Friday, May 9, 2025

Limericks and Me – A Love Affair

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  “Good Heavens Mr. Tubb, what are you playing at?”   Writing  about a poetic form, normally associated with puerile content involving old m...
Saturday, March 12, 2016

My Life with MAD Magazine, Don Martin, Sergio Aragones & Antonio Prohías

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Apparently, Fans of MAD Magazine, of whom I consider myself one, never forget the first edition of the magazine they encounter.  Well I can...
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Sunday, November 29, 2015

Ten Years of The Children’s Book Festival

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October 14 th 2005 - 0515 hrs, A Lonely Poet boards a train taking him from Cork to Dublin … OK, this is a slight exaggeration. I wa...
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Saturday, July 12, 2014

New Picture Books - Four Wacky Tales & The Dog Of Edward Aloysius Grey

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This Blog has been neglected far too long... I shall now make amends by telling you all about my latest writing and illustrating Exercise.....
Wednesday, March 21, 2012

200 Years Since the Birth of Mr Lear

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As a practitioner of the art of turning the world upside down using verse and illustrations, it would be churlish and infantile of me, espec...
Sunday, February 26, 2012

Sherlock Holmes Related Post 3 - How Cumberbatch's Holmes Survived the Fall, The Clue?

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According to Steven Moffatt, there is a clue in the final episode of Sherlock that helps solve the, 'How Did Sherlock Survive?'  Que...
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Friday, February 17, 2012

Sherlock Holmes Related Post 2 - House of Silk, Irregulars, Sidney Paget, Holmes related Cartoon

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In the world of Modern-Day versions of Sherlock Holmes, Anthony Horowitz’s House of Silk has been pushed into the category of old news, than...