Fancy a Holiday?

Winter blues got you down? I hear Saturn's moon of Titan is lovely this time of year.

Above my desk there's an old art deco postcard advertising holidays to the Basque Coast. I got it while I was on holiday there in Biarritz a couple of years ago. I love its simple, art deco style, and the romance and elegance of travel that the image engenders, so I decided to borrow it and its layout for a more retro-futuristic holiday poster: the kind that would appear in a Venusian travel agent's office in the 1920s... if the 1920s had ever happened on Venus.

And let's face it, it's not every day you see a squid-faced woman dressed as a flapper.

Grandpa T-Rex...

...wishes you a very Happy New Year!

In Memoriam

My uncle passed away over Christmas after a mercifully short fight with cancer. He was a good man, a genuinely lovely old bloke, and one I'm ashamed to say I didn't know him better. A family death isn't something I'd normally talk about on the public space of a blog, but it was Uncle Bob that I modelled the look of Grandpa T-Rex on, and even took the inspiration for a couple of his cartoons from, especially his fondness for betting on horse racing (and being very very good at it).

I always thought of him when I drew a Grandpa T-Rex cartoon. I still will.

A Christmas Post

Grandpa T-Rex...

...wishes you a very Merry Christmas!

Grandpa T-Rex will return to wish you a Happy New Year. Until then, I wish you the very merriest of Christmases!

Grandpa T-Rex...

...gets exactly what he wants for Christmas.

And I hope that you do too!

For fellow Dilbert fans...

Grandpa T-Rex...

...is reunited with an old work colleague.

Grandpa T-Rex...

...finds a new reading light.