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David Thelwell helps me choose new images
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I spent last Friday afternoon with artist David Thelwell, son of cartoonist Norman Thelwell, who helped me choose some images from his father’s archive to turn into screenprints. I have picked a few dozen and some of these will be appearing on these pages in due course. Norman Thelwell became the unofficial cartoonist of the […]
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Asterix’s battle cry
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Can there be a more representative image of Asterix than this one, urging his friends into action with an urgent battle cry? My latest trio of Asterix screenprints shows the little Gaulish warrior in three characteristic poses. One shows him urging his friends forward (‘En avant!,’ Asterix cries; ‘Let’s go!’ or ‘Forward!’), the second being […]
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New Asterix screenprints
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I have designed and produced three new Asterix screenprints. This one shows the three pals, Asterix, Obelix and Dogmatix in silhouette, on a light blue background I have taken the image from the Asterix books – I am the the first and only British screenprinter to have permission from French publisher Editions Albert Rene to use their archive […]
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Thelwell - the man who drew ponies
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Introducing my new Thelwell screenprints: the first such editions ever produced. Norman Thelwell, who died in 2004, was the unofficial chronicler of the British countryside, and became especially well known and loved for his drawings of little girls on pony-back and of members of the Pony Club. (Pony Club is an international youth organization devoted to […]
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Asterix in Paris
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Asterix in Paris Comic Art is at the Maison Et Objet trade show in Paris … to sell Asterix to the French. I have extended my licence to market my screenprints of Asterix, Obelix, Getafix and Dogmatix to the rest of Europe, including France, Italy, Spain and Germany and am in Paris to try to […]
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