Life advice from Bluna. Advice No 1: When in doubt, run!

Digging around in my old sketchbooks recently to prepare a show, I was amazed to come across some old drawings.  The whole cartoon thing has been incubating for much longer than I realised…   I don’t know about you, but  I love peeking in other artist’s sketchbooks, so here’s a peek in mine.
I’ve just finished reading Stephanie Calman’s Confession of a Failed Grown-up, which I found hilarious if horribly truthful.    Not by chance she’s also the daughter of another of one of my favourite cartoonists, Mel Calman.  As far as my sketches are concerned, I am most definitely not grown-up!
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Like so many things, looks better unfinished and sounds better in French ?
And here’s the finished etching from the Bluna “Life Advice” series that went with it, available from www.cartebluna.co.uk

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Ronald Searle, Encore! Encore!

Now the great Ronald Searle is with the immortals, in the land flowing with Bollinger and Mumm ….

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Click here to read about Ronald Searle and his wife Monica,  two incredible people who survived against the odds.   Searle survived notorious Japanese POW camps  during the Second World War  and Monica treatment for Breast Cancer in the 1960’s.
My guess is his Cats and other artworks will outlive us all…
Ars longa, vita brevis.