dinosaurs

Posted by Gary Northfield on July 26, 2013

WORLDS COLLIDE! PLANETS CRASHING TOGETHER! UNIVERSES ENTWINED(?)!

Yes! You read it right, for one week only, there’s a BRAND NEW TEENYTINYSAURS story in THE PHOENIX!!!

Disgustingness guaranteed!

“What’s a flippin’ Teenytinysaur?!” I hear you Phoenix readers ask. Well, my dears, it’s a lovely book I wroted about LITTLE DINOSAURS!!!!! I KNOW!!!!!

Wot a cover!

In the book they go on mad adventures, get pooed on, get lost in big dinosaur stomach, swim amongst deep sea monsters, TRY TO FLY TO THE MOON!!! IN SNOT!!! (And if you look carefully, my Phoenix story has plenty to do with the front cover of the book. Don’t let no one tell you that I don’t know what I’m doing!)

Here’s some beautiful scenes from the book…

Eurgh! Dino guts!

Have some of THAT!

Ooh, so beautiful, I could cry. Sniff.

If you haven’t bought a copy yet, then your life is bereft. Truly.

“But”, says the battle-hardened, well-read Teenytinysaurs reader, “what is this ‘PHOENIX’ you keep babbling on about?”. The Phoenix, you ask? Why, it’s only the country’s GREATEST CHILDREN’S WEEKLY COMIC to grace our planet for many decades.

CHOMPY!!!!

It has HUMOUR, ADVENTURE, DERRINGDO, SPACE, JUNGLES, PUZZLES, BUNNIES, MONKEYS, DINOSAURS, PIRATES and BILLIONS of other wonderful comic strips. Ask anyone who has a subscription, minds are guaranteed to be blown. Fact.

What a handsome devil! Good job he’s hiding behind that comic.

Normally, of course, I have a jolly little strip in there called (modestly), Gary’s Garden. It’s a right old laugh with all sorts of loonies lolloping around in my garden each week. I had a tiny break from it all, due to mental exhaustion, but soon my friends GARY’S GARDEN will RETURN!!

Here’s a sneaky peek:

A frog song! Paul McCartney not included.

And if you want to come see me chat and draw about both TEENYTINYSAURS and GARY’S GARDEN, then get yourself down to the Cartoon Museum tomorrow, July 27th from 1 – 2pm! It’s free with admission, but booking is recommended here.

See you soon!

Graffiti Knitting

Posted by Gary Northfield on October 11, 2010

Graffiti Knitting eh, What’s that all about? Little old ladies tagging trains with bits of wool in the dead of night? Well, sort of. Apart from the “old ladies” bit. And maybe skip the “dead of night” bit too. Ok, and maybe they don’t tag trains neither. In fact, why don’t you go read this brilliant article out today in The Guardian, featuring The Fleecestation‘s very own Graffiti Knitter, Deadlyknitshade. That tells you everything you need to know about the little-known art of Yarn Storming…

Interesting to note that the first comment on the knitting article by some humourless know-it-all says, “Been done before”.

Why yes, yes it has been done before. 65 million years before in fact. Check it out:

I painted these dudes at Ally Pally Knitting and Stitching Show whilst I was selling (the soon to be completely sold out) Derek the Sheep books. I was sharing a table with fellow Fleecestation studio mates, the afore-mentioned knitting supremo Lauren O’Farrell and children’s book uber-illustrator Sarah McIntyre, who were selling books and badges like they were going out of fashion.

Trying to tap into a market that catered for both my lovely drawings and knitting, I concocted the above tiny series of on-the-spot watercolours featuring Graffiti Knitted Victims of The Jurassic. I love dinos, but I totally guessed the Jurassic bit, so someone rang their expert friend after I’d just painted the stegosaurus and I was spot on! Woohoo!

I might make these as prints, and if they take off then I might consider Graffiti Knitting victims of the Triassic. The world is my prehistoric oyster.

Teenytinysaurs in the Phoenix!

Graffiti Knitting