Category Archives: Illustration

archy and mehitabel

Posted on February 21, 2012 by Mike Roberts

a good friend sent me a book one christmas it was an old library book he d bought for a few cents but he asked me to ignore that information even though it was written in felt pen inside it … Continue reading →

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Have a happy Christmas and New Year holiday

Posted on December 18, 2011 by Mike Roberts

Which is shorthand for I hope you have a happy Christmas and a happy and successful New Year. I drew this originally for ArtsMonkey’s Christmas Advent Blog but, with just a few tweaks, it serves well as my digital Christmas … Continue reading →

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Happy St Swithin’s Day everyone!

Posted on July 15, 2011 by Mike Roberts

Will it rain for 40 days and 40 nights?

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Cartoon stereotype

Posted on June 13, 2011 by Mike Roberts

Just Amazing. TV Times 1984. More art from the miketoons dusty archives. An illustration to accompany programme details in TV Times. Apparently the man featured in the programme ate bottles, bicycles and even a light aircraft. Cartoon stereotype of a … Continue reading →

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Art in a Rainy City

Posted on June 8, 2011 by Mike Roberts

Art in a Rainy City, 1980s: Illustration in Indian ink for an exhibition of work by illustrators based in the Manchester area. A one night stand with the art buyers and creatives of Manchester. I don’t remember getting any commissions … Continue reading →

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Meat

Posted on April 10, 2011 by Mike Roberts

At various times in my life I have been vegetarian, sometimes reluctantly through pressure from family members, other times willingly. More recently, I’ve been eating meat occasionally – bacon, pork sausages, chicken and, less often, beef – and always with … Continue reading →

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Roger Frames: rediscovered pencil rough

Posted on March 18, 2011 by Mike Roberts

While rummaging through a pile of old pencil roughs (I call it my filing system) I discovered, or rediscovered, this first pencil rough for a Roger Frames cartoon. It was for the third of three cartoons where the theme was … Continue reading →

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Roger Frames buys Budjit Games

Posted on December 30, 2010 by Mike Roberts

I’ve been scanning in old art commissioned by Commodore Format magazine in the early 1990s. At the time, Future Publishing was probably my best client and I was producing artwork for many of its magazines. The regular project that I … Continue reading →

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Quick Brown Fox

Posted on February 10, 2010 by Mike Roberts

…and Lazy Dog. Scraperboard illustration in a woodcut style which was used as the logo for Quick Brown Fox (typesetters and pre-press company in Manchester, UK). It was based on a colour painting by another artist, whose name I don’t … Continue reading →

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Roger Frames and his dog Debit watch the Chancellor’s Speech

Posted on December 6, 2009 by Mike Roberts

This is a blast from the past. An ink and wash illustration commissioned by Commodore Format magazine in the early 1990s. I illustrated many “Roger Frames buys Budjit Games” for the magazine involving the penny-pinching antics of Roger, who acted … Continue reading →

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