THE LITTLE PHILISTINES

We have a gig. Here's the red and white flyer - ooh how very White Stripes I hear you cry...

HORRIFIC CONSEQUENCES!!!

Me and the girlfriend created this beast during a tube journey. If you come across it lurking down there in the tunnels, RUN!

PASSENGERS

More sketches from the back of Blake's cab. Step forward Messrs Leigh, Merrick and Hirst.

GOLLUM HAS A SPOT OF GIRL TROUBLE

Poor old Gollum - he can never do or say the right thing. A packet of minstrels to anyone who can correctly identify the artist and painting that this picture tips its hat to.

FLYER

Apropros of nothing, here's one of my band's flyers, customised by the rain.

VIRGINIA WOOLF

Dear old Virginia Woolf, should be appearing in next week's Time Out...

MORE BLAKE SKETCHES

Samuel Pepys...

... and stony-faced Queen Victoria. Apparently Aleister Crowley did a little jig when he discovered that she'd died.

A VISION IN PECKHAM

William Blake watches himself as a lad watching tree of angels on Peckham Rye, my local park don't you know?

MORE BILLY BLAKE

Just heard Bob 'Oskins on Radio 4. If I ever get to make William Blake, Taxi Driver into a cartoon I'm going to beg him to do the voice.

Here are some more sketches, cuddly Mr Marx and spikey Tracey Emin.

 

WILLIAM BLAKE, TAXI DRIVER

Ooh look, first post. I think I'm going to use this blog as a sketchbook mainly so here are sketches of various Blake passangers who later found their way into the page of Time Out.

First up, an early drawing of Blake himself and a couple of Richard Whittington, thrice Lord Mayor of London town: