When I was blogging from the train the other week I meant to mention this piece too:

Mainly to get a reaction from @Hinchcliffe.

It’s a flyer for a Jason Chalker show, but it was just the Snoopy as Red Baron thing that drew my attention. I’ve always drawn a straight line from Snoopy’s flights of fancy to the dizzy heights of Calvin & Hobbes. Back in my metal days when most of my friends had Maiden and Anthrax going on, my own leather jacket featured a full back acrylic painting of Calvin and Hobbes.

I did go through the horns ‘n’ demons phase, but as much as a good piece of album art touched me it was always the stronger narrative that won out and I’ve always believed there’s something more real in the tale of a small boy and his tiger than even most of the literature I studied.

Than again I think Watership Down is a vast improvement on Homer*.

*The original one – no eyes, no overbite.

So this made me sit up a little straighter:

Not because I have a lot of cables under my desk (I do), but because I wrote a scene last week that is almost – almost – this brought to life.

It’s only a first draft so she may not survive, but it was nice to see her up and about briefly. Even if she was cheating on me in someone else’s brain.

I love these three posters by Katie Waters for three of my favourite films:

I wonder if she could be persuaded to do more…