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Badger Doesn't Get Out Much | Cute But Sad

I know I've not updated this in ages, but look here! Badger has a new home!

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Rather than continually spam my blogs with Badger stuff forever, I'm setting up a mailing list for a monthly newsletter thing about Cute But Sad stuff so I can get back to blogging about adventures and stuff like bathroom tiling. As such, if you want in, can you email cutebutsad at gmail.com to let me know and then you'll get something cute but sad in your inbox every month. Otherwise, I'm going to start doing weekly updates on cutebutsad.co.uk too!

Happy New Year!, originally uploaded by zombiecoterie.

If I've been a bit quiet online this last month or two, it's not because I've been in a depressive fug but just that I've been working hard to keep on making new comics and learning all kinds of things about space at the National Maritime Museum. Fear not, I'll have lots to tell you about once I've got some more work actually finished.

Thanks so much for being brilliant all this year.

Cute But Sad Website

I've updated the website for Cute But Sad Comics and will keep on adding new stuff on there. There's even a working shop that will let you make orders and won't charge you postage for each item but just once for each order! It's all very exciting. Do tell your friends and have a look and let me know what you think. I'll be updating it with photos from the Greenwich exhibition and will be sure to add something to it each week.

This may well mean I won't be updating this site nearly so often, so subscribe to the RSS for that site instead!

http://www.cutebutsad.co.uk/

Badger at Home

Badger at Home, originally uploaded by zombiecoterie.

Like Badger, I just got in from the rain. It's been a very strange week. Jonathan's father passed away last Friday morning, which was a whole world of strangeness. I'd never realised all the strange logistical things that go into that.

This week, I started my new job at the National Maritime Museum and have been trying to get my head around the work I'll be doing there and also around the whole idea of having an ongoing job again.

Yesterday, I think I agreed to do some outreach type work for a local charity that looks like it might be an interesting bit of work to get involved with and today I've been spending the day taking teenage girls around the Robin Rhode exhibition at the Hayward Gallery and being slightly sad to hear how so many people say they can't draw or that all the joy they have in drawing gets drained out of them in art classes where they're having to stick to a curriculum that says a good drawing is a good likeness.

It's a shame that art at school has to live with those constraints. I got a D for art at GCSE and that very nearly put me off making artwork. It was only that I wanted to write poetry but didn't like reading it enough to do English Literature that I wound up at Art School where I slowly re-connected with some sense of confidence in my ability to produce visual art. I wish more people felt happier with the idea that a drawing isn't necessarily about a likeness as it can be about a feeling, a movement or something emotional rather than feeling like you've failed because you're not inspired by spending ages cross-hatching fruit.

Anyway, I'm rambling. I just got in from doing a radio interview for a comics podcast and radio show - luckily I only talked about pterodactyl porn once we weren't recording any more. I'm not sure if heckling him was such a great move, but we'll see, eh?

Anyway! On Monday, I've got to hang an exhibition of my work at the Greenwich Picturehouse Cinema so I'd better pull my finger out about that, eh? Funny how two weeks ago I didn't have much of a job and suddenly I have three apart from the comics stuff. It's very exciting!