Dear Agony Auntie ...

My name is Rick. I only seem to get any attention around hay-making time, and then all people want to do is tie me up. All I want to do is enjoy some sunshine!

Can you help?

By the way, I'm usually full of harvest mice. Can you help with these?

Illustration Friday - Parade

The above parade is 'March Past of the Kitchen Utensils', a scene from Aristophanes' surreal masterpiece 'The Wasps'. The eponymous wasps are in fact jurors, and appear at the lower end of the picture. In fact there's nothing in this piece which shouldn't be there - it's all in Aristophanes.

Dear Agony Auntie,

My name is Rob. For some reason I have a totally undeserved reputation for dishonesty. My friend Nick has the same problem.

Please could you tell us what to do about this?

Illustration Friday - Heirarchy!

The tome which ranked Numero Uno in the heirarchy of un-put-downable books - 'A Concise History of Glue'

Dear Agony Auntie,

My name is Warren. Somehow I always seem to be full of rabbits. Please could you suggest a cure for the problem?

Thanking you in anticipation,

Yours,

Warren + 14,532 bunnies (and numbers rising all the time)

Shrewsbury Aftermath

Just back from the Shrewsbury Cartoon Festival, where I attended dinners where it was not only OK to draw on the tablecloth, but it was expected. I was doing my cartoon (about gherkins) on one side of the table, and explaining that cross-hatching is a calming, almost meditative thing to do...

In the meantime, Steve Bright was doing the following portrait:



I was deeply touched when he presented me with the item, which he had carefully torn from the tablecloth, the following day. He blushed prettily and shuffled his feet.

Dear Agony Auntie,

My name is Wally. For some reason, women seem to treat me as though I'm a prat. Have you any idea why this is?