prof. stephen hawking

Drew this some time last year, but didn't do anything with it. Seems appropriate to post it today...

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classic miracle comics: blockhead #14

Blockhead #14

“One thing’s for certain -- I’m not getting out that way!”

-- Blockhead

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Appearing in “Inside Out!”

Featured Characters:

• Blockhead
• The Introspective Man

Locations:

• The Introspective Man’s Body

Items:

• Blockhead’s Jacket
• The Introspective Man’s Reduction Ray (flashback only)

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Synopsis for “Inside Out!”

The Story continues from Blockhead #13

Miniaturised and swallowed by the Introspective Man, Blockhead frantically searches for a way out of the body of his inward-looking nemesis. But as he makes his way through the respiratory tract, he soon finds himself under attack from the Cold Virus!

Notes

• The interior of the Introspective Man’s body is next used as a location in The Unusuals #38

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a beard of bees

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...perhaps a barber's shop

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blow your horn raymond

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something not quite right here

More University Challenge sketchbookery from (what feels like) several years ago. A bout of 'flu incapacitated me just before Jesus Christmas and I've also been preoccupied fitting a new kitchen at TPS headquarters this past few weeks so drawing has been on the back burner for a while now. Hoping to remedy that from here on in...

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light drawing

The group of students I'm with on Wednesdays had a workshop on light drawing this week. Rachel, a PGCE student who had organised the lesson, took the group down to the darkroom where she had set up digital cameras with long exposures. Then using torches covered with the coloured cellophane wrappers from Quality Street chocolates (!), she got them to make drawings in response to music she had playing. It was a really fun session. The students were really engaged and came up with some interesting responses. Naturally, I couldn't resist having a go myself...

Digital photo. Canon camera and torch keyring wrapped in cellophane.