In which the ghosts of Hamlet and Old Hamlet team up to fight crime at the court of the new King Fortinbras.
From the depths of my sketchbook, and my psyche.
Category Archives: Sketches
Bite-sized comics for a busy world
The thing is, you’re a busy person. Sometimes time is too tight to properly appreciate a novel, or a fine oil painting, or indeed a comic with more than one ‘joke’ in it. Sometimes all you want is a tiny scrawl of Ben Jonson.
We at Avoiding The Bears understand this. We aim to cater to your every comics need. That’s why we have produced these pictures, especially for you.
Elizabeth
Jonson
I blame all that fat I’ve been eating
I blame all those books I pretend to read
Why would people make me do training when I am hungover, what do they hate me or something
That they are
Train in vain
I have spent a lot of time on trains recently. This is some of the rubbish I have come out with.
On my way to Devon I got the most busy train in the world and ended up lying down in the luggage space between two rows of seats in first class, surrounded by braying idiots. Which I suppose is a fairly neat (if not, er, trite) illustration of The Class Divide.
And then I went to Beeston (the below picture offended my friend Jemima, she thought it was about her)
I do draw some weird shit
Here endeth my boring travel stories
Roundheads vs Cavaliers IN SPACE
I think we can safely say what my Doctor Who episode would be like, should I ever be called upon to write one.
Yeah, I don’t know why I drew this either.
Sixteen hundred miles from the people I know
I’ve been doing all I can but opportunity sure comes slow…
I have an evil cold, booze is probably to blame for it, I want no more bottles of wine thank you muchly.
Troy sketches
As made during a Troilus & Cressida lecture that made much use of said cinematic masterpiece. Student, afterwards: ‘I liked that film when I was a kid!’ I. Feel. So. Old.
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