In today’s episode it is only Ashley telling me what to draw as Joanna was out playing with her friends.
We are drawing two things – one a sunny side up egg with a top hat doing a little dance number, and secondly a fuzzy monkey riding a purple flying banana. There were some unexpected interruptions by two- and four-legged friends and neighbors and a parade of characters walked through my studio as we were trying to maintain our usual Fellini-esque production standards, therefore 30 seconds from the middle of the video have been left on the cutting room floor, to safeguard the esteemed viewers sanity.
Daddy Draws 3 - the final drawing of the egg and the monkey on the purple banana
For Valentine’s Day 2008 why not use this free little animated GIF graphic in your e-mail or on your website or your myspace or facebook or whatever social networking site you like to use?
light version for use on light or white backgrounds
I have just added a whole bunch of cartoons and illustrations to my Flickr Stream. Starting today I will keep updating my Flickr sets on a regular basis.
Several people have sent me e-mails that they wished they could download some of the cartoons from my website. Right now you can’t really do that as they are embedded in Flash (unless you take a framegrab).
But now you can. From Flickr!
You can find the Marsden Cartoon Flickr page here:
This is an unpublished self-promotional humorous children’s book and science fiction illustration featuring Bombo the Bear, Chester the Butler and their time travelling friends.
In the 1980s I wrote and illustrated several episodes of ‘Idi and Bombo’ about Bombo the Bear and Idi the bird for Swiss Television DRS (Fernsehen DRS). Later I had a regular full page color ‘Bombo’ comic in the Sonntagsblick Newspaper.
It was rendered in pen and ink, colored pencils and watercolors. (only the sky gradient is digitally created).
Poster for the first International Rheinfelder Cartoon Exhibition in Rheinfelden, Switzerland 1990
The event featured cartoonists from various countries and was a big success. It was co-sponsored by Paul Schärer (Kulturförderung Paul Schärer), Aargau
This golf cartoon was originally in color, this is the only reproduction I still have.
It was created using a pen and ink and gouache on D’Arches watercolor paper.
It depicts a bunch of highly distrustful birds who have ganged up on a poor golfer somewhere in Scotland. Their suspicion seems to be that it is not a golf ball at all but rather an egg he might be playing with.
It was published in the Swiss Nebelspalter magazine in 1991 and was exhibited at the
4th International Cartoon Biennale in Davos, Switzerland
(22. July – 22. August 1992 Kongresszentrum Davos)
The original was purchased at the Cartoon Biennale Davos by well-known Swiss media personality, actor, comedian, writer, producer Hansjörg Bahl and is in his personal collection.
This is a cartoon commissioned by Urs Kneubühl for Mövenpickles Magazine, the internal publication for the Mövenpick corporation.
Urs Kneubühl was a wonderful person to work for and I would like to count him to my personal friends.
The concept was to have a party with 50 scoops of the fantastic Mövenpick ice-cream flavors. The seagull on top of the mound if ice-cream stems from the fact that ‘Möve’ means seagull in German.
I used a sketch of my own daughter Joanna for the little baby – she was 1 year old right around the time I drew this cartoon.
Pen and Ink on Paper – colored with aquarell watercolors and colored pencils.
