Old Man with a nose

There was an Old Man with a nose, Who said, "If you choose to suppose, That my nose is too long, You are certainly wrong!" That remarkable Man with a nose.

E.Lear, 1846

Mental drill

There are three methods of learning. The first - and the least pleasant and outdated one - is when the teacher makes you learn something by heart without understanding.

Young lady of Ryde

There was a Young Lady of Ryde,Whose shoe-strings were seldom untied; She purchased some clogs, And some small spotty dogs, And frequently walked about Ryde.

E.Lear, 1846

Hooray! The first snow hit the ground this morning. Now it's going to start all over, again.

An old man with a beard

There was an Old Man with a beard, Who said, "It is just as I feared!-- Two Owls and a Hen, Four Larks and a Wren, Have all built their nests in my beard!"

E.Lear, 1846

Gulls on poles

Alla leaves radio “Alla”

Billboard magazine

Suntanned devil

"I forgot to use the suntan lotion and burned as a lobster" (russian colloquial expression)

Lots of violence today

Today's cartoon was about the Mikhail Beketov, a violently beaten up (and mutilated!) journalist who suffered for doing his job. Story by Olaf Koens, photograph is from RIA Novosti archive :

After two years of painful reviving he hopes recent beatings of Oleg Kashin will attract public attention to problem of violence against journalists.

Honza's New car highlights

Highlights from the "Honza's New Car" 12-spread children's book I created during my course at Kingston Uni. The book was highly commended at Macmillan children's books competition in London in May 2010. Here's a link to the full book on Issuu.

Killing Time book highlights

Highlights from the “Killing Time” 12-spread book I created during my course at Kingston Uni in February 2010.