News — Popeye and Olive

This is your print-off-and-keep guide on how to spot a bad silkscreen print.  These are five faults that a silkscreen printer must avoid if he/she is to produce a clean image: 1 Over-inking. This can happen if the image on the stencil is too close to the edge of the screen and it is difficult […]

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Two Comic Art shows in central London this week – all next week I will be showing at The Showcase in St John’s Square, Clerkenwell; and then on Sunday – which is Fathers’ Day – I will also be selling at the Marylebone Summer Fayre. The Showcase, Clerkenwell – Monday to Sunday The pop-up shop will […]

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Screenprint exhibition for Fathers’ Day – I’m holding a selling exhibition of my screenprints in central London all next week, leading up to Fathers’ Day on Sunday, June 19. The pop-up shop will be at The Showcase, 33-35 St John’s Square, London EC1M 4DS from Monday June 13-Sunday June 19. Our opening times will be […]

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Buy your father some grenades on Father’s Day, Sunday June 19. A screenprint of a soldier about to throw some grenades might be just what a day in your life would like – the sentiment “This looks like a job for a couple of grenades” does of course lend itself to multiple applications. The panel […]

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A screenprint of mine has debunked a myth about why Popeye eats spinach. This is the screenprint in question – it is taken from a 1932 cartoon strip in which Popeye encounters spinach for the first time. It was used as evidence in a paper which examined the much-repeated myth that Popeye eats spinach for […]

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