Stephen Collins

@stephencollinscomics

Illustrator and cartoonist
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[comic 👉] what's that, you've gone on the internet to find some topical UK census-based humour from the year 2021? Ok . . . #comic #comedy #sketch #cartoon #bookstagram
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[comic 👉] An old one, I've added some bits because I felt like it. (Prints of the original version are on sale in my shop) . . . #comic #comedy #sketch #shakespeare #literature
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4 days ago
😂 @stephencollinscomics ’ cartoon from our latest edition
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5 days ago
I've got a few pet portrait slots remaining before the summer! Just posted this portrait of Izzy the dog off today. What a lovely dog, good girl Izzy yes you are yes you arrrrr. To enquire please DM or find my email on the website (link in bio). They're £190 plus postage and they live a lot longer than your pet will!!! Actually no that's not a very nice way to sell it is it sorry . . . #petportrait #dogportrait #dogsofinstagram #dog #artgift
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[comic 👉] . . . #comic #comedy #sketch #history #cartoon
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[comic 👉] Explanation: the guardian travel bit does a thing where the readers send in their travel tips so I took it upon myself to open things up a bit to our readers who are microplastics . . . #microplastics #comics #comedy #sketch #satire
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7 days ago
[comic 👉] Have you seen this on the @guardian website?? I only ask because as a subscriber I cannot trigger it to see it on the page. It is an ad that I made for them that appears to non-subscribers so I can never make it appear. Thanks to the ever-patient Will Dean who asked me to think of something years ago and I took ages, as everything I came up with just didn't work as an advert. Then I had the idea for doing this rather meta thing with you X interface elements going on a date. The joke is generally targeted at people who come to the website website to read Blind Date (that's a lot of people), so they visit the site often enough to get the reference, but don't pay to support the Guardian. At least, I hope people get it. I had a lot of fun doing it. The original script was ridiculously long, I got way too into the lore of this couple and their date #guardian #advertising #advertisingillustration #comedy #cartoon
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16 days ago
The brilliant @itsrayning_ and @comicsyouth asked me to talk about a time when I'd nearly given up making comics. My immediate answer was "7am every Tuesday when I'm having a deadline breakdown cos I haven't thought of anything", but then I thought a bit more and gave a proper answer (next image). It's difficult to keep going at something which doesn't initially pay enough, and maybe never will. I think we have the impulse to see ourselves as all or nothing, whole identity consumed as one 'job' or talent, or it isn't real. I think that's rubbish. And I think it's important to give yourself a break from feeling like that and value yourself, whatever your creative interest is. Tl;dr: there is no such thing as a 'side hustle'. We are just humans doing lots of things until we die #scribblethroughthestruggle and #youngcomicslaureate
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16 days ago
[Comic 👉] . . . #comic #comedy #sketch #science #biscoff
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17 days ago
Second time lucky! This was an interesting challenge - reproduce a painting commission you’ve already done and delivered once but has been destroyed by @anpostofficial . First image is the repainted version, last image is the first one, scanned before the postie stabbed it with a spike. I delivered this second one by hand to the subject when she visited London - not posting this again. It was actually quite an interesting technical exercise, and I think it turned out better second time round. Most of all though i’m just very pleased she finally got her painting! (Always insure your artwork deliveries properly, artists) . . . #artgift #painting #portrait #familyportrait #commission
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17 days ago
[comic 👉] . . . #comic #comedy #sketch #satire #politics
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19 days ago
Yo art director? I am an illustrator! (Sometimes feel the need to remind people of this as I post a lot of comics.) Commission me if you wish, I am good at it 😘 This one was for last Saturday's @ft_houseandhome about plans to turn London's lesser-used (and massive) golf courses into housing. So I had this fun idea to do it as a kind of crazy golf course, but with full-size houses. It's a good article too, have a read. Appropriately enough to the subject, this job required planning to redesign it for mobile, in different dimensions, which is a fun little design challenge. It means drawing all the elements on separate layers, and thinking ahead so that you have an illustration concept which is able to be reconfigured into a square shape. So anyway yeah, commission me for illustration, I am keen and able and friendly! Thanks to @chris_tosic.ad for art direction and @beatricehodgkin for editorial direction. #illustration #editorialillustration #golf
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