Following on from my last post of… ohh, precisely four years ago… here’s something else we love to do at thecartoonist.net: commissioned fan art for your wall!
This particular poster may be of characters unfamiliar to you, but not for long: these glamourous rockers are the intergalactic popsters “the Tinkling Triangles” by British comic legend……
Hand inked Fan art, part 1
The Familiar Kiwi Villa
If you live in New Zealand you’ll know the Kiwi Villa is part of the landscape’s essence.
Anywhere else a villa is a sprawling home of the wealthy: In America a villa might have columns bunged all over the place and be three stories tall. In days of Rome it was the country mansion complete with……
More Maps- Otahuna Lodge
Some time back Thecartoonist.net was called on to provide a map for the guests at Taitapu’s luxury Hotel, Otahuna Lodge.
I haven’t looked lately, but this place was popping up on lists for the elite all over the world. If I recall it won top awards in one of those tasty……
The Ol’ 404 error page-when your website wakes up with Amnesia
So! for the first time ever- your website is givin’ ya 404 errors.
Whut th’ heck? That page USED to be there…
Izzit Brain Freeze?
An attack from hostile cosmic communist agents?
Is the internet developing digital alzheimers disease?
Has that mad, mundanely manky site manager made a mighty muckup?
There’s potential for any of these,……
Some folks prefer PAINT- logo for Te Whakapono Trust
It’s unusual in this era to have painted artwork for your corporate look instead of pantone-picked vectors.
As an artist, corporate logos aren’t my usual fare either- One client wanted something a bit special though, a logo captured in Paua shell and Hokitika greenstone.
That sort of thing’s a job for a painter rather than……
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NZ’s Black billed – most endangered Gull in the World
You’ve probably seen this wee bloke but mistaken him for his more common cousin, the Red Billed… who shared many of your school lunches over the years.
The black billed is a little slimmer than the red, with a longer beak. Also, while the red is classified as “declining,” the black is “Critical” and has the……
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The Black Teal- Daffy’s special forces cousin from Kiwiland
Known to hang around in the same military bars as the outspoken Aussie Coot, the New Zealand Scaup is a diving specialist.
Not often seen in an aqualung, he prefers to dive unassisted to show off his true specialty.
Amongst locals he comes under a variety of aliases. Some know him as papango, also……
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Can you judge a book by a GOOD cover?
Yup. Sure can.
(This is an approximation of the second of ten posts that went missing in action. I hope they come back alive, but until then…)
Robinne Weiss has been using the Cartoonist for a while now, and it can only cast a good reflection on her writing, I think.
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There’s GREEN in them thar Hills- TASMANIA
Every now and then ya just have to kick about with the client in person.
Just this morning TheCartoonist staff arrived back in town from meeting with a client in Tasmania.
After a dry spring they’ve just been deluged with rain and the place was GREEN!
Christchurch, NZ’s great-green garden city is more……