Saturday, January 11, 2014

Friday, January 10, 2014

Thursday, January 09, 2014

Wednesday, January 08, 2014

Tuesday, January 07, 2014

Monday, January 06, 2014

WTF Monday - Careful With That Gate Latch, Sir





Genuine ad from the British Library's stash.

I always thought a "Prince Albert" was a cock ring … Ah, the perils of an English grammar school education. Hey ho.

Sunday, January 05, 2014

Saturday, January 04, 2014

Thursday, January 02, 2014

No Captions Necessary

This is for Petrea, who suspected that I drew these things myself.
I merely added the captions to the ones I've been posting of late from the British Library's online collection of old illustrations, but some of them need no captions as they are mad enough in themselves.

I'll have two-shillingsworth of whatever Holmes used to stop his high wind troubling him.

And here's something for the ladies. We gentlemen - and apparently "the whole polite world" - would prefer it if this year you crushed your ribcages and rearranged your internal organs with the apparatus below.

One wonders who Dorothy might have been and what she had done to deserve that.

Here's to an elegant and graceful 2014.

Wednesday, January 01, 2014