The Bramble Vine Sketchbook

This book collects a sampling of pages from a cartoonist's sketchbook. For a cartoonist, a sketchbook is less a diary and more a workshop bench cluttered with half built contraptions. It is a laboratory where noses are stretched too far, punchlines collapse under their own weight, and characters try on expressions the way actors try on hats. Here, proportions wobble, jokes misfire, and ideas are allowed to be awkward. This is where mistakes earn their keep. It is where the rough draft mutters to itself before it ever speaks clearly.