Bethlehem Garage

A cartoon for those last minute shoppers featuring my favourite three wise men.

Santas Revenge

What do you tell your children who think Santa has delivered their presents when there aren't batteries included in with your electronic presents?  Is he negligent, was there an elf who needs disciplining at the North Pole?  Here's an alternative scenario from a slightly bad Santa.

A Frosty Start

Every year I hastily scribble some cartoons in friends Christmas cards here is one that combines Frosty the Snowman and Frozen's Let It Go.

The Battles of Black Friday 2014

This is for the cartoon competition with the theme Film Lines but it relates to the unbelievable scenes in Tesco stores (including one I've been in) where people engaged in hand to hand tussles for discounted televisions.

Star Wars: The Force Awakens Trailer - unanswered question

Watched the new The Force Awakens trailer and the main thing that stuck was me was what was the point of the T-shaped lightsaber...

I tried googling Sword forms to see if this was a part of any ancient swords and while there are jaggy guards they still don't look like this and their purpose was to help protect hands.

Here is an interesting page on sword forms.

EDIT: I've had a couple of responses including in the comments here about how this is just a hilt or guard like a normal sword would have or saying all the answers can be found by googling crossguard lightsaber.  So after further internet research heres what I've learned:

• If this is a guard to protect hands (which may be useful given that Luke and Anakin both lost their hands in lightsaber duels) then that crosspiece should either be light too (see this Techcrunch article) or has to be made of some material that can't be chopped through (see this piece in the Washington post)
• This is a rare design and we haven't seen before or have we?  There is some talk about one  being wielded by a Jedi called Roblio Darte in some Clone War comics but from reading the Wookiepedia article that one seems a slightly different design with another blade coming off at a 45 degree angle.
• The blades coming out a 90 degree angle to the sword still seems a bad idea to me more of a nuisance to the wielder than one who is being attacked.  As a defensive measure maybe you need a hilt made of some impenetrable material, as an offensive weapon those extra blades should be angled forward.
• I wonder if anyone can come up with an analogous traditional sword with a long 90 degree hilt with blades at the end of the guard not just spikes where the guard is used in attack.

Jurassic Turkey

Its Thanksgiving and the new trailer for Jurassic World is out.

Funny Turkeys

Thanksgiving is nearly upon us and its always fun to draw turkeys.  This ones for the competition.