Another cartoon from the '@pencils4tea' session, where I reinvented individual portraits by putting members in the same physical space.

  Online Zoom portrait class '@pencils4tea' where I decided to create cartoons by placing the portraits together as if they were sharing the same physical space. This was interesting to…

  'Happy Hour' online sketch session with @sketchappeal - we were drawing 'M' prompts, so this is 'Merry' 'Mona' with an extra schema of Christmas ahead. I really enjoyed drawing…

  Always fun to sketch around someone's quote...(this is Michele from the Sketchy Bitches during an online Zoom portrait session).

  This sketch celebrates a Leam Funnies day trip to see the Quentin Blake exhibition at Compton Verney. I've drawn the members (both present and absent) with their personalities.

  An online session 'Drawing with Dylan' (@dylan_sara), where we sketched each other around the prompt of 'introversion'. This theme really had legs and it was easy to use 'thinking'…

  Online 'Happy Hour' session, where we sketched around 'Y' prompts. Hockney is from 'Yorkshire' and I sketched him with one of his observations - simple takes a long time,…

  Fun prompt from Dulcie's online 'Happy Hour' session from @sketchappeal. She suggested that we draw ourselves as an animal with attitude.

  A cartoon from the 'Sketchy Bitches' group Zoom session. Emma was dressed as Servalan from Blake 7 and sketched her with her glue gun (she's a crafter) and I…

  Inside my Dad's Day card, which celebrates my Dad's love of cherries, cake, and his being a great Dad.

  Greetings card for Dad's Day. The inside is below.

  Coronation Day and playing around with ideas with my cartooning circle 'The Leam Funnies'.

  Very quick collage of a funny cat - which instantly got 'likes' on Instagram. The lion may be the king of the Jungle, but the cat is definitely the…

  Playing around with Bods as Protagonists and Antagonists (here the antagonist is a bad mood that lifted when I remembered a quote by Jack Kerouac).

  Playing around with 'Bods' (sort of 'everybody' characters) as Protagonists and potential Antagonists (here a work meeting that kept foregrounding anxiety until I actually got concerned about being anxious!)

  This was created in the Sketchy Bitches session on 23/10 where we dressed up as 'Goth, Grunge, or Punk.' I get the punk ethos of 'no future', but perhaps…

  Created in the Sketchy Bitches 'Happy Hour' from Dulcie Ball's prompt to create ‘big hair’ with ‘triangles,’ This was timely as Dulcie had just being saying that noses were…

        This is a conversation that I had with Gareth Brookes (graphic novelist and fellow PhD candidate at University of the Arts London). Brilliant question from Gareth,…

    A cartoony response to the first Inktober prompt 'GARGOYLE' (where you endeavour to create something each day of October based on a word prompt).

    My 'sketchy bitch' friend came to the UK and struggled a little with English versus American language.

Various conversation and interaction condensed into a single-panel of a conversation with my Dad on the phone and conversations with J while walking in Chipping Camden. It misses all the funny…

Miserable time marking pretty bad assignments while sick...the image is supposed to be me wrapped in a duvet sleeping (which was a wish while instead I marked at my desk).

This is a graphic mapping of how my body felt while I was ill - huge runny nose, streaming eyes, throbbing hip, and sharp pain on the right. I developed…

This diary entry is really to celebrate a 4-panel comic strip that I made about this subject with the Scriberia Alums on Zoom. Sande Smith facilitated with her usual generous…

This diary entry was after a meeting with the British Consortium of Comics Scholars (the BCCS), where we discussed Elisabeth El Refaie's brilliant 'Visual Metaphor and Embodiment in Graphic Illness…

  This diary entry was created after a Leam Funnies meeting and condenses Laura's compliment of my hair and a version of her portrait of me. The portrait was created…

  This comics diary entry is based on a lovely comment on Instagram after I posted a strip of contorting flamingoes in a serious called 'Tasks for the Impossible Cartoonist:…

  My happy place is drawing. This happy place was cartooning in J's living room, where he put on a Youtube video of exotic birds that filled the room with…

  This comics diary entry was after the Sketchy Bitches 'Sketchybition' weekend and is after Dulcie's mantra 'draw! draw! draw!' After this weekend, I started to cartoon everything regardless of…

  This is another example of celebration cartoons that celebrate people. This one is celebrating Lene who loves cats, bikes, all that is gothic...and had just been laughingly discussing how…

  I've started to enjoy cartooning the funny things that people say! Here, Dulcie was posing for her portrait and said this.

This is a capture of a lot of words (!) from the Sky Arts Winner at his talk for Sketch Appeal at the 'Sketchybition' in Shoreditch on 26 March 2022.…

Comics Diary Doodle:  Work depression has been that I've let 'The Leam Funnies' slide of late. Got this lovely message from Sue to continue...a great boost for dwindling confidence.

  Comics Diary Doodle:  My cartooning circle, 'The Leam Funnies' got together in front of my fire for drawing and snacks. We had set ourselves the task of creating punny…

Comics Diary Doodle:  This was created after giving a workshop at the Sketch Appeal Pop-Up Exhibition in Oxford Street, London. I noticed how the other artists had prepared very little…

  Comics Diary Doodle:  Wondering about the whole stigma of drawing well...drawing badly seems freeing and funny...

Comics Diary Doodle: After a coffee with my friend/neighbour Bev, where she told me of a writer telling her that he concentrates on writing mechanisms rather than the content (particularly…

Comics Diary Doodle:  JC making me laugh to tears of hilarity.

Comics Diary Doodle:  Fairly depressed since returning to teaching at CU, as it takes over in a toxic way until I feel self-destructive. It made it clear that self-care was…

Comics Diary Doodle:  The wonderful cartoonist Kate Evans talking at the LDC online meeting.

  Comics Doodle Diary: Remembering some fun from the day when working with the Scriberia Alums online. Here we're working with the creative prompt of fusing our faces with birds.

    Comics Doodle Diary: Remembering my students punning around the suffix 'tree' and them inventing a 'Coventry' tree.

  Comics Doodle Diary:  Tough stuff lately with the return to CU...but nevertheless and always cartooning makes me happy!

  Comics Diary Doodle:  My fellow 'Sketchy Bitch' Pat always draws me in our drawing sessions with a bird on my shoulder. I love this! Would like to add this…

  Comics Doodle Diary: Wonderful talk with Alex Norris for LDC online. He spoke of his web comic and how he aims to make 'a little with a lot' -…

    Comics diary doodle - Dad on very good form on his birthday - lots of stories and lots of laughter. Plus, he invited himself to J's house! Before…

  This cartoon is based around two remembered conversations, one with my poor Mum (who is playful and fun-loving) where I'm banging on, and the other is in a PhD…

    Comics diary entry: When I'm out of energy (brain usually), I oversleep and overeat...it's not good! This cartoon illustrates this weird imbalance to watch out for...