News — screenprints
Tribute to Asterix creator Albert Uderzo
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HAPPY GNASHER GOES BIG
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I’ve printed this image of Gnasher grinning his biggest grin in my largest size. Dennis the Menace’s faithful hound is obviously having a good day. Dennis the Menace, the star of The Beano comic, first appeared in 1951. He has since become a kind of national mascot – what Asterix is to France, or Oor […]
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New portrait of Dennis the Menace
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Dennis the Menace has one of the most recognisable faces in Britain. That chaotic shock of hair, that round face, that grin. I like the simplicity and clarity of this screenprint: the black-and-white face, the splash of colour. And he’s also come to be associated with the colour red – the colour of the stripe […]
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Popeye: Heavenly man
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A flapper calls Popeye a heavenly man. Once again, Popeye is astonished by the attention he’s getting. And I have to say, heavenly is an interesting word to use – it makes me wonder what exactly it is that this elegantly dressed woman sees in the great man. But who is this flapper? And where is Olive? […]
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Showtime for Comic Art in central London
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I am showing my new screenprints at an exhibition in central London – please come along to have a look if you can. The exhibition – at The Showcase, St John’s Square in Clerkenwell, 33-35 Saint John’s Square, London EC1M 4DS – features a wall of recentrly-designed and printed medium-sized screenprints. These include medium-sized versions of– Dennis the […]
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