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It’s about a witch that is tormented by the three rats living in her shack. They torture her. She’s miserable. She has a magic garden though, and the garden gives her a little turnip child named Mickey Turnips. Mickey is kind and helpful. She overcomes the rats and lives happily ever after.

The book contains silly images and some rat murder.

It was inspired by the books of Quentin Blake and William Steig. My illustration style is also inspired by them, but Tim Burton and Ronald Searle are also a big part of that. The book is dedicated to them.

Writing and illustrating a book is not easy!

It was a learning process. I had no idea what I was doing, but luckily Eye of Newt walked me through the process.

I hope you like it if you buy it.

Here are some of the scanned watercolour and ink drawings I stitched together in Procreate (and maybe added some more colour for a sky or something.)

Link to buy book!

Lots of fun, not sure what it all means but hey. Anyways, some of the comments on Adult Swim’s post were more or less saying ‘Did Quentin Blake draw this?’ Or ‘This artist has ripped off Quentin Blake!’

This is a criticism I come up against often enough. Blake, or Ralph Steadman. Or Ronald Searle…or any other number of watercolour and ink artists. I’ll be the first to admit that Blake is my biggest influence. I love his scratchy style and have admired his work my whole life. Searle I found a few years back, but has been an influence since I did. I don’t see the Steadman similarities except in a few of his pieces but he was never on my radar (he’s awesome though!)

When I was young I drew funny characters and drawings of my classmates. Later in life I discovered Tim Burton’s drawings and fell in love with the free linework and inky blackness of it. During the pandemic I picked up drawing and painting again and dove into learning a style of my own. I decided I wanted to draw like Quentin Blake, Tim Burton and Ronald Searle all rolled into one. Also some William Steig. Some Kate Beaton. A lil Lee Gatlin. Dash of Richard Scarry. So on.

It irks me to no end to hear people say I’m ripping off Blake, or any number of my art heroes. Of course I am! I aspire to create great art and we stand on the shoulders of giants. I don’t want to stand directly on one giant’s shoulders though. Given that I hear it often enough, I suppose it’s worth acknowledging. I love Blake’s free line, silly subjects and the way he details his images with flecks of the pen and smudges of ink.

I can only hope one day someone will see my art and call it a ‘Beaudette’.

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And this other Halloween themed one

Neither of these really ‘make any sense’ but they're silly on a way, I think.

Most of my comics don't really make sense I guess, I don't think that's important. Punchlines rarely work, but a funny image or two in the story are the best bits.

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This one is havin a barf. Been there!

This is my character, Wazzo. In french they say Oiseau for bird, which sounds like wazzo. This character is a bad guy. He smokes and is bad in general. He makes me laugh.

‘High as a Goose on the Moon’ was the idea here. Could be a T-shirt.

Crow.

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Here I've tried to inject some Henson humour as well. Watercolour and ink, as usual.