The Annotated Weekender

Saturday 12th January

2012-01-26T09:33:00.002Z

Saturday 14th January

2012-01-19T09:49:00.001Z

Saturday 7th January

2012-01-13T20:57:00.000Z

Saturday 31st December

2012-01-05T13:52:00.000Z

Saturday 24th December

2011-12-30T20:33:00.005Z

Saturday 17th December

2011-12-23T17:39:00.000Z

Saturday 10th December

2011-12-15T10:18:00.003Z

Saturday 3rd December

2011-12-08T16:55:00.001Z

Saturday 27th November

2011-12-01T09:56:00.001Z

Saturday 19th November

2011-11-24T09:14:00.001Z

Thought Bubble

2011-11-17T09:33:00.003Z

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Thought Bubble hits us straight in the face this Saturday/Sunday, I'm grabbing the nearest horse and riding down to the fine city of Leeds and I suggest you do the same.

On the the Saturday I'm part of a panel discussion called Paper/Science alongside, Philippa Rice, Tom Humberstone, Morten Thomsen and Kristyna Baczynski, discussion on the process of printing comics or displaying them online, it's at 12:10 – 13:00, Alea Cinema Room. Hosted by Mr Matt Sheret.

As well as my usual comics and stickers and stuff It's going to be the first UK show that I'll be taking Skimpy Jim too.

BUT WAIT THERE'S MORE, I've just finished a handy A5 print called Bus Bros and I've been assured by the printers that they will be back with me in time.

If you can't make it, don't worry, I'll probably have a few prints left over which i'll pop on my shop, where you can also find Skimpy Jim and a couple of other swanky items.

Saturday 12th November

2011-11-17T09:33:00.001Z

Saturday 5th November

2011-11-10T09:35:00.000Z

Saturday 29th October

2011-11-03T09:44:00.001Z

Saturday 22nd October

2011-10-27T14:01:00.001+01:00

Saturday 15th September

2011-10-20T09:28:00.002+01:00

Saturday 8th October

2011-10-13T09:33:00.000+01:00

Saturday 4th October

2011-10-06T09:39:00.000+01:00

Saturday 24th September

2011-09-29T15:35:00.000+01:00

Saturday 17th September

2011-09-22T13:41:00.000+01:00

Skimpy Jim

2011-09-19T10:17:00.001+01:00

Hi there. I am back from SPX with some good news. I have a brand new comic book.

Skimpy Jim is a hairy beast man, spawned from a child's unkempt hair. Confused and unsure of the proper ways of the world, this book explores the very nature of good and evil.

All copies sold online include a unique doodle on the inside front cover and a mystery badge.

The book is A5, 28 pages plus a nice gatefold hiding some photo illustrations. Full colour and saddlestiched. Printed in Manchester.

Click here to grab a copy.

Saturday 3rd September

2011-09-07T12:37:00.001+01:00

This weeks doodles are a day early, as I'm off to the early USA tomorrow, headed to SPX.

Because I'm out of the country this Saturday, next week will be my first week of not Annotating the Weekend Magazine in about 2 and a half years. But fear not, I plan on doodling on American magazines and other bits and bobs I find along the way.

Also, when I return I will have some exciting news. I promise.

Saturday 28th August

2011-09-01T14:48:00.000+01:00

Saturday 20th August

2011-08-25T16:47:00.000+01:00

Saturday 13th August

2011-08-18T15:19:00.000+01:00

Saturday 6th August

2011-08-11T15:07:00.000+01:00

Saturday 30th July

2011-08-04T17:40:00.000+01:00

Saturday 23rd July

2011-07-28T15:34:00.000+01:00

Manchester MCM Expo

2011-07-27T21:29:00.003+01:00

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This Saturday (29th of July) I will be sitting politely inside the huge Manchester Central (GMEX). If , like me, you live in this general region of the UK. Then please come and visit, I'll have comics, prints and badges for sale and free stickers.

If you bring your Weekend Magazine I'll gladly do a quick doodle in it. For a grotesque quantity of information visit the official website

Saturday 16th July

2011-07-21T16:37:00.000+01:00

Thursday 7th July

2011-07-14T16:30:00.000+01:00

Saturday 2nd July

2011-07-07T15:22:00.000+01:00

Birmingham Zine Fair

2011-07-07T09:34:00.002+01:00

This Saturday (the 9th of July) I'll be attending the Birmingham Zine Fair. I'll have a modest pile of comics and Annotated Weekender Originals for you and your loved ones.

It's at the We Are Birmingham shop (here's a map) and i believe it is entirely free.

I'm sharing a table with Professor Dan Berry, a man who teaches, creates and understands comics of great quality. Pop by If you reside in Birmingham or the surrounding area.

Oh, and if you bring your copy of the weekend magazine and use the password "wonder-ghoul", i'll doodle in it for you, at no extra cost.

Saturday 25th June

2011-06-30T16:22:00.000+01:00

Saturday 18th June

2011-06-23T16:02:00.000+01:00

Saturday 11th June

2011-06-16T16:43:00.000+01:00

Saturday 4th June

2011-06-09T17:14:00.000+01:00

Saturday 28th May

2011-06-02T14:04:00.000+01:00

Saturday 25th April

2011-05-26T15:16:00.000+01:00

Saturday 14th May

2011-05-19T16:18:00.000+01:00

Saturday 7th May

2011-05-11T20:50:00.002+01:00

Saturday 30th April

2011-05-05T17:29:00.000+01:00

Saturday 24th April

2011-04-28T18:47:00.000+01:00

Saturday 16th April (the return of 8-bit)

2011-04-21T18:35:00.003+01:00

Everyones favourite gentleman illustrator, 8-bit sent me a great annotation this week. And i was thankful for it, as i'd avoided doodling on the home birth images. Because i'm a coward, and he isn't a coward.

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Thanks 8-bit. Thaight-bit.

Saturday 9th April

2011-04-14T17:13:00.000+01:00

Saturday 2nd April - Continued

2011-04-08T14:03:00.000+01:00

Saturday 2nd April

2011-04-07T12:59:00.001+01:00

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OH DEAR! Blogger just deleted three of this weeks images when i tried to reorder them. I will post them up tomorrow, same bat time, same bat station.

Saturday 26th March

2011-03-31T18:04:00.000+01:00

Saturday 19th March

2011-03-24T13:41:00.000Z

Saturday 12th March

2011-03-17T14:54:00.000Z

Saturday 5th March

2011-03-10T12:33:00.000Z

Saturday 26th March

2011-03-03T10:24:00.000Z

Hammo

2011-03-02T15:49:00.000Z

Look at these great guest annotations from Manchesters based artist Hammo. I love the pick pockets, and the Mack puppet! You can check out more of his work at http://www.thehammo.com/

Hammo sent these through late last week, but i thought i'd wait to see if there were any other stragglers, there weren't, so here they are:

Jonathan Edwards, John Allison, Lizz Lunney, Warwick Johnson Cadwell, Timothy Winchester, Salle Pierre Lamy, Lee Monks, Clark Burscough

2011-02-25T10:15:00.001Z

What a week it's been, huh? What a week! Here's the last, but biggest batch of annotations...
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Jonathan Edwards
Jonathan is a real nice chap, and a fantastic illustrator, plus his illustrations are in the Guardian guide every week. He also curates Draw Serge, and currently has a weekly strip in the NME
http://www.jonathan-e.com/

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John Allison
Johnny Allison is a super dude, he is the master and commander of Bad Machinery, Scary Go Round and Giant Days. He once killed a crow and blamed it on me. www.badmachinery.com

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Lizz Lunney

Lizz is great at annotating, if you're not aware of her work then wake up, she's got a website and everything. www.lizzlizz.com

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Warwick Johnson Cadwell
Warwick is a flipping marvel, I'm looking forward to buying a whole load of his comics in the near future. Check out his blog, or don't, but if you don't, i'm not talking to you. http://warwickjohnsoncadwell.blogspot.com/

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Salle Pierre Lamy
I've been a fan of Salle Pierre Lamy since before you were born, they are a band of puppet men, who sing wonderful songs and make wonderful films, they are just crawling onto the internet at the moment, and it's about flipping time, the world has been waiting.
http://sallepierrelamy.co.cc/

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Timothy Winchester
Timothy Winchester is creates the weekly webcomic people i know, he's also a very nice chap. Look he's drawn my internet avatar as a balloon, nice work sir. http://www.timothywinchester.com/

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Steve May
Steve is an illustrator from the London town, you'll probably recognise his work from the fantastic BBC 3 animated series, monkeydust, among other works. http://www.stevemay.biz

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Lee Monks
Lee Monks is also called Koris the Illustrator, and you can find more of his work here

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Clark Burscough
Clark is a major player in the Thought Bubble festival, and even though he's drawn on the wrong publication, he's gone to a lot of effort of annotating the observer magazine, so here they are.

Luke Pearson, Kristyna baczynski, Lynn Allingham, James Clayton, Luke Davis & Ian Richens

2011-02-24T09:41:00.003Z

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Luke Pearson
Luke is a great, i've not seen an image by him, that i didn't like. Last year he released his book Hildafolk, which is a real treat, you really should check it out. http://www.lukepearson.com/

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Kristyna Baczynski
I met Kristyna for the first time just the other day at the opening of her show at Common, she's a brilliant artist and i encourage you to take a gander at more of her work... http://kriskicorp.blogspot.com/

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Lynn Allingham
Lynn makes incredible jewellery out of tiny things. She has also put up with me doing this blog for the past 2 years. Occasionally I convince her to draw. Check out her Etsy shop here and her brand new Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/tuckshop/

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James Clayton
James is a writer and sketcher, check out his website at... http://about.me/james__clayton

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Luke Davis
Luke is the face behind Hopskotch Zine, you can check out his twitter feed at http://twitter.com/#!/HopskotchZine

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Ian Richens
I really like Ians shark, you can see more of his work at iananan.co.uk

FeltMistress, Joe Decie, Andrew Maddern, Graham Johnson & Laurie Pink

2011-02-23T09:39:00.004Z

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Feltmistress

Louise Evens is a wonderful lady, and look what she's done! Mack in three dimensions. He currently lives with me and i cannot be more thankful. For more of Louises creations, check here, here and here

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Joe Decie
Joe is a great chap, a real nice sort. He is based in Brighton and you can find his work HERE. I met him for the first time last year and am a big fan of his work.

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Andrew Maddern
Andrew is a solid dude, you can follow him on twitter, here

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Graham Johnson
Graham is a budding cartoonist, you can see more of his work here

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Laurie Pink
This isn't Laurie's first guest annotations, no she's been down this road before. You can check out more of her work HERE

Philippa Rice, Old Guard, Simon Gurr, Craig Collins & Richard Eades

2011-02-22T09:09:00.005Z

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Day 2, what a day!

Philippa Rice
Philippa is responsible for My Cardboard Life, a fantastic webcomic that if you haven't already, you should check out now. She is also the Jim Henson to Mike Dolphino's Kermit the frog.

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Old Guard

Tom Johnson is both a fantastic designer and a fantastic guy. We did a collaborative piece years ago and you can see more of his work on his site, HERE

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Simon Gurr
Mister Gurr used all the ink in the world on the first one, but i'm glad he did, it looks great!
Simon is an illustrator/Cartoonist and his website is here.

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Craig Collins
Craig Collins is a Glasgow based comic writer and occasional cartoonist.
http://craig-collins.blogspot.com/

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Richard Eades
Richard Eades is a Manchester based illustrator and comic book artist, you can visit his website here... www.rickeades.co.uk

Eight bit, Nathan Dobby, Matt Sheret

2011-02-21T09:55:00.009Z

The Annotated Weekender is 2. It's a small number sure, but i've been drawing on this magazine every week, without fail. I've taken them on holiday with me, and put up a special one both Christmases when there was no Guardian. To celebrate some kind fellows have drawn up some guest annotaions, which i'll be posting up guest each day this week.

Eight bit

Now here's a great artist, plus I received his pieces before i'd even bought my Guardian! Eight Bit is a fantastic illustrator, you should go check out his flickr and follow him on the twitter. Oh, he's got a Facebook page too

Nathan Dobby

Nathan builds computer games, he's a brilliant chap. I nearly missed some of what he's done here, so look hard.

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Matt Sheret
Matt is kind of a maverick, he works for Last FM, one of the best websites of all, he co-founded We are words and pictures and is driving force behind Paper Science, for more info he's got a website right, about.. HERE

Saturday 12th February

2011-02-17T09:43:00.000Z

The Annotated Weekenders 2nd birthday

2011-02-15T15:00:00.002Z

The Annotated Weekender is two years old next week and i'm once again opening the doors to your annotations. Use whatever medium you want, pens, inks, paint, collage, even computers if you want.

To take part
Grab a copy of the Guardian on Saturday the 19th of February, draw on the Weekend Magazine, scan/photograph it and email it to theannotatedweekender@googlemail.com

But I don't live in the UK?
If you still want to take part, but live outside of the Weekend Magazines reach, then you can still get involved, why not do what i did at christmas and annotate on previous annotations...

Boring restrictions
Up to 3 annotations per person,
500 pixles width is best, but not entirely essential,
Try and send them in as soon as you can, i'll be posting them up each day next week!
I look forward to seeing your doodles!

Here are some of my favourites from last year:

Jonathan Edwards

John Allison

Phillipa Rice

Warwick Johnson Cadwell

Lizz Lunney

Peskimo

Saturday 5th February

2011-02-10T09:34:00.000Z

Saturday 29th January

2011-02-02T19:14:00.002Z

Saturday 22nd January

2011-01-27T10:07:00.000Z

Saturday 15th December

2011-01-20T09:33:00.000Z

Saturday 8th January

2011-01-13T09:55:00.001Z

Saturday 1st January

2011-01-06T09:34:00.000Z

The Annotated Annotated Weekender

2010-12-30T12:13:00.001Z

Winterval joy to you, friends and allies. As you have probably already realised, there was no Guardian Weekend magazine this week, due to Winterval day being on a Saturday. But fear not, just like LAST YEAR, I have worked around the problem. I present you with, The Annotated Annotated Weekender...

Saturday 18th December

2010-12-23T09:49:00.000Z

Saturday 11th December

2010-12-16T08:25:00.000Z