Someone recently pointed out to me that my cartoons provide one of the most comprehensive records of the past 40 years of the disabled people’s movement in the UK. They show the first steps of organised protest in the 1980's leading up to the present time and the affects of the Covid pandemic.

Sadly, many of the early cartoons created for printed publications such as Disability Arts In London (DAIL) magazine and the Trades Union Disability Alliance TUDA News are in a clunky greyscale format. Ideally, these all need to be reworked in order that they can be made accessible for modern online publications.

Another important reason for reinstating these cartoons in a more accessible format is that they will not only be included within a disabled people's history archive, they will also be made available to disabled equality consultants and educators to use as training and teaching aids.

As I’m well into my twilight years I’m aware that the time I currently worked on have to do this work is slowly running out. I’ve therefore decided to put most of my usual work on hold and concentrate on bringing these original works into the 21st Century. There’s some 600 cartoons, some covering the early demonstrations and protests of the 1980’s and 1990’s as well as the political shenanigans of the governments of the time and the rise and fall of the Disability Discrimination Act.

These will all need restoring, or in most cases redrawing, and I estimate that it will take me some 900 hours to do this. Obviously, when I’m doing this I’m not earning and will therefore have to look for funding to keep the wolves from the door.