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!
Foot and mouth
Overdue visit to a new local arts centre. I got the owner, a young English woman, talking about disability art. Might have known it; her only experience with us artistic crips has been with the...Comments: 3
27 October 2007
Jeni's birthday
Jeni’s birthday today. We’re having some of the Spanish neighbours in along with some English friends this evening (notice how I slipped in the reference to Spain? We’re currently down here in...Comments: 3
26 October 2007
Dreaming of aliens
Oh my god. I’ve done it again. Fallen asleep at the keyboard whilst adding some colour to the old greyscale political cartoons I created during the 90’s. Weird! Whilst I was dozing, my hand was...Comments: 2
26 October 2007
Friday 26th October 07
Have sent out about a thousand emails (OK I exaggerate, it’s a privilege of ageing!) to Disabled contacts around the world (and the Isle of Wight) telling them about my newly relaunched Crippen...Comments: 1
Thursday 25th October 07
Reply from Colin – “What’s this crap Dave?! What’s happened to your usual style of writing?” (never been a one to mince words our Col!) “I was trying to be a bit...Comments: 1
24 October 2007
Up the arts!
Let’s think about this. Some of the disability arts lot are a bit up their own arts, if you know what I mean. They wouldn’t take too kindly to my usual sort of irreverent ramblings....Comments: 3
22 October 2007
Buses!
Blogs seem to be a bit like buses don’t they? Nothing for ages then two come along together! Having just set up my long overdue Crippen blog on the a-n arts site, what happens? An email from...Comments: 1