Mike Smith (Illustrator)

Tag Archives: london

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March 20, 2013 – 9:38 am

Voobavoobacallister

Also tagged adult, behind sofa, blink, boy, busy, child, daddy, diary, eyes, friendly, hour, imagination, made up word, mike, monster, telephone cable, yellow | Comments Off

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July 3, 2012 – 10:16 am

Unamusing museum musing

Also tagged achievement, apollo, biplane, capsule, car, children, diary, earth, emotional, fatherhood, globe, klein bottle, light, meeting, mike, moon rock, plane, science museum, spitfire, steam engine | Comments (4)

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September 26, 2011 – 12:39 pm

On cafes, comics and caviar

Also tagged astroturf, beluga, cafe, caviar, coffee, comics, conversation, diary, earwig, kensington, lawn, listen, loud, mike, ossetra, outside, overhear, phone, rich, shallow, stories, twentysomething | Comments Off

London to Singapore

September 21, 2011 – 1:14 pm

Posting the sketchbook images from Beijing the other day made me realise it’s exactly four years since Caz and I made the trip from London to Singapore by train. We left on 17th September, arrived on 13th November, then spent 6 weeks in New Zealand. I thought it would be nice to post each page here on the same day four years later.

The text was intended just to jog my memory for writing it all up later, but of course I never did. Some of the drawings are truly awful but because I’m a completeness freak I’m going to scan them all.

Er, including the first one where the pencil got smudged into oblivion. No-one will ever know what we got up to in Minsk.

Travel diary, London-Singapore by train: Minsk and Moscow

Travel diary, London-Singapore by train: Moscow

Also tagged belarus, minsk, moscow, pencil, sketch, train, travel | Comments Off

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April 15, 2011 – 9:03 am

Spring forward.

Also tagged car, caz, diary, friends, jam, journey, leaves, mike, miles per hour, north circular, plane, road, slow, spring, sunset, traffic, travel, tree, visit | Comments (4)

240111

February 8, 2011 – 12:39 pm

No man is an island.

Also tagged box, children, clown, countryside, delighted, escalator, isolated, journey, kids, look, ma show, mike, people, pretend, school, slow, think, train, travel, traveling, trees, wave | Comments (1)

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June 10, 2010 – 10:52 am

Macmillan prize private view and memories. Roger Hargreaves was a good mate of mine you know.

Also tagged caz, child, children, coat rack, envelope, foyles gallery, interested, macmillan prize, memory, mike, mr men, mr small, people, picture book, pile, post office, private view, publisher, registered, rejection, roger hargreaves, tap, think, time machine, typewriter, win, wine, winner, writing | Comments (6)

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November 25, 2009 – 8:28 pm

We spend the weekend in London and Caz has a special day in Gosh Comics.

Also tagged book, bus, caz, comic, diary, glasses, gosh comics, graphic novels, green, middle aged everything, mike, nerd, nerdy, pop, really nonsense, shelf, shelves, shop, speccy, special day whatever, specs, sweetshop | Comments (5)

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September 14, 2008 – 2:21 pm

Conversation with smug wealth couple in pub in Gumley

Also tagged beer, boat, comic strip, conversation, crick tunnel, diary, foxton locks, grand union canal, gumley, husbands bosworth, journey, kilworth, laborers, labourer, leicestershire, market harborough, piss off, property, pub, rich, second home owners, smug couple, watford gap, wealthy, yacht, yelvertoft | Comments Off

140108

January 22, 2008 – 7:11 pm

Also tagged battery charger, belsize park, boat, clang, diary, dogs, electrician, flood, hammer, lamp, light, locum vet, lottery, mike dolan, oil, pilates, rain, saluki | Comments Off

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September 27, 2007 – 10:11 am

blog170907-train-minsk-moscow

Also tagged berlin, brest, bus, diary, dog, eddie, kgb, kremlin, leaving, minsk, moscow, pencil, portaloo, travel, victoria, vodka, warsaw | Comments Off