My profile - The person holding the pen

I have always enjoyed drawing pictures, espeically cartoons. One of my earliest memories is when my uncle was sick in hosptial. I send him picture after picture, hoping to cheer him up. I didn't know that he was dying all the while I was drawing.

My grand father was a talented watercolor artist who encouraged my early interest in art. he gave me countless pencil stubs and to draw on he gave me the pieces of board that he'd cut from the frames for his pictures.

Growing up in the house there were many books, including a lot of older Christmas annuals containing collections from the year's comics and newspaper cartoons. My mother had a tradition of giving such annuals to different family memebers, so every year there were always fresh gags and ideas coming in. Later on I started collecting the annuals myself when frequenting used bookshops.

As many children do, I started drawig my own comics and cartoon strips. There are probably a few left in a dusty cardboard box somewhere up in my mother's attic. I don't think that I ever had any burning desire to be a cartooninst, but it was something I liked the sound of.

I got involved with the schoo magazine and in classes my notebooks were usually decorated with wierd and wonderful stuff (amongst the garbage...) LAter on at university I contributed to a short-lived arts magazine and continued to draw to amuse myself during slow lectures.

Work followed univeristy, but not the cartoons were mainly confined to Christmas and birthday cards for friends. After a few years of working in finance, I changed careers to teaching and the cartoons made a comeback, helping to illustrate teaching materials and to get points acros on the bloackboard.

A couple of years ago I began musing with the idea of taking cartoons more seriously and wanting to see what my potential was. My friend Emilio said that the idea was all well and could but could I consistently come up with ideas day in and out? So from that point onwards I set myself the challenge of thinking of at least ten new ideas everyday. I became interested in generating new ideas and will share some of them here.

After years of mainly keeping the cartoons to myself I thought it was about time to share them with a wider audience.

So that's it from my profile, if I think of anything else I'll let you know.

I hope you find something that amuses you...or makes you pause to think.

Cheers,

Rob

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