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Caricatures and Cartoons

Four fingers or three?

Should a cartoon character have Four fingers? Or should I go back to the cartoon standard of three?

Caricatures and Cartoons by Simon Ellinas

My Singing Career!

The new series of the X-Factor is a reminder that there is a dearth of original talent out there. By ‘original’, of course, I mean anything that Simon Cowell and Co would reject. For they are after unoriginal clones of existing superstars. I doubt that, if Tom Waits had never existed, they would put someone [...]

What IS it about the colour PINK?

Here’s the founder of another networking company, 4 Networking:

Apparently he had been working for Domino’s Pizzas before founding 4 Networking.
As we all know, Ecademy was founded in a splurge of tomato sauce in Pizza Express
Note the PINK SHIRT.
Who was first? Brad or Thomas Power?
I don’t know Brad, so I can’t ask him. But I have [...]

My Ideal Job!

Over the years I have had several jobs, apart from cartooning.
My first ever job was during the school holidays working in the Bally shoe shop in Hampstead as a callow 16 year old. Quite what the well-heeled celebs of NW3 thought of being served by a lack-lustre, spotty, long haired schoolboy, I suppose I’ll never [...]

Recent Work by The London Caricaturist!

Here are a few things which have been keeping me busy recently. Click to enlarge images then use your ‘back’ button to return to the blog.