ON LADDERS sign from the British Ladder Council
The Osmond's Crazy Horses LP cover
A picture of four butchers around the word "MEAT MEN"
Sentient stationary item "Clippy" (officially Paul "Clipsworth")
Headline: Sydney Sweeney - I just want to make films that save people's lives
A Ronald Searle-esque figure drawn in a mid-century mode
Lottie and Claire from Solver as Lynchian nightclub singers