Austin Grandmother Tasered at Traffic Stop

A 72-year-old woman was pulled over for speeding, then tazered and sent to jail. The lady says she drives to Austin about twice a month to do her shopping.

The police claim that after the grandma was stopped for driving 15 miles over the speed limit in a construction zone, she disobeyed an order to sign the speeding ticker, used profane language, and became “violent.” They say the officer who taserer her and took her to be booked for resisting arrest was completely justified.

Entertaining in a Downturn.

Management Today business illustration on organising a staff party with doom all around.

"Do say: ‘In the light of the economic situation we are going to carefully review money we spend on entertaining, to ensure it is effective and essential to the business.’

Don’t say: ‘You are invited to our grand Credit Crunch Ball. Dress code: Thirties-style Depression.’"

Alexander Garrett

Exposition "Jacques Tati and Friends"

En écho à la fascinante modernité rétro de la villa Arpel, j'ai trouvé amusant d'imaginer une pochette de disque très "fifties" dans le genre "Dansons avec Jacques Tati et son Orchestre". Le personnage de la “voisine” est très marrant à dessiner, c’est d’ailleurs mon préféré dans le film.

L’exposition “Tati and Friends” aura lieu à la Seed Factory en janvier 2010.

Today in English : Flying Pigs

News from Texas, USA.

Texans may soon be allowed to hunt wild pigs from helicopters.

The measure was proposed in response to complaints about the destruction caused by two million wild pigs.

Agriculture experts estimate that $52 million a year of crop damage is caused by the beasts but not everyone is happy about citizens taking to the air with hunting rifles !

London Magazine : "Rude Londoners"

Three illustrations for a feature by Nick Curtis on rude Londoners : angry drivers and lazy, uninterested Shop Assistants.

http://www.thelondonmagazine.co.uk/Features/More-Features/Named-and-shamed-the-rudest-people-in-London-and-the-loveliest.html

Stage fright discomfort

A few months ago I was asked to propose some ideas for an advertising campain on bowels dysfunction.

I came up with that proposal on stage fright discomfort. At first the client was interested but the illustration was eventually killed because it sounded too strong (even for the young male readers of Esquire magazine in which the advert was to be published).

Bibendum & Co

La Maison de l'Image chez Seed Factory (19 avenue des Volontaires à Bruxelles)

organise une exposition sur les mascottes publicitaires. Plus de 80 illustrateurs

rendent hommage au personnage de leur choix.

L'exposition est ouverte au public à partir du 4 mai jusqu'au 31 août 2009,

du lundi au vendredi de 9 à 18 heures (fermé les sam., dim., et jours fériés).