LOST SKETCHBOOK: Red, passport-sized, Muji made.
LAST SEEN: London Borough of Hammersmith, the boot of an illegal cab. My idiot dude companion at the time signaled the cab, left my overnight bag there and then waved the driver off, making the whole thing impossible to trace.
CONTAINS: Recorded scenes of Miffy’s 50th birthday at the National Library of Scotland, epigrams on simplicity from Dick Bruna. Selected paraphernalia from Pixar’s exclusive exhibit 20 Years of Animation, again in Scotland. Chummy London Bobby’s exposition of English football fans concussing each other with newspapers and slitting faces with credit cards. Carnaby Street style sketches in ballpoint and Pantone marker. More fully realized drawings of the Red Dragon of Wales, same medium. A couple nightmares about exorcism. Cartoons of two unbelievably fat Welsh sheep in pencil.
(These days I do most sketching on loose brown paper – that archway drawn from memory is in Edinburgh, not London.)