Crippen's Blog

Step into the irreverent world of disabled cartoonist Crippen aka Dave Lupton, who has been in the vanguard of disability arts movement for more years than he cares to mention. His work has appeared in mainstream press, on TV and film and is now probably the best Disabled cartoonist in the world!

Crippen's cartoon about charities response to user led organisations
21 April 2010

Crippen revisits his earlier postings regarding user-led involvement

Following the news relating to Local Authorities being advised by the Department of Health to give preference to tenders for services from User-Led Organisations (ULO's) it got me to thinking about...

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Crippen's cartoon about the Channel 4 comedy drama Cast Offs
20 December 2009

Crippen looks at what Cast Offs has done for Disabled people in the UK

Most of you will have either seen it (or heard the audio description)  or will have read about it. Either way, you'll have realised just what an impact the new Channel 4 series Cast Offs,...

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Crippen portrays Trevor Phillips' Cast Off solution for 'the disabled'
7 December 2009

Trevor Phillips looks to Cast Offs as a possible solution for 'the disabled'

Not having had access to a UK television, I've not been able to see the new crip series Cast Offs on Channel Four. However, I have seen most of the reviews and other material that's been available on...

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