When I enter Glory
03/01/11 09:00
So here we go - another experi-mental cartoon using my iPhone apps (for more see this site).
This one is more considered and probably(!) clearer. I wanted to convey the sense of someone who has been redeemed by Jesus and who is now on their way through the door to the other side. It is very simple but in my own mind extremely profound.
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Boxes
14/09/09 07:52
Sorted - Nov/Dec issue 09. Thanks again to Steve Legg, the Siggs and Andy Ashworth.
A redrafting of this previous version that is based on a quote from Rev Peter Lewis. Incidentally, Peter is celebrating 40 years of ministry this coming weekend in Nottingham. Cornerstone Church has had a massive influence on me and I shall be glad to pay my respects to them.
EN64 We Live In Boxes.
01/02/09 13:55
The Bible epilogue text can be found here (you will need to scroll down to find the exact part).
I have been investing a fair amount of time preparing for a retreat for 60 kids this week that looks at the ancient wisdom of proverbs on friendship. While digging around I found a wonderful quote in a Peter Lewis talk that I used as a basis for this cartoon. Currently I have no one to attribute it to, but I don't claim it for my own!
The disturbing thing about writing and thinking on genuine box-challenging friendship is that it immediately highlights all of your own failings in this area. It also reminds me of a number of people who have been astonishing friends to me in one way of another.
May I propose a toast to the best of friendships in our lives?
Here are a handful of beautiful quotes sent to my by John Tindall (via some Bible software - or was it the other way round?):
It is easy to treat people as means to an end rather than as ends in themselves. As a gregarious man once boasted, “I have friends I haven’t even used yet.”
A false friend is like your shadow. As long as there is sunshine, he sticks close by. But the minute you step into the shade, he disappears.
A friend has been defined as the first person who comes in when the whole world has gone out. Value a friend who, for you, finds time on his calendar—but cherish the friend who, for you, does not even consult his calendar.
EN63 Woolies dies but Consumerism lives on.
01/01/09 13:55
The Bible epilogue text can be found here (you will need to scroll down to find the exact part).
This piece took me a while because it was hard to work out exactly what I wanted to say. As part of the research into the event I asked a lot of people how they felt about the 99 year institution going under. I also made this short film with my mate Dean Puckett:
In the end it was yet another comment on consumerism. While I have great respect for Woolworths and personally think it is a shame that it has to die like this (I grew up in Chessington with one very near), I think that we are enslaved as a culture to consumerist values that need to be constantly identified and railed against. The god and saviour of our age is retail therapy. Although many respected traditions will hit the wall during the coming recession, one thing is sure - consumerism is going to survive.
The cartoon makes reference to the Gandalf fighting the Balrog. I like this one, but I also wonder if it is too wordy.
EN43 Son-shield
01/04/07 13:53
The Bible epilogue text can be found here (you may have to scroll down a bit to find the exact part...).
Danny Boyle has made a few really decent films. His latest movie is the basis for this one. I am aware that loads of people wont have seen it, so the strip needs to work without the audience being able to make the connection, which I think it does... anyway, the film is a tremendous meditation on the experience of flying into the sun, and the subsequent dangers. For sci-fi freaks out there (like myself) this is a treat of the highest order, and for those non-plussed with flying about in zero-gravity, this is still a very deep piece of work.
From a christian point of view it echoes lots of themes that are writ large across the Bible. God's holiness is a terrible and dangerous aspect to His being and one would do well to wear protection! The strip points at the only protection that will do - the shade that God has provided.
This is my first serious use of tradition ink dipping pens. I have been really struggling to find something decent and worth swapping with the existing stuff that I use, but I made the discovery a few days back. There is a big romance with using black ink and old-style nibs on crisp white paper. It is more scary, but feels so authentic.
Below are a few of my sketchbook developments. Email me if you see the film. I suspect that, like The Matrix, loads of Bible talks are going to based on his film in the coming months.
EN13 One 2 None: disconnecting people
01/10/04 13:50
The Bible epilogue text can be found here (you may have to scroll down a bit to find the exact part...).
I think that this is becoming more readily apparent as newer technological devices achieve a greater saturation of our culture: we are being cut off from the very thing promised to us: community and social networking.
I'm not very happy with the drawing in this one, but it's worth saying that the location is based on the place opposite Borders in Kingston Upon Thames.