A man's journey, part 3

Our man leaves the train and find himself in unknown country. From a hill far away a herdsman worriedly points at him, probably reminding his faithful long legged pig that traveling without a map - although seemingly romantic - is neither big or clever. The pig agrees.

A man's journey, part 2

Our hero takes a rather crowded train. All people have to do all day is sleep and cook pork sausages on the steam coming out of the engine. Unfortunately no one remembered to bring the barbecue sauce.

A man's journey, part 1

Ok, this is an attempt to create a little story out of 5 or 6 completely random doodles drawn in separate situations. Considering everything I draw looks exactly the same it shouldn't be too hard, so let's go.

Our story begins with a young gentleman starting a trip. An older man sitting on top of his well traveled suitcase reminds him of the vast possibilities the journey he is about to undertake present.

A little village

Loads of people, a happy dog, a little church and what seems to be a priest returning from a seminar, only to encounter his long lost love in the square where they spent their childhood together. It could just be a bloke wearing a hat bumping into a complete stranger.

A selection of little people with big noses

Including a very anti-social one that chose to stay on his own at the bottom.

A mixed bunch

Who are these people? What do they do in their free time? What do they like? Has one of them ever played for Rochdale United? All I know is the one on the far right is either a friendly fridge with a handle or a very large piece of luggage.

Pocket accountant

This is a very small and very tidy accountant. Clearly likes plane spotting and collecting thermos flasks. Always handy to have one around.

Mini Michael Howards

I drew quite a lot of little fellas with thick glasses and combovers the other day and had no idea who they were or where they came from - until I realised they looked exactly like Michael Howard, former leader of the Tories. So here are two very small, slightly naked Michael Howards looking at each other.

Octopus

This is a very well brought up octopus. It probably know the right way to hold a variety of cutlery implements, the proper way to address a retired archbishop and the names of all the kings of England, including all the German ones.

Singing delight

A man sings, a chicken with a chick on it's head listens attentively. The chicken could either be extremely polite, entranced by the performance or completely deaf. Hard to tell, really.

Chaps with hats, part 2

Now, this is what we're talking about. A short, monobrowed and slightly psychotic little fella and his mildly puzzled friend. Both wearing flower hats, of course.

Chaps with hats, part 1

They're clearly annoyed. I'm guessing the tall one because he's got an exceedingly outdated floppy fringe/goatee combination, and the short one, well... because he's short. It could always be because they've got no clothes, though.

Very happy little man

A little bit too happy, perhaps...

Napoleonic dudes 04

In the 19th century French toffs top trumps this man would be like Sócrates on the 1982 world cup top trumps: top of every category, but for goalkeeping. Talleyrand, managed not only to survive but made a pretty good living before and during the French Revolution, through to Napoleon's reign and a few kings aftewards. Notice how he keeps his elegant countenance even when performing a little dance.

Napoleonic dudes 03

Not a dude this one. This is supposed to be the big man's missus, Josephine. On the floor we see either a very small lion, a carefully tonsured poodle or one of those funny puppets that street puppeteers make out of used plastic cups and string. Hard to tell.

Napoleonic dudes 02

Fouché, who was kind of around right after the Revolution, through to Napoleon's reign and then afterwards in the Bourbon restoration (not to be confused with the end of the alcohol prohibition in the US).