About
I make illustrated books for children, adults, and people who still laugh at the wrong bit.
My books range from playful children’s stories to darkly funny illustrated books for adults. They usually begin with a simple idea, then wander off into the kitchen and come back wearing someone else’s slippers.
I am interested in the small, odd moments that sit quietly in ordinary life: a family meeting about a cat, a strange object in the hallway, a sentence that sounds innocent until you read it twice.
Some of my books are suitable for children. Some are very much for adults. The difference is usually whether the unsettling thing is wearing a party hat or looking directly into your soul.
The aim is simple: make illustrated books that feel funny, strange, warm, and slightly wrong in a way you can still give as a present.
Facts
- BIRTHPLACE
- A very normal place, officially
- CREATIVE TIME
- 11 AM – unreasonable o’clock
- CONSULTANTS
- 2 cats & 2 dogs
- COFFEE INTAKE
- Enough to concern a small nurse
- STATUS
- Pretending I have a plan
- 1
- Books
- 2
- Dogs Consulted
- 847
- Cups of Tea
- ∞
- Strange Ideas
How I Create
A repeatable process for making things slightly off-kilter.
STEP 01
Notice Something Unremarkable
Start with something ordinary: a cat, a family, a list, a punchbag, a cup of tea. Look at it for too long until it becomes suspicious. Do not explain this to people at parties.
STEP 02
Make It Worse, Politely
Add a small problem. Then let everyone respond to it in the most calm, serious, and completely inadequate way possible. This is where the flip chart usually appears.
STEP 03
Draw Until It Behaves
Make simple illustrations, remove anything unnecessary, and let the characters look as if they have just remembered an unpaid bill. If the drawing looks too pleased with itself, take its shoes away.
Get the books
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They are available on Amazon, where they stand quietly in a digital line pretending not to know each other.
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