Brixton Bricks & Coffee Beans

A few weeks ago i was lucky enough to have my guest-strip run on the Actionman Adam website
http://www.actionmanadam.com/2011/03/brixton-bricks-n-coffee-beans/

I wasn’t sure if I needed to explain the importance of the brick a bit more.

Apparently back in the late 70’s and early 80’s (around the time ‘The Clash’ and ‘The Sex Pistols’ were around) “Margret Thatcher’s Britain was the riot capital of the world. Thatcher may have ruled in Parliament but out on the street it was a different matter. From the first eruption of inner-city rioting in St Paul’s Bristol in 1980 through the July rioting across the country in 1981 to Brixton and Broadwater Farm in 1985 someone some- where was lobbing a brick or petrol bomb at Thatcher.” (IAN BONE). As far as I have been informed carrying a brick around in your pocket was a part of Punk culture as well (but I may be wrong about that).

So the Sniffles & Cough characters love punk music (especially 'The Clash') and always have a brick handy incase of interlopers. In this case the manic dude Greg.

Hopefully that's a little clearer than mud. :)
Enjoy!
Rob

London Calling Parts Two & Three

Hey All,

Here's the conclusion of the 'London Calling' storyline. Kinda weird, but fun!




I remember thinking how the hell would you use a TV station and my favourite NZ rock band Shihad to shoot down an object from outer space. (The main reason being Chris is on Alt-TV and I wanted to incoporate this into the Sniffles n Cough mythos. :D)

Enjoy and see ya soon!
Rob.

Sniffles & Cough : London Calling Part1

I hope you all had a happy and safe 'Guy Fawkes'. Though I've often found myself wondering why we celebrate a guy who tried to blow up the english parliament. Still the people around us had some great fireworks and we were treated to several stunning displays.

Sniffles & Cough : "London Calling" came about as Chris the coffee guy, loves 'The Clash' and often has them blasting out the cobwebs of early morning as he's setting up the coffee cart for the morning's trade.

I warped it a bit and thought maybe we could get the Queen involved somehow, and an adventure was started!

Look for parts two and three soon!
Rob.

Sniffles & Cough in The Lost Episode

This is one that didn't make it into the InUnison magazine for whatever reason just around the time of St Patricks day. Pity it's was one of my favourites for the year. :D




Still to come:
more Sniffles & Cough
and a post-Armageddon report! (eventually! :D)

Yay for short working weeks!
Rob

Girls and they've got Slingshots!

A little while ago Danielle from www.girlswithslingshots.com was going on a trip and called for guest strips for her site while she was away.

It took me a little while but iI came up with the following strip and got Danielle's permission to use it for the InUnison cartoon for that month too, which incidentally happened to be the 'International' themed issue. So this worked in perfectly with Sniffles & Cough being in NZ and GWS being from the States!

Here ya go!
Rob.


P.S. Kiki, this one's for you!

Messerschmitt

Holy moley! I haven't posted all month eeek! Sorry about that!

To compensate here's one of my favourite 'Sniffle & Cough' strips. The Messerschmitt was really fun to draw and I especially like the third panel all 'in your face' with coffee beans!!




Enjoy!
Rob.

Poetic send-off

The first Sniffles & Cough that InUnison printed was the last issue of last year. I came up with the idea of a lament adn was really quite happy about how it turned out.

I scripted the whole strip first (a novelty for me at the time as i usually just plow in and start drawing and worry about the end result later), and the flow & execution are something I'm quite proud of.







Till Next time!
Rob.

First Sniffle... and Cough

So here it starts. This strip was actually created BEFORE the coffee ad but is the one that kicked the whole idea off.

Chris (the coffee dude with the mohawk) loves Punk music and is always singing along with The Clash while making coffee's. So i adapted a little and ended up calling the strip 'Coffee Love'.

This is also the strip that got me the gig in the loacal student magazine InUnison. :)

Enjoy!

Where it all began : Sniffles & Cough

I created a faux ad for the WONDERFUL staff at my local Coffee cart 'Expresso Plus', really just for fun.

While showing the staff there one of my other creations I was then approached by the students doing the Unitec student magazine 'InUnison' about doing a regualr strip for their magazine.

I threw around a couple of ideas and approached them with a student based idea and one based on the strange happenings at the Coffee cart.

The Editor really liked the Coffee cart idea as they are quite identifiable on campus (and their blend of coffee is infamous) and so Sniffles & Cough were born!

I'll be post their strips from time to time including further ad's and things I dream up along the way.

Hope you're having a good week and check back soon for more on :
'Sniffles & Cough'
'Rally Mark'
and all things arty by HotRob. :D

Cheers,
Rob.