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My career as an amateur astronomer is blighted by street lighting and the English weather. In fact you could say that I suffer from… Astral Dejection I've seen Galaxies, Milky Ways and Mars in sweet shops – they're chocolate bars. But I've never seen them in the night sky either with telescope or naked . . . → Read More: Astral Dejection Writing has always been equal a passion as drawing and I have written many short stories, poems, scripts, lyrics and various comical essays. The advantage of being a cartoonist as well, is that you can combine the two to great effect. Here's a short story which was published in More Tonto Short Stories last . . . → Read More: Not only a cartoonist but also a writer… The Times, back in 1995, revealed some more tedious pranks being played in the name of science. Bart Knols (crazy name, crazy guy!) of Wageningen Agricultural University in the Netherlands was helping to divine which part of the body most attracts mosquitos. Lying in a tent, in only his underpants, his feet seemed to . . . → Read More: Cheesey Feat of Scientist’s Feet Half a century later and I am still undecided. I’ve managed to hack out a living from cartoons and caricatures, all the while being in love with writing, humour, TV and films. If I could equal the living I’m making simply by tapping a keyboard and eventually seeing the contents of my fevered imagination . . . → Read More: What are you going to do when you grow up? Short Poem Napoleon Bonaparte, Queen Victoria, Ronnie Corbett, Frankie Dettori, Mohamed Al Fayed, Carla from Cheers, Angus Deayton, Ben Elton, Michael J Fox, Red Skelton Red Buttons, Dustin Hoffman, And in built-up shoes, Tom Cruise. Lester Piggott, Mickey Rooney, Ian Hislop, Rosemary Clooney Lulu, Robin Cook, Dudley Moore, Jimmy Clitheroe, Danny DeVito, Lou Costello, . . . → Read More: Short Poem Burger King Innuendo – The Aubergine Version I was tired, I was starving I came upon a Burger King I was served quite ungaily by the undelightful Hayley. Her pale face strangely had all the charm of a whitewashed wall. She was up to her armpits in french fries and greasy bits. . . . → Read More: Burger King Innuendo – Cartoon Poem Toilets. Love them or loathe them, you’d be a fool not to know where they are in a city as big as London. With the sad decline of the wonderfully euphemistic ‘Public Convenience‘ the world weary and fluid-full traveller can often find himself in tricky and, let’s face it, sometimes trickly situations. Councils . . . → Read More: Toilets During the gloom-laden month of January those of us with seasonally-affected businesses often wonder why they have chosen their path. To the one person business dependent on all of his wits and imagination to pull in enough money to pay the bills, hordes of commuters streaming across Waterloo Bridge to work in other people's . . . → Read More: This Depressed Feeling – It’s January Gloom, isn’t it? Simon Ellinas: Caricaturist and Cartoonist Blog Ha! (Humorous Arts) was a magazine I published in the mid-nineties. With the absence of Punch and the UK edition of Mad, it seemed like there was a gap in the market for a magazine that catered for these two tastes. It also seemed to be a good . . . → Read More: The magazine published by the London Caricaturist |
 
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