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Educational illustration, comics, storyboarding and other narrative graphics from Simon Gurr & Julia Gurr

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DangeritisDangeritis is a brilliant collaboration between illustrators, Warwick Johnson Cadwell and Robert Ball. It’s a comic, published online in real time as each new page is completed. The story of indomitable action hair-o Derek Danger is unfolding beautifully on the Dangeritis tumblr.

I was already a big fan of messrs Johnson Cadwell and Ball before they joined forces, but this is a gorgeous, hilarious, kinetic treat. Warwick has blogged about the project here.

With the most recent page still fresh in my memory, I was stunned to find this mysterious image in a dusty old volume of medieval engravings.

Derek Danger
“Derek d’Anger” could, at a stretch, be a coincidence, but that text at the top? “Si guerrière, celui qui esquive les balles” translates roughly as “So warlike, he who dodges bullets”. WARLIKE Johnson-Cadwell? Robert BALLe? I felt my sanity crumbling at the enormity of what this implied and ran screaming from the library.

To break up the blog-silence of summer holiday season, here are some recent photos I’ve taken with Instagram.

I started using this photo-sharing app when my phone was updated and I’m finding it useful for visual note-taking and inspiration, especially enjoying its immediacy. I seem to be using both Twitter and my ‘proper’ camera much less now.

If you want to follow me on Instagram, my username is the same as on Twitter: @gurroo.