gapingvoid: "cartoons drawn on the back of business cards"

Hi there Hugh,
Yep, I think you are right!
Twitter about it, ask people to see if they would agree. Collect their emails, offer it to them. I'm in!

I love loads of your cartoons, but with some of these recent ones I'm getting a bit confused. I know they're all 'Hugh', but to me they seem more like decorative doodles, albeit with similar elements and in a similar drawing style to your cartoons. Is an abstract cartoon a doodle, or is it art? Or both :)

This is quite clearly a robot doing (a bad job of) the dishes. Hilarious.

You need a marketing outlet for these pieces. The sooner the better.

Dave

Honestly, you don't even need the "main stream" art market. I'm sure there are plenty of Hugh-fans that would line up for the chance to own a piece of your work.

I'm confused by your current looking to see things to the mainstream art market -- does this match your "How to be creative" mantra to sort of forget the critics, find your own niche and do what you are passionate about?

Is this art driving your passion? I guess it's because I haven't seen any blog posting about how this makes you feel alive or how you are tapping into something new and thrilling that I wonder if you are just doing it because now you have the name to really sell something (unlike most of the starving brethern!!!)

I love your stuff and would love to see a gallery with your business cards -- they speak to me. They show something that's really special and "Hugh": the combining of art with words to speak to modern nuances...

I just wonder if you aren't moving away from what makes you special.

But then again, what do I know....

where are we left without the acerbic, biting, dry, wit of the HUGH strapline, [perhaps that should be crapline - and I mean that as the highest compliment] ?
the stinging epithet, the twisted, sardonic cliches of post modern BLAH BLAH BLAH, the metafictions of
YADA YADA YADA and `the long tail` of cluelessness ?

except to say if you can command huge bundles of CASH to hang these things in the
grandiose self congratulatory orifices and foyers of large agencies - great.

Maybe, but I'd rather have some of you edge-to-edge black and white moleskine doodles done big first.

I'd take a signed, limited-edition lithograph!

I'd take a signed, limited-edition lithograph!

Draw like a gentleman, write copy like a rock star!