Since 2012 I’ve been commuting loads for work and I actually really enjoy it ! 🚂✨ I value the distance between work and home, I enjoy knowing two cities really well and getting involved with both and I find travelling by train quite romantic ~ the scenery, the time you get to listen to an album all the way through, time to read, write, draw, knit (or sleep!) I also definitely have one of those faces that people want to talk to, and like it or not I’ve met some right characters on my commute. Some joyful, some obnoxious, some silly, some friends even ! I started to draw the characters on and off during my long commutes south and back up north again - not a face mask in sight, unlike today. I have complied them into an illustrated 28 page zine printed by the awesome Ex Why Zed ✨
My plan was to pop some of them randomly back out on my commute - I liked the idea of some of them travelling around on their own journeys maybe brightening up a lonely journey for someone or cutting through the monotony of the everyday ~ but that’s unlikely now ! Who knows when we’ll be able to travel in the same way... Here are a few pages - see more here
