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Tea-fuelled scientist and cartoonist and occasional bicycle courier.

If you recognise my stuff it's possibly one of the following:

- you're related to me;
- you've worked with me;
- you've read the fetishman comics or found them somewhere;
- you've seen my drawings or me and the stall in a steampunk/physics/tea-related/fetish/goth/comics convention/market/club-night/weekend/magazine/newsletter/web-thing/anthology/gallery;
- white russians were involved.

sound about right?


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no, I'm not awake, I'm sound asleep

This isn't me awake in the wee small hours before driving to Bristol for the Bristol Comic con. I'm getting a good night's sleep right now. Absolutely. Zzzzzzzzzz etc.

Ooh, but while we're here:

a) Bristol, seriously, it may well be one of the finest displays of my First Tea Company Travelling museum to date, there's like a separate room and everything, all I'm doing now is fretting that there's so much more I want to build! Fingers crossed we may even have Herr Doktor's Eterni-Tea working. See you there if you're coming!

and a little more about the museum and the latest fetishman, #15

b) Last weekend's London jaunt was ace! Seriously, mighty thanks to those who helped, was ace to get over to see the Resistance Gallery at last, and a mighty recommendation for you guys to seek out the "Clockwork Watch" events and Mr Elphick's next "Goblin King's Masquerade Ball", they are a magical wonderland!

x
geof

Dear Londoners

If the list of wonderful events I'm doing this weekend is anything to go by I will see all of you soon. If I fall asleep mid-sentence may I offer my sincerest apologies. If I was mid-drawing tea will almost certainly bring me back.

Fri, May 4 7:30 pm – Sat, May 5 2:30 am: goblin king’s masquerade
http://www.goblin-king.co.uk/
(The old vic tunnels, london)
a fantastical night of faery! And probably the only occasion I will ever combine my usual scruffy-retro attire with my Barbarian party stuff.

Sat, May 5: resistance gallery art fair
http://resistancegallery.com/PopUp-shopping-day%282706507%29.htm / 
(265 Poyser Street , Bethnal Green , London E2 9RF)
a stack of excellent artists in a one-afternoon display

Sun, May 6 1:00 pm – 9:00 pm: tomorrow’s world today! a clockwork watch event
http://www.advancementofsciences.com/ 
(Arch No. 10, Bermondsey Street Tunnel. Off Tooley Street. London. SE1)
Steampunkery at its best, blurring the lines between fiction and reality. And in this case I've kindly been invited to bring the First Tea Company Museum.

kind regards
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geof

A charming review of the review!

http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/2012/the-steampunk-literary-review-by-count-poshname-von-plumbing-supplies/ 

Cheers James!
geof

VIKINGS! Fetishman 15 is incoming

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"VIKINGS! WHAT IS MANLIEST IN LIFE?!"

Comics!! I pick up Fetishman 15 "Vikings" from the printer later today just in time for Whitby Goth Weekend! Was really cutting it fine this time but am well chuffed about this one. There's like a plot! And cute manly Vikings! With a special cartoon from Genki Gear Phil and various lies about history! Oh yes. Will hopefully finish off the subscriber-treat while at Whitby so those guys should be getting theirs early may, fortunately for the rest of you I have 5 weekends of events ahead of me where you can track me down and discover my awesome new historically-improbable hypotheses about the vikings!

Fri, Apr 27 – Sat, Apr 28: whitby goth weekend
(whitby spa pavillion)
Fri, May 4 7:30 pm – Sat, May 5 2:30 am: goblin king’s masquerade
http://www.goblin-king.co.uk/ (The old vic tunnels, london)
Sat, May 5: resistance gallery art fair
http://www.resistancegallery.com / (Hackney, london)
Sun, May 6 1:00 pm – 9:00 pm: tomorrow’s world today! a clockwork watch event
http://www.advancementofsciences.com/ (central london)
Sat, May 12 – Sun, May 13: Bristol Comic Expo
Sat, May 19 – Sun, May 20: Kapow comic con – London
http://kapowcomicconvention.com/ (52 Upper St, Islington, London, N1 0QH)
Fri, May 25 – Sun, May 27: mcm expo london
http://www.londonexpo.com (Excel London, Royal Victoria Dock, London, E16 1XL.)


geof

Neglectful Geof is neglectful

So yes, I did vanish for a while there, sorry about that, it's taken a couple of months but I seem to have finally established a defensive cordon around the too-busy-to-draw-stuff problem from where I can make some surgical strikes to eradicate it utterly

... or, for larks, run away screaming, hide in a barn, meet David Essex, kill a priest, scream some more and then generally wait for microbes to sort it all out for me. Not a great plan I'll grant thee but why not stick to tried and tested methods eh?

So what have I been up to? I can't bear the word "networking" as I can't "network" to save my life (the high point of my "networking" skills was to ask one of the UKs leading physicists if they had any job. classy me.) but what I can do is drink lots of tea and chat over said tea and there has been a hundred fold of that. For example, if you'd not noticed me and the ever wondrous Steve Bobcat have started up the Leeds Steampunk Market events (which do indeed do exactly what they say on the tin). I'll go into more detail another time but suffice it to say good stuff is afoot.

April is full of event-ness but right now I shall be urging you to "Come say hello!" at the Birmingham MCM Expo this weekend, and/or Eastercon/Olympus the weekend after. The Travelling Tea Museum will be displayed in all it's glory at Eastercon if you'd like to see it in the flesh, and with the re-issue of the First Tea Company Identity/Warrant Card I have kind of volunteered to render a thousand portraits. Oh, and the guest at MCM and Eastercon are amazing (memo to future Geof: please refrain from calling George RR Martin an "awesome mother fucker" to his face).

Birmingham MCM:
Eastercon (Heathrow):

in other news, tautology geof is tautology
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geof

How Kit Cox made me fictional

The charming (and talented, but that's another story) Phil once joked that I was rapidly becoming a cartoon version of myself. At least I think he joked. Either way I figured it would be no bad thing if I got more nuns out of it.

So anyway, and then the delightful Mr Kit Cox proceeded to render me into a wholly fictional form as a part of his "Jack Union 1885" twitter story!

Kit, the man for him I first drew an air kraken (the "kill your velocity" warning poster is also a portrait of Kit, if somewhat small) has made a surprisingly accurate description of my dream abode/workshop. The question now is whether I should elope with him or torture him in an attempt to discover how he managed to pilfer the Top Secret plans for "Operation: Awesomeness".

If you find Kit's work amusing then I'm pleased to say it's not long now before Kit's "How to Bag a Jabberwock" book is released
for which there is even a launch down in Brighton at the end of may!

Valentines cards!

A little close to valentines day itself but yeah, greetings cards are now available from the online shop:

http://islandofdoctorgeof.co.uk/shop/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=14 

In travelling-trading news SFX weekender was a delightful start to the year, caught up with some lovely people such as the Genki Gear guys as well as Elsie and Herr Doktor, drank rather a lot of port and had some most excellent live-portrait-requests, including godiva-llama and the bekittenator 1800.

geof

Valentines! Steampunk Chronicle! SFX and more!

(A sensible man would update this blog regularly and with tiny bite-sized portions of information. Ah well, this'll just be one more tally towards the statistical weighting)

There was xmas, there was new years, there was me being a bit lurgified and reading far too much (seriously, my eyes were going fuzzy and I almost kept track of all the sub-plots in game of thrones) and now EVERYTHING is about to start up again. Of which there is a lot. Too much for one blog entry. So try this:

Valentines ecard!
The steampunk chronicle are kindly featuring both my steampunk valentines card designs as ecards! Just follow the link and you can send anachronous messages of affection to ... other ... people ... (it's late, words elude me). Actual physical cards are back from the printer and should be available from the webshop early next week.

SFX weekender 3!

And why am I writing this so late at night? Why because I've just finished packing for the SFX weekender! Should be a hoot, Mav has packed all the port and we're crashing with the lovely Genki Gear guys, oh yeah and there's a massive sci-fi extravaganza! Drop over and see us at the market if you're kicking about.

Right, that'll do for now
laters!

x
geof

mugs!

Kind of catching up again at last, should be able to sort out me commissions over the next couple of days, buuuut what i do also have is a re-stock of the mugs at the online shop if ye fancy.

Next step: get the webcomics to update regularly again!

x
geof

Manchester Fair!

Quickie, mad busy, but if you're about in manchester today then there's a mahoosive alternative/burlesque/steampunk fair on just next to oxford road station, which, as it happens, i and the usual crew will also be attending!

much more news to add, and apologies for the lack of webcomic updates, but for the moment all I probably need to say is WEBSHOP!


laters!
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