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 exocrip cartoon
29 August 2008

Wrong legs

Remember Wallace and Grommet and the 'Wrong Trousers'? Well … A robotic set of legs to help people paralysed from the waist down has been designed by a Disabled Israeli engineer. exocrip...

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Crippen cripclop cartoon
22 August 2008

Crossroads

I thought that I’d combine a couple of political issues that have been picked up by my radar this week. Our Bert Massie (Sherbert to you mate!) has expressed strong reservations about the way in...

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Crippen Cripclone cartoon
15 August 2008

Perfect human

Human cloning in order to produce the perfect human being got me to thinking. We already have perfect humans - in the shape of the limitless variety of Disabled people that inhabit this earth, so...

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Crippen steps cartoon
8 August 2008

Super crips

Many people credit me with the access cartoon showing a Dalek stuck at the bottom of a flight of steps when setting out to conquer the world. I’m not sure who came up with this gem; it might...

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Crippen teaching cartoon
1 August 2008

Teaching disability

Having many friends within the Disabled People’s Movement who came up through the special educational system, I’ve been given a bit of an insight into just how effective this system works. O.K,...

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