tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21563966492074840902023-11-16T08:00:49.118+00:00Hawker's PotHawker’s Pot seeks to entertain, but only because he can no longer remember what he came here for in the first place.Hawker's Pothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02600424585735305513noreply@blogger.comBlogger314125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2156396649207484090.post-23784065456678149252019-03-13T18:24:00.001+00:002019-03-13T18:24:55.446+00:00New Website
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<span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Here you can see galleries of my work including cartoons for children, puzzle
trails, illustration work and books. And Victorians, of course. </span><br />
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<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike>Hawker's Pothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02600424585735305513noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2156396649207484090.post-35619584128124350402019-01-10T20:45:00.001+00:002019-01-10T20:59:24.328+00:00File Under “Misses”<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFBvleCHe7w6dnH4GRMi87aXxeXQ_ncpJG25Uh5bfOWRuzBmioApb6tQvPM20MX5u6ipSuZfvQ_j33fNGfYqcymjt5VPJF5weL1DpoPMPKPMo43ikryaoRZulyoHO_il8-50B0sH0hRBE/s1600/Bill+Jones+Sick+Transit.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br /></a><span style="font-family: "baskerville old face" , "serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; margin: 0px;">Here are some cartoons from last year that
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face" , "serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "baskerville old face" , "serif"; font-size: 18.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black;">and here is a drawing I did for the CCANW
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cards at Crafts Alive: The Gloucestershire Guild at Rodmarton Manor at the beginning of September:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face" , "serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; margin: 0px;">I have spent the last few weeks writing and
illustrating a Puzzle Trail around Rodmarton Manor, an extraordinary Arts and
Crafts house near Cirencester. The Puzzle Trail will be part of an event called
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Crafts Alive: The Gloucestershire Guild
at Rodmarton Manor</i> which takes place between Wednesday 5<sup>th</sup> and
Sunday 9<sup>th</sup> September, and includes exhibitions by makers from the
Gloucestershire Guild of Craftsmen and others, workshops, talks and a puppet
show. There is also a Jousting Tent (but I’m not sure how much jousting will be
going on it). Tickets are £8 and available <a href="https://guildcrafts.org.uk/event/crafts-alive-the-gloucestershire-guild-at-rodmarton-manor/" target="_blank">here</a> and on the door. There's more information </span><a href="https://guildcrafts.org.uk/exhibitions/crafts-alive-gloucestershire-guild-rodmarton-manor-5-9-september-2018/" target="_blank">here</a> .</div>
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built and furnished entirely by hand by local craftsmen using local stone and
timber. As part of my research, I was lucky to be taken around the house and
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unusual details and interesting stories connected to the house. </span></span></div>
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I found the enormous variety of answers to our six simple repeated questions utterly fascinating. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">In other news, Miserable Malcolm has returned from his
pleasant trip to the Blue Walnut Cafe in Torquay for Big Poetry and
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will be performing the whole of “The Hair Show” – hair being a topic very close
to Miserable Malcolm’s head – and the wonderful <a href="http://www.tinasederholm.com/" target="_blank">Tina Sederholm.</a> (Tickets £10,
£8.50 advance. More details <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1547861325298477/?active_tab=discussion" target="_blank">here</a>.<span id="goog_839906346"></span><span id="goog_839906347"></span>)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Woo-hoo! Exciting news! I have a cartoon in
Private Eye this week (no. 1461). And I’m even more excited about this than the
two Puritans pictured:</span><br />
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at the “Turn Left at The Albert” fundraiser in Stroud on Sunday 21<sup>st</sup>
of January, alongside Elvis MacGonagall, Jonny Fluffypunk, Tom Johnson and
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">It’s on 24<sup>th</sup> April and I’m giving advance
notice so that you can make sure you’re busy on that day! Or, if you're a
glutton for this sort of punishment, you can book <a href="https://cheltenhampoetryfest.co.uk/write-depressing-poetry-miserable-malcolm/#" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></div>
<br />Hawker's Pothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02600424585735305513noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2156396649207484090.post-40020850765984892062017-12-18T18:40:00.000+00:002018-01-08T19:45:01.269+00:00Evergreen Joke and Algernon at Christmas (and Malcolm too)<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Here’s a cartoon that I suppose could
pass as seasonal (although, to be honest, it’s winter pretty much all year
round at Hawker’s Pot):</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Here are Reverend Hawker and Algernon Swift
stuck in the recent snowfall. (This is as near to a topical cartoon as I have
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are looking for a present to give someone who loves PUNS, please don’t forget that <a href="http://headofzeus.com/books/life-and-times-algernon-swift" target="_blank">TheLife and Times of Algernon Swift </a>contains over two hundred of them, and is available from all good shops as well as online.</span></div>
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are featured in it alongside those of Kirsty Pridgeon and Liz Willis. The
launch event is at Stroud’s<a href="http://www.museuminthepark.org.uk/" target="_blank"> Museum in the Park</a> and starts at 7.30. Entry is
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<o:p></o:p>Hawker's Pothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02600424585735305513noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2156396649207484090.post-11317726763632011762017-11-03T10:09:00.001+00:002018-01-08T19:46:12.451+00:00Hairing About <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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at the Subscription Rooms, and will be signing copies of <i><a href="http://headofzeus.com/books/life-and-times-algernon-swift" target="_blank">The Life and Times of Algernon Swift.</a><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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and entirely unrelated (unless you believe in Cod):<br />
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<br />Hawker's Pothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02600424585735305513noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2156396649207484090.post-13975802691540330622017-07-21T18:39:00.000+01:002017-07-21T18:39:21.242+01:00Puritan Streak<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I sometimes think I’ve got a bit of a Puritan
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