Many thanks to everyone who came to the Pocket Money Loans store at Shangri-La, Glastonbury 2016. Also massive thanks to everyone on the Shangri-La crew, especially Simon Vaughan, Kaye Dunnings, Moses, Willy, and the utterly brilliant Spider. Met some absolutely superb human beings and had an impossibly great time amid the mud and the misery. And of course gigantic super-thanks to everyone on the Pocket Money Loans staff who saved my life and my sanity on several occasions, David Jones, Hannah Logic and Justin Carroll. Smashed it. MORE PHOTOS
I’ll be doing a stall of my wares at Breakdown Press‘s excellent Safari Festival in east London later this month.
If you’re able and/or interested in funding the creation of this short film please get in touch and I can provide more details.
Wikileaks asked me to draw this on the off-chance they’d be leaked the unredacted Chilcot Inquiry before it was released. Unless that happens in the next 12 hours this has become sort of redundant. But look at it anyway. #Wikileaks #Iraq
Just two days after Glastonbury, Pocket Money Loans opened a new store at Roskilde Festival, Denmark, which has also unfortunately just had to close due to lack of child-customers interested in mindlessly expensive financial products. That said, it was a fantastic festival in a brilliant country. I can’t tell if I’m more tired from work, booze or laughing. Massive thanks to everyone who visited and especially those who helped run the shop and kept me on the verge of sanity especially David Matthew Jones, Gary Barber and Kirstie Fleck off of Is Tropical and her brother Tom Fleck. MORE PHOTOS #PocketMoneyLoans #Exhibitions
I’m going to be taking Pocket Money Loans to Glastonbury this summer, setting up a payday loan shop for kids in Shangri-La. If you’re going to be at the festival be sure to bring any unaccompanied kids along for an unholy baptism into the world of high interest consumer debt.
I have some work in this anthology of comics about class which you can order through this crowdfunding page for the next 10 days. Including a reward level which gets you one of my beheaded Queen stamps. 200 pages, 60 artists, put together and edited by the excellent Sam Wallman. Get it gotten. UPDATE: Crowdfunder has ended but you can order the book here.
I was interviewed for Voima magazine in Finland. You can read the online version here.
Pocket Money Loans is coming to the legendary Roskilde Festival, Denmark this summer!
Thomas the Tank, work in progress. Follow my Instagram for more half-baked updates of unfinished artwork. I’m going to be giving a short talk at a couple of events this month. Firstly on the 21st April at Rich Mix, London for The Finnish Institute’s evening on culture jamming and anti-advertising art, alongside Jani Leinonen, Sara Kärpänen and Mel Evans. Starts 18.30, with drinks afterwards. https://www.facebook.com/events/584254161736946/ Then on the 28th April I’ll be talking about my work at ‘Subverting the War Machine’ a meeting organised by the people behind last year’s anti-UKIP Cabaret about what we can actively do to resist militarism over the coming months including protesting/preventing the Red Arrows planned fly-by of the London Pride march this summer. Other speakers include Ruth Barnett, activist, author and Holocaust survivor, Campaign Against the Arms Trade, Bilal Ahmed journalist and migrant rights activist, and Gareth Hardy. https://www.facebook.com/events/1710626165821086/1716759788541057/
I have no idea why I did this. But if you want a print, they’re in the shop.
I made this poster for Fat White Family and their upcoming gig at the O2 Academy Brixton. T-shirts and posters coming soon. Buy tickets here.
New painting. Watercolour rip off of “Napoleon Crossing the Alps”. Limited edition prints are available here.
First drawing of the new year. Available as a limited edition signed print.
Thanks to everyone who helped, supported, clicked on, bought, visited or threw things at my work this year. And well done, of course, to the planet Earth itself, who successfully orbited the sun and helped make the entire thing possible. I have at least one and a half things planned for 2016 so you better go to bed early tonight and get some rest in preparation. Darren
Last week I opened my studio/gallery/shop in Lewisham, south east London: WAR. I was primarily looking for a studio space and ended up finding this shop front, an old barbershop with a big front window in “the worst shopping centre in the country”, and figured I might as well do the front as a gallery and flog my comics while I’m at it. Then I realised I should get some other people who’s work I like so I started calling round and it’s now stocked with STRIKE! Magazine, Breakdown Press, Wobbly Rock and David Peter Kerr, with more to follow. Follow WAR on twitter / facebook
Because the keys on a keyboard are all muddled up and wrong instead of being laid out alphabetically, most people when writing on their computers just hit the buttons in a blind panic and hope for the best, but this is incorrect. The proper technique, used by professionals, is to look up the desired letter in a “keyboard guide” like the one above. This way, by quickly and conveniently following the line to the corresponding button, you can locate the required character on your actual keyboard in a matter of moments, dramatically increasing both your productivity and wellbeing. #lifehacks Available as a limited edition print to hang in your work cubicle or home computer room
