The one that got away

... and ironically it's a mousetrap. 

This was supposed to illustrate a story on a pyramid scheme in Hong Kong where they lure Mainland Chinese in and rip them off. The thing is they went to great lengths to dodge the term pyramid scheme so the feeling was we might get sued if we ran the illo. 

Shame, I was pretty pleased with it.

Bondage

This illustration was for the Review section of the South China Morning Post. The story was about bondage in literature.

Dr Robot

A Health Post cover from a few week's ago for the South China Morning Post. The obvious way to go with this wld be to have a robotic hand holding a scalpel, but I liked the idea of having the stitches as binary code instead .. bit more subtle. The argument against it was that some people might not get it. If I was to come across something that I didn't immediately get, I'd think, "but hang on, someone has published it so it must make sense," and look further. Classic case in point, Gary Larsson. Many times I didn't get Larson at first look but as we all know, with him, there was always a payoff if you put in the time to figure it out.

Health Post also went with my suggested heading, so i was pretty pleased with that too.

Vandalizing artwork

This is always fun, tweaking established artwork to illustrate a story. The first one, The Last Supper, is my favorite. The story was about a huge international christian convention being held in South Africa. 200 Chinese were all booked to go but right as they were leaving they were all detained, passports confiscated or put under house arrest, so we took Da Vinci's The Last Supper and photoshopped several of the disciples out.

This one's cute too. It reminds me off Terry Gilliam's Monty Python animations, mostly because of the lipstick in her hand, I think. (That's some serious kerning on the headline!)