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Welcome to the official blog of Joanna Neary, where you can catch up on Jo’s bewildered world past, present and looming. Mainly, this blog consists of scanned pages from her sketchbook with a running commentary, dashed off between duties, work and other hobbies. As well as banging on about art, there’s also past gigs, and music, such as the one about being interviewed for Prog Magazine in 2019, which led to some delightful exchanges with fellow nerds. It was all very civil, even when Jo had to admit she’d got a Frank Zappa fact wrong.
Sketches on Housework, Parenthood and Doing Shows In Spite Of Both.
I do like to help spiders usually. The other day I karate chopped a spider web because a butterfly had just flown into it. The spider looked livid. Like the bite on my leg.
Read moreFrom Arthur Machen To William Blake and Asterix
I was going to write down what those things were, but I immediately forgot them and just added the rosy cheeks instead. Maybe my Brighton train had arrived in Victoria, or more likely, been diverted by Satan and his goats on the line at Haywards Heath.
Read moreThe Queen One
On this day, the Queen enters the Guinness Book Of Records for waving in a stilted manner while some people cheer. I’m not a fan but I was once, for my own nefarious means… The Nations Nan and My Master Plan My plotting started when Prince Charles came all the way from Royal Buckingham Palace […]
Read morePart 5 of My First Edinburgh Fringe Festival – 1995- 20 years ago today
The penultimate instalment. Too busy with current 2015 festival to write more. I thought Installment had two L’s. Predictive text has destroyed my brian* I did the ‘brian’ line there on purpose. I may be ignorant but I’m well aware of it I remember asking Joseph to stop making Dave laugh while he was driving, […]
Read morePart 4 of My First Edinburgh Fringe – 1995 – twenty years ago today
So then everyone started having delirious crushes on strangers and some kissed in cupboards at The Pleasance. Here is a rough guide. And a show report. The ‘boys’ me and Juls were trying to befriend were Dan Clark and friends – I can’t remember the name of their group now, can you? They went on […]
Read morePart 2 of Twenty Years Ago – My First Edinburgh Fringe 1995
I’ve got my old WordPress app going again and I refuse to update it. Here’s the part two but after part three because of silly silly computers
Read moreMy First Edinburgh Fringe Diary 1995 Twenty Years Ago Today – part 3. Fear Sets In
Fear sets in. It’s all right when you’re rehearsing in a small village hall and making each other laugh with ridiculously entertaining acting exercises (like the one where Nicholas Quirke, our director made me and Juls reply ‘no’ to each other’s lines when we thought it wasn’t good enough). Our first night’s stay seems to […]
Read moreJourney Fashion Daily Doodle #3
Which set of captions do you prefer and why? This journey outfit consists of a few layers as temperatures between stations, carriages and times of day vary so much in England. That’s the science bit. The rest is a farce. I keep planning a quick page and then it ends up being something else as […]
Read moreAnother Advertisement for Art School – Daily Doodle #2
Another Advertisement for Art School Today’s Daily Doodle was meant to be a comic strip about choosing clothes to suit a) long journeys by car and train b) two gigs and c) a London rehearsal day – as that’s what my outfit has to do this weekend. Luckily for people bored of blogs where outfits […]
Read moreEff Off Fashion – Daily Doodle #1
Today’s doodle ‘Treat Day, Aged 42’ was meant to document the happy little moments in my day so far but I got waylaid after drawing what I’m wearing today. Don’t worry, I’m not going to do a middle aged woman’s anti fashion blog. I have far too many books to read, friends and family to […]
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