In Western Europe we take holidays on the Mediterranean, we hear about migrants attempting to cross it, we imagine our…
Forty-three years well-spent
When I was seven years old, I passed into another world, and I have never fully returned to this one.…
Animal friends
Putting animal heads on the characters in cartoons is a widespread and long-established device—as I very recently noted with respect…
A public meditation
Charlie Cawood is going places. I mean, I certainly hope he is going places in his career, but that’s not…
Hurtfully real
Paula Rego’s lumpen figures, often so sturdy their proportions seem dwarf-like, have such presence, such immediacy, that it’s easy to…
Beautiful, beautiful violence
Many comics today feature anthropomorphic animals, or animal-headed humans, as do animated cartoons, prose fiction and other media. Anyone writing…
Now’s the time
Time is an important theme for now. Wait, what did I just write? For the concept of ‘now’ it seems…
