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Cartoon of Matt Damon saying “Lovely beach, but I can’t shake the feeling we’ve done this before! Maybe keep the oars ready this time…” Odysseus’ men spent a lot of time running back to the boat.
Cover of the comic Godzilla’s the Odyssey shows the giant Kaiju standing on two rocks holding a boulder over an ancient Greek ship, with harpies, Zeus and the zodiac constellations behind him
A cartoon on 21st Century Food Trains. 3 icons of heads : a baby being fed with a spoon (here comes the chop chop train), a baby swallowing a projectile (here comes the bullet train), a withered old head being fed with a spoon ( here comes HS2)
Cover of the book Gender Swapped Greek Myths by Karrie Fransman and Jonathan Plackett
Six fingered cartoon of classic early comic character Alley Sloper (from Alley Sloper’s Half-holiday with caption A I Slopper’s Half-arsed Holiday.
A panel from a black and white comic describing the colour in the panel. Moore had decided to write a character with sapphire teeth, then he need to have them tell the reader that their teeth were sapphire because he was working in a publication without colour. It’s a clever solution but one that is needed because he has made a choice to write something he cannot show so he must resort to telling
A comic speech balloon with a typo so it reads: “ He has the opportunity to make his otherwise stupid and useless British life finally mean something!”
Storyteller Jason Buck holds an oversized copy of Slaine The Horned God (by Pat Mills and Simon Bisley) - the source material for his one-man show
Covers of Isabel Greenberg zines: Rites, Customs and Histories of the Great Empire of Migdal Bavel and The River of Lost Souls
A lass or a lad. Guns don’t care. Pun cartoon in support of #cartoonistsforg4za
A visual example of how one might work out the colour mix somebody else used in a printed comic…