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!
Happy new Year
Happy New year! May next year be as eventful as this one and you get all that you deserve (you never know, someone might treat you to one of my cartoon books!). See you all again next year, with a...Comments: 1
Echo-sketch
Merry Christmas folks. I'm off to see what Santa has left under the tree for me. It might be a new computer (fingers crossed) or it might be the usual socks, an orange and a bag of nuts!
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Wheelchair user?!
Some people just don't get it do they. I use a wheelchair when I need to, and when I don't, I don't - if you see what I mean?! I've lost count of the number of times I've revisited a venue to be told...Comments: 0
Thursday 20th December 2007
OK. Enough of that. Here's another cartoon taking a light hearted look at the progress that's been made in the name of Disability in the UK - or not, as it happens! I've produced many variations on...Comments: 0
Wednesday, December 19th 2007
You'll find the following cartoon on the science blog that has been started on this web site. Our Editor Colin asked me for a contribution and this was it. It's quite an interesting blog to...Comments: 0
Tuesday, December 18th 2007
I rarely get feedback from those organisations that I target in some of my work, such as the Arts Council. However, the other day I did recieve an email from a woman who claimed to work at the said...Comments: 0
Thursday, December 13th 2007
Sorry about this following one folks. I can hear the groans from here, especially from our Editor! Well, there is a lot of it going around isn't there?! I actually had to amend this cartoon as...Comments: 0
Clocking out
This idea came after watching a market stall holder doing his patter with a tray of watches. I asked him if he had any that had more than 24 hours on their face? I won't tell you his reply - no sense...Comments: 0
Bloody computers!
Bloody computer! It's now decided that it doesn't recognise another bit of the software that I use to produce my cartoons for the web. Although not having resorted to throwing it out of the window,...Comments: 0
Legless
And OK. I know that the octopus one isn't festive, but it made me chuckle, and I drew it! I think I may have got the idea from the American Disabled cartoonist Callahan who drew a cartoon of an alien...Comments: 0
Snowman
This next snowman one got included in a batch of equality cartoons I produced for a trainer oop North.
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Singing for the disabled
As Christmas draws closer and this old laptop of mine gradually gives up more of the ghost, I thought I'd amuse you with some of the cartoons I've been creating with a festive theme. Most of these...Comments: 0
Hoops!
I’ve created several cartoons around this theme over the past several months or so, and this idea came to me as I was looking at some old sketches I’d done of crips having to jump through the...Comments: 0
Billions!
As I mentioned earlier in this blog and also in a couple of my cartoon e-books, funding within the UK is continuing to be sucked into a huge void labelled ‘The 2012 Olympic games’. At the time of...Comments: 0