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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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Here’s a new screenprint of Asterix and his three closest pals: Obelix, Dogmatix and Gatafix in a tableau which sums up the central secret of the Asterix books. It shows Asterix smacking his chops after taking some of the magic potion brewed by the druid Getafix as his best pal, the enormous and enormously loyal […]

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Comic Art screenprints at Spitalfields Arts Market – I’ll be exhibiting at Spitalfields Arts Market from Thursday (June 2) until Sunday (June 5), from 9am – 5pm each day. The exhibition of about a dozen artists is held on Market Street, between Brushfield Street & Crispin Place, London E1 6AA. We’ll be showing – all […]

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I’m developing a range of watercoloured screenprints of Alice in Wonderland. The drawings which illustrated Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland and Alice Through The Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll were made by Victorian draftsman John Tenniel in the 1860s and 1870s and they pretty much define how we think of Alice. I’ve been developing the method […]

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Here’s a print-off-and-hang poster about how to make a screenprint. It shows all the various stages of the process, from the original image to the finished handmade screenprint. 1 Pick your image,in this case the P from Little Plum, The Beano Summer Special 1971. I have a licence from DC Thomson to use such images, […]

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