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!

Disabled cartoon
28 April 2008

Monday, April 28th 2008

Homogeneous group: I’m currently working on some new cartoons for use by Disability Equality trainers in the UK. It goes without saying that these people are themselves Disabled and not from...

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28 April 2008

Clearer Image

If you want to see a clearer image, just click on the cartoon and it will change to a larger size. You'll also find a description of the cartoon along with the enlargement (this is provided for...

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28 April 2008

Sex!

By the way, I’m not sure whether I’ve mentioned this before but I’ve now got several new cartoon collections available on the Crippen section of my web site (several times! –...

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abled cartoon
10 April 2008

Thursday, April 10th 2008

Our cousins over the water: I often get requests from American magazines for cartoons. Well, to be more exact, they more often ask me if they can use one of the cartoons that they’ve seen on...

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10 April 2008

Hola Dolly

If like me you follow Dolly Sen’s blog on this site (click on the blog’s link up on the right) you see that she’s added some of her amazing poetry this month. That woman certainly...

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10 April 2008

Comments

Thanks for the comments on the last blog entry folks (the one below regarding Francesca). It's really great to get feedback so keep it coming.

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tibet cartoon
4 April 2008

Torch boycott

Disabled comedian Francesca Martinez has withdrawn as a torch carrier for the Olympic Games saying she felt that taking part would legitimise violence in Tibet. YES! At last someone with the guts to...

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4 April 2008

Response

I stand corrected. Apparently sport is more important than having your country, your people and your culture systematically destroyed by a superpower (and on this occassion I mean China!). Olympic...

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