Dec 19, 2016
Not everyone in history has been a fan of Christmas. From the 1640’s to the Restoration in 1660, the celebration of Christmas and other saints’ days was prohibited on paper (if not in practice). Contrary to popular belief, this was not Oliver...
Dec 15, 2016
History has always been my passion, but Military History is a key interest within that. Battles have been central to British History too, so it’s no surprise that there are some more violent elements to my debut book Drawn From History. Well, cartoon...
Dec 13, 2016
A new set of James Mellor Cartoon Christmas Cards are now available to buy via thortful. This year’s incredibly Christmassy designs feature drug-laced snowmen, reindeer-on-reindeer violence, over enthusiastic gift buyers and a familiar sleigh-pulling line up....
Nov 3, 2016
Drawn From History is now published and available to buy from all good retailers Unashamedly drawn with twenty-twenty hindsight and through a modern lens, my debut book is a sideways look at the story of Britain from the end of the Ice Age to the dawn of the...
Sep 6, 2016
This Summer, my time has been largely devoted to creating the core cartoon content for my upcoming book – Drawn From History. There will be some exciting announcements regarding this in the days to come. For the time being I present another roundup of cartoons...
Aug 23, 2016
You probably noticed the Olympics. Â It was a big deal and we did rather well. Though the statistic of being ‘the first country to increase their medal count after hosting the previous Olympics’ is exactly the sort of niche statistic that demonstrates you...
