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Are you an American who has been hoping to get the shiny and beautifully produced hardcover of Worst Journey Vol.1 for a mere $14(before shipping)? Or are you anyone in the world who would like to download a fully-zoomable PDF to enjoy on the electronic reader of your choice? Then get down to the Iron Circus store, because I've only gone and got an Eisner nomination, and there's a sale on nominated books.

The Eisner Awards are tonight, Pacific Time. Will I wake up in the UK tomorrow morning to have an Eisner-winning book on my hands? No – some of the other nominees are French. But it's nice to be considered their peer for a little while at least.

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To celebrate the 115th anniversary of the Terra Nova sailing from Cardiff, Worst Journey Vol.1 is 30% off in the Iron Circus store on Sunday 15 June 2025!

This INCLUDES the e-book, so if you're a non-US person who balks at shipping costs, get your fully zoomable virtual copy while the US dollar is low and the PDF is only $6.67.

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U.S. Book Birthday

Hey hey, it's my book birthday in the States! If you are Stateside, you can finally pick up your very own copy of this, with all the new and improvements of the last two years!

Look at that! How cool is that! Don't you want one? You can get one for under $20 from Bookshop.org! (Other retailers are available; I will let you do your own search.)

Maybe pick one up for your local library as well!

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@herbert-west This one?

Back in 2011, the animation department at Disney wanted to put out an anthology of comics, like the story department’s Torch Tiger and Rocket Johnson. To make a long story short … it kind of fell apart. Well, completely fell apart. I was one of the few who actually got my comic finished, and I sat on it for a while hoping things would get sorted out, but the ashes are cold now, so here it is.

The original anthology was intended to have a little flipbook in the outside corners, so if you’re wondering why the text or composition is a little off, that is why.

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Now THAT'S an endorsement!

Mucus Buster

Everyone's got lingering congestion this year, so as someone who's no stranger to phlegm, and inherited the folk wisdom of a stage actress (the show must go on!) I share with you my recipe for making things better:

2L water

the juice and rind of one lemon (just dump the juiced rinds in, don't zest them, you maniac)

a small thumb of fresh ginger, sliced in coins

about a dozen cloves, some star anise, peppercorns, and maybe whole cinnamon or allspice or whatever else you like, in a tea ball (except the cinnamon if it doesn't fit, obvs)

good dollop of honey, to taste

Bring the water to a boil then dump in all the stuff. Keep it hot but not boiling – a slow cooker is good for this. Keep this pot on a low heat all day and serve yourself a mug every so often, adding water as necessary. At some point you will need to add a new lemon and some more honey, but the spices can generally carry over two pots if you're drinking it regularly.

The acid helps clear the gunk, ginger is good for the circulation, and clove/aniseed/pepper have some sort of decongestant/soothing properties. Honey is both nice and antiseptic, and apparently is a cough suppressant as well? Anyway, I just got over another run of Covid and this was wasn't 100% effective but it worked better than phenylephrine.

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I'm giving a talk this week about using my Adventure Cartoonist powers for evil good by learning everything I possibly can about kelp farming over the last few months. Join me Wednesday, April 9th at 9am Pacific for a talk on Illustrating Aquaculture! Whether you're a science communicator, a visual artist looking for to expand your job opportunities, or just wanna hear about AQUATIC MYSTERIES, there will be something for you.

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World Radio Day is 13 February, so to stand up for the wealth of quality audio drama on the BBC, which is continuing to cut its drama department, I'm reposting drawings that have been inspired by BBC radio productions ... or in this case, incorporating a bit of one.

I'm a fan of BBC radio drama, but nothing at all can compare to the effect Radio 4's 2008 adaptation of The Worst Journey in the World had on me. It's my life now.

Words cannot rise to describing how satisfying this was to make.

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The Museum of Classical Archaeology had a Drink and Draw night where we had a small glass of cheap wine and went around sketching their plaster casts of ancient statues. You know, like proper art students used to do.

There were bums.

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Sketchbook 11 May 2018

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People enjoying the return of warm sunny weather. Little did they know this was going to be a long, dry, and very hot summer ...

8 May 2018, Cambridge, UK

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The nice thing about sketching punters is that absolutely none of them are looking at their phones.

5 May 2018, Cambridge

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4 May 2018, Cambridge

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24 April 2018, Cambridge

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The BBC is continuing to cut its drama department, so I'm reposting drawings that have been inspired by BBC radio productions ...

Radio 4 Extra is rerunning the excellent radio play of The Idiot, so I finally took the time to do this title up right (by which I mean, of course, deeply inappropriately).  It so amused me, when I was working at Disney, and people would call anything mildly unpleasant “dark” – no no, this is dark.

I don’t usually like 19th Century drawing-room dramas, as they seem so petty, but Dostoevsky sees right through it and calls them out on their pettiness and I respect him for that.  Yes, it’s dark.  Humanity is dark.  If you haven’t had to come to grips with that yourself, well, bless your heart.

Oh, also, Roger Allam is in it.

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World Radio Day is 13 February, so to stand up for the wealth of quality audio drama on the BBC, which is continuing to cut its drama department, I'm reposting drawings that have been inspired by BBC radio productions ..

The better part of the last three days has been spent listening (and relistening) to A Place of Greater Safety.  At first I wasn’t keen on the embedded double-narrator conceit, but once I learned to tell the male one from all the other men, they’ve grown on me a lot.  Give it a listen, see what you think!  Episode 1 throws a lot at you but it’s all worth it for Episode 3 … just get to Episode 3.

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Pre-pandemic, Cambridge was blessed with the occasional street concert by The Trials of Cato. It was fab. These are sketches of the band (as it was then) and people passing by.

If you sign up to my Patreon, you will get sketchbook posts a lot sooner than seven years after I draw them ...

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Sketchbook, Cambridge, 19 April 2018

Quite a warm day for the time of year, if I remember correctly ...

Much more timely sketchbook posts on my Patreon!