My book “The Office Manual,” (Two Heads, UK, 1993), featured illustrations in a style I think of as “battered line,” looking like something Xeroxed a dozen times. This one, “The Evolution of Office Work,” depicts the drudgery of working through the
"The History Of Love," one of the woodcut-style illustrations from my book "The Love Manual," (Two Heads, UK, 1995) and "Dating, Mating, Relating" (Longmeadow, US, 1995). The Love Manual became quite popular in the UK, possibly due to a double-page
Around 1980, before I learned how to recreate the look of a woodcut without actually carving one, I made this real woodcut for a church whose choir I sang in for several years. I don't believe they ever used it.
“The Cat In Art,” a brush illustration for my book “Cat’s Eye View” (Two Heads, UK, 1994), “The Cat Manual” (Longmeadow, US, 1995), supposedly showing how the cat has been depicted in different ages. I enjoyed researching the various styles of art.
“The first and only experiment with guide cats for the blind,” a brush illustration for my book “Cat’s Eye View” (Two Heads, UK, 1994), “The Cat Manual” (Longmeadow, US, 1995). I was already thoroughly experienced in Illustrator by this time, but I’
Logo for my magazine column, “Ask Smudge” (1996), in which Smudge answers pets’ letters with jaded and sarcastic responses. Never sold.
Brush illustration to announce the birth of our daughter Georgia, 1999.
The book I planned to write and illustrate after “The Office Manual” (1993), “The Cat  Manual” (1995), and “The Driver’s Manual” (1996), was “Care and Feeding of the Human Male” (1997).  This is one of its illustrations, in scratchboard. U
The book I planned to write and illustrate after “The Office Manual” (1993), “The Cat Manual” (1995), was “The Driver’s Manual” (1996). These illustrations were of supposedly important cars throughout history, the Hupmobile Zeppelin, the Heinkel-Ben
"The Tudor Style," test page of The Stylebook , an idea of mine for a directory of the major styles of art and design throughout history, from around 1980. Watercolors and inks. Other styles would have been treated in the same way, showing clothing
The London house I grew up in, pen and ink, in the Victorian style typical of magazines immediately pre-halftone (1890-1900), which I loved. Probably drawn around 1980 from a photo. The hedges were a little neater when my father was around to trim t
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