What I dun at Shrewsbury

Firstly, for a much broader coverage than I'm likely to be giving here, go and have a look at Bloghorn, as this is about what I dun at Shrewsbury. Apart from the boozy bits which can safely be left to the imagination.

Well, you see, one of the things they do as part of the festival are these Big Boards. A cartoonist is allocated a board around, erm, well, big anyway and they paint/draw a cartoon on it. Normally they agree to this weeks/months in advance, get their idea approved by the committee and passed by the quarantine inspectorate, draw a mini coloured version of it and have a chance to square up.

However ... lots of International Cartoonists were not there because of the volcanic dust cloud over Shrewsbury, and one of the allocated cartoonists, John Roberts, had to be half a dozen of them at once. This meant he needed someone else to take over his Big Board, which I agreed to in a moment of enthusiasm. This left me about an hour to come up with the gag and the accompanying image, instead of the months of gestation time that everyone else had. No time to square up. Just go for it.

Well, here's the start:


That 'PRINCIPALITY' sign is nothing to do with it. Just an unfortunate juxtaposition. For the caption, you'll have to wait until tomorrow. And a big raspberry to the member of the public who said "You mean when you've thought of one ..." No, actually, make that a V-sign.