and gods stay quiet

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This place called Assam in the north east of India recorded its worst ever drought this year, so the paper told me.

Next to the story was this picture of a frail man, sitting in a parched paddy field, praying for rain.

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Guess god ain't returning calls right now.

Irrational Fear # 2 - Henry and the Maggot

Following on from the last post, this one tells the tale of Henry and the maggot. I did a few with Henry in them, including one where he runs naked through a forest yodelling. He mostly - but not always - ended up dead in these tales, poor fella. Its all kind of sad I guess, but, on the plus side, don't we all end up dead anyway?








Let me know if you want to see any more of these.

Irrational Fear # 1

The theme for Illustration Friday this week reminded me of some cartoons I drew many many years ago when I was a disturbed teenager. I did a series of these called Irrational Fear. Now, having grown up into a suitably disturbed adult, I feel ready to share some of these with you. This particular one was inspired by a song by a band called Elephants for Breakfast:

There once was a small room which contained a collection of tablets.
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A man with big eyebrows offered me a selction of the best ones he had.
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He said they are all very good and that they would stop me feeling sorry for myself.
But I declined his kind offer and headed straight to the window. There I saw something much more interesting than a few
tablets.
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From the window opposite I saw someone looking at me.
He had such big, big eyes!
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He seemed to recognise me from somewhere, but I can't quite remember ever having sees such big, big eyes before.
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Then I realised that the man had no eyelids. That he must be able to see most everything that is going on.
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Seeing the man made me glad that I know darkness, for clearly he knows none.