Magazine cover

Brian Noble gives the Bradford Bulls a pep talk.

The Bradford Bulls have been in financial strife and Brian Noble, former coach/Britain coach and now columnist for the mag, was writing something about them...which no one knew what exactly it would be about - making the narrative for the illustration quite tough to come up with. I settled on the pep talk as it was fairly neutral and would be applicable no matter what happened at the time of publication.

The rise of summer rugby

Editorial illustration for Forty-20 Magazine

Quite a tough brief...the editor wanted an illustration to go along with a story about the restructuring of lower level rugby league. After knocking around a few ideas I decided on this picture to show that summer rugby was coming - the most tangible thread to the tale.

This was one of the earlier ideas trying to capture the facts - the notion of the pyramid structure and the national amateur level holding up the top level game. But it wasn't working for me 

CD artwork: The Slow Blade

Band 'The Slow Blade' asked me to design a weird cd cover for them. The album title was taken from the film Dune, (luckily I knew it quite well). I love the visuals in that film, so it was a fertile ground for ideas. I drew a funny version of a Guild Navigator, adding the quintessential slow blade...the cheese knife!

Guild navigator. Lynch is one of my favourite 'imaginers'  (to paraphrase Mr Garth Merenghi)

  

Getting laid

Just for a laugh really.

Chronicle cartoon: Plans are in the offing to bring a burlesque club to Barnsley

Chronicle cartoon: A scooter dealer had diversified...into selling air rifles from the same premises!

Parky gets Narky (again)

A cartoon for the Chronicle. The topic was that Michael Parkinson had been given a new TV show, so I went for the most memorable image that people would know him from...and just suped it up a bit. The best part was that it drew a response from Parkinson himself - (who had threatened to sue the Chronicle a year or so earlier over an article we were running):

Sweet!

The meeting of Prince Charles

Concept Ferret

Concept Ferret

New Ferret, complete with mobile phone for the final touch

Original Ferret

I was asked to redesign a logo for the Barnsley Chronicle. 'The Ferret' is a collection of funnies from the week. The editor needed something more modern, but we we needed something quite homely and pleasant. For this I chose a hand drawn aesthetic.
Coincidentally Prince Charles was due to visit the Chronicle so it was decided to tie the Ferret 'relaunch' in with this visit by getting him to choose a design. As the visit was imminent I had a weekend to turn out four or five designs, but at least he seemed to find them quite amusing!