Category Archives: Art

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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The Root of All Violence… is Violence.

Posted on March 4, 2011 by Mike Roberts

Inked panels from We Ran the World cartoon strip, in uncoloured state. Written by Andy Oldfield. Published in The Damage (aka Brain Damage).

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Moth planes. Or plane moths.

Posted on March 4, 2011 by Mike Roberts

Someone left the window open this evening

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Subconsciously Libya?

Posted on March 3, 2011 by Mike Roberts

While investigating what I could do with a new box of watercolours, this image emerged. In a week dominated by the revolt and strife in Libya it seems to have been influenced by those events.

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Exhibition sketchbook: Ronald Searle ‘What? Already?!’, 90th year exhibition, Wilhelm Busch Museum, Hannover

Posted on December 31, 2010 by Mike Roberts

Exhibition sketchbook: Ronald Searle – self portrait, originally uploaded by mike(toons). 2010 has been a year of rediscovery for me. And the greatest of these has been of Ronald Searle’s work, made possible by exhibitions in London and Hannover in … 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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Assassination of the pretender

Posted on February 1, 2010 by Mike Roberts

Assassination of the pretender. 25cm x 21cm. Sketchbook work. Some time free from the clutches of the Digital Life. Using inks which I’ve had for over 15 years. And they still work. Playtime with the materials… slowly evolving from the … 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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