Everything's gonna be cool this Christmas?

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A piece commissioned for the 'Christmas Day Edition' of Forward.

But God can be funny (at a cocktail party while listening to a good God-themed joke)

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I poured my heart out. I poured my heart out. It evaporated. See.

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This one's on pretty much constant rotation too at the moment, and equally apt for the above piece.

And even if it rains here, it's much worse in the north

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What you give, or give out, is the only thing that really counts

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It'll probably come as no surprise to you that I'm quite a fan of Joel Waldfogel.

You're a slave to yourself and you don't even know

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An interesting article about being jew-ish and some more info about the S.H.I.T list which Prozac seems so keen to get on.

Hey, you need an A for effort, but I give you a D for delivery, my friend

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Now I don't mean to hate December...

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My cartoon for this month's One in Four magazine.

And you said it was like Christmas, but you were wrong

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Oh I wish I had a river, I could skate away on

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This one's also part of my Eleven Kinds of Loneliness series.

Sleigh bells ring, are you listening?

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When you sleep, I will creep, into your thoughts like a bad debt that you can't pay. Take the easy way and give in.

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Am really chuffed to have been given the opportunity to contribute a cartoon and also do the front cover for next month's One in Four magazine which is out on December 7th.

You can pick up a copy in libraries, GP surgeries, primary care trust facilities, universities, and Mind charity shops.

Or even better, SUBSCRIBE, and with a bit of luck The Big B might invite me back again.

It's cool to love your family

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My favourite uncle has been visiting recently. I'm sure he represents a recognisable strand in the taxonomy of Unc-dom, but for me he is truly one of a kind.

I'm feeling the pull, dragging me off again

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A cartoon and review done for an event at the Freud museum.

Can't you see I'm a fool in so many ways?

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I have yet to actually watch an episode of X Factor from start to finish. That said, even I can spot two off-key twonks a mile off. And this time, even Hitler agrees with me.

[Birthday card for Juliet. Happy birthday Jules.]

I think it's going to rain today

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And I have got nothing to offer you, no-no-no-no-no. Just this heart deep and true (which you say you don't need)

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Last Sunday I was at the overwhelmingly good and varied Comiket, part of the Comica Festival at the ICA.

Gareth Can-I-Borrow-Your-Toilet Brookes organised a cartoon wall as part of the event: a multi-paneled wall à la Raphael on which Comiketicipants were asked to riff off a randomly assigned line from Watchmen, in charcoal. (Although some people cheated by smuggling in their own art materials and colours, the cads!)

How to fight loneliness? Smile all the time

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One thing I now have in common with Chris Ware: both of us doing product placements for this man.

[A commissioned piece for Litro magazine.]

I don't know what I can save you from

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Hello innocence. Though it seems like we've been friends for years, I'm finishing

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Last weekend's Women in Comics Conference was ace.

Sarah McIntyre has done a good linky-round-up of the event on her LiveJournal blog. As has Jennie Gyllblad.

I hope you profited from this bulletin and it stabilized your land

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I shall avenge the death of all romance

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Vulnerable around me

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To be precise: I'm reading (for the second time) Gavin Hopps's magisterial study of Morrissey, The Pageant of His Bleeding Heart, whilst declaring my dependence.

I know what you think, you think this film is about you. Well, it isn't about you, it isn't about you

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Seen any good films recently?

And even the nights, they could get better

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For what it's worth: happy World Mental Health Day.

I was looking for a job, and then I found a job, but...

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Where do you go when you're lonely, where do you go when you're blue? Where do you go when you're lonely? I will follow you

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Reading an incredible book of short stories by the late great Richard Yates at the moment.

Prozacgate

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When Gordon Brown does finally reveal the the fact that, like the rest of the nation, he's on anti-depressants, we hope he'll do so on Prozacville.

Hungamunga

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Had a table flogging Prozac at last weekend's Hungamunga festival.

After handing out my Heaven-Knows-I'm-Miserable-Now questionnaire, I then asked the Hungamungees to draw me some pretty pictures.

Some of them actually did (click on the thumbnails below to enlarge).

Put all of your hopes in just one envelope

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Prozac, courtesy of Photo***ia.

Who is the lamb and who is the knife?

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If you'd like your own damned chandelier and you have 20,000 quid to spare, you can check one out here.

Yo! We should start a book club!

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I love you more

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Thanks to everyone who voted for my Michael Jackson FUN? monument over at Bustler/Archinect. If you'd never heard of the competition, that's because you didn't see the international coverage of it in...um, Turkey.

Things got a little bit sticky on the Comment's Board at one point, when it looked like I might actually carry away the much coveted glow-in-the-dark T-shirt, but in the end it was won by this young lady.

Quant à moi, ca ne va plus très bien

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A piece I did for the WHO's World Suicide Prevention Day.

A pity they couldn't prevent this kid from taking his life recently.

He got monkey finger, he shoot coca-cola

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Yes, I will resort to begging for votes if it's going to win me a glow-in-the-dark Michael Jackson T-shirt.

I am now on the People's Choice short-list for my MJ Monument over at Bustler/Archinect. You can vote here, no sign-up required this time.

Give me the finger, please.

Overstanding is the key

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For those of you who can't be arsed (or don't have the flexibility of spine) to crane your neck 180º to read the upside-downness of this, you can check things out from Prozac's perspective by clicking here.

Yes yes yes, how effervescently meaningless

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This is a very sensitive subject

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Just finished reading Rosie Alexander's Folie a Deux. Brilliant.