The Cartoonist

Saturday, April 3, 2004

Stamped. Celebrate the Century. Great stamps. Thanks to Mone. 8:07:08 AM     |

Friday, April 2, 2004

Shop's Open. Oh yes, we are a nation of shopkeepers. You can now order Bishop and MI5 T-Shirts and coffee mugs online. All reasonably priced. So buy, buy, buy. More products to follow. Order now, before they're sold out. Buy and consume. 3:29:14 PM     |

Gone Shopping. This is a fantastic exhibition at the University of Oxford: A Nation of Shopkeepers, Trade Ephemera from 1654 to the 1860. Shop Signs, Trade Cards, Bill Headings, Premises. Wonderful. 11:37:25 AM     |

Money Matters. Dough! Make it $360,000 an episode or we quit the series, say Springfield Six - The Independent. 9:27:28 AM     |

Thursday, April 1, 2004

Design. A Medical Posters Gallery. Nice. 2:00:01 PM     |

Lena. A Marlene Dietrich exhibition at Stadtmuseum Hagen (English/German). 8:30:55 AM     |

Models. Dan Thompson and his Batmodels. Update. Looks as if good old Dan has been boingboinged; his website returns a 'This account has been suspended because it has gone over the bandwidth limit.' However, lots of thanks to BoingBoing for mentioning me. Don't worry - Batmodels should be up again soon. I hope; because it's fab. Update 2: Strange. The site was up yesterday and today; now it's down again. Dan should switch to a proper ISP. And no, this is not an April fool's joke: the Batmodels website does exist! 8:14:59 AM     |

Wednesday, March 31, 2004

It was sunny and warm today. I'm thinking about getting Bishop T-Shirts printed ... ? Anybody interested? Update: I'll probably handle it through cafepress. Are there any, perhaps better, alternatives out there? 6:13:44 PM     |

Look, look. Type Designer Erik Spiekermann is now running his own weblog, Spiekerblog. Powered by iBlog. Via Schockwellenreiter. 2:17:59 PM     |

Logos. I know, I've already blogged them ages ago. But they are still expanding and regularly updating their website: La Logotheque. Downloadable company logos, all in illustrator format. Fab. 1:14:09 PM     |

And Now for Some Proper Art. Philippe Druillet. There's an entry on Lambiek's Comiclopedia about him; then a small gallery, and his William Hope Hodgson illustrations. I saw some of his originals at the Brussels Centre de la Bande Dessinee and they're enormous. Not one of his drawings is under at least A2 in size. 12:54:08 PM     |

Is it Art? Biro Web. Via Ronsens. 12:31:07 PM     |

Why not. The Man from U.N.C.L.E. comic book covers. 12:21:06 PM     |

Tuesday, March 30, 2004

More Dinky. I've added a few more spreads to Dinky catalogue No.6. With lots of ballpoint pen marks, sadly. 4:02:27 PM     |

Tintin at Sea. Nice exhibition at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich. 2:24:49 PM     |

Cruising. A Panama Steamship Line Brochure. Fab. Via Coudal. 8:10:46 AM     |

This is Pop. The online magazine Her Majesty's Secret Servant. Bond, Bond, Bond. 7:42:46 AM     |

Globes and Stripes. The history of the IBM logotype. 7:31:22 AM     |

Monday, March 29, 2004

Got a Movie in me Pocket. Pocketmovies. Fan-tas-tic. Especially Guernica. Thanks to Reimund. 6:24:14 PM     |

Big Fellows. The Elephant Encyclopedia. Via Koewi. 11:10:24 AM     |

New York. Ligne Claire was in New York. And brought back some nice pictures. Really nice. 10:31:15 AM     |

Spectrum is Green. A few stills from the new Captain Scarlet CGI series. Looks promising. 10:07:11 AM     |

Toys Art Us. Fantastic toys at Critterbox. Fab. 9:57:25 AM     |

Sunday, March 28, 2004

This is your Bishop Information Minister speaking. Enough repeats for today. The stupid person known as The Cartoonist will be back tomorrow. I'll bugger off now, crawling back into my damp hole in the Garden, underneath the pond, where that silly prat has ordered me to stay. I've had enough anyway. I'll go back into politics. I could easily become a spin doctor. See ya. 3:40:21 PM     |

A Repeat - Lawrence Sterne [5]. The LIFE and OPINIONS of TRISTRAM SHANDY, Gentleman. This is how online literature can be presented with just a little bit of effort. The tristramshandyweb is beautiful. Just beautiful. 3:30:34 PM     |

A Repeat -The Mookse and the Gripes [4]. Joyce. I've set up a webpage dedicated to my Finnegans Wake illustrations. 3:25:16 PM     |

The Bell Rock Website. [3]. Bellrock. This is a typical British understatement: A Reference Site for Stevenson's Bell Rock Lighthouse. Man, this site rocks! 60 pages of chronology, old paintings, old technical and architectural drawings - it's fab! 3:20:26 PM     |

A Repeat - The Saint French Cover Illustrations [2]. The Saint. In French. Brilliant website about the French editions of Leslie Charteris' The Saint novels. Articles and a huge big cover gallery. Further information about good old Simon Templar can be found at saint.org 3:17:05 PM     |

A Repeat - Belphegor [1]. YesYesYes, I know, I have blogged him before. But I just came across this big Belphegor photo gallery. And the comic, the book and the posters are here. 3:11:15 PM     |

This is your Bishop Information Minister speaking. The person known as The Cartoonist has been busy walking The Streets of London [MP3, 4MB] together with his uncle from Hamburg, who was so kind to supply him with the 1960's issues of 'film'. So I'm simply going to post a few repeats from September and order you to check out the Cartoonist's archives! The stupid bugger (aka The Cartoonist) will be back tomorrow. 3:04:32 PM     |