A silly, non sequitur cartoon about Bishop Stumbers subbing in for an Amblin Entertainment employee based on a friend's birthday visit to Madame Tussauds in Sydney last month.
It took me a lot of tries to end up with the final felt-pen inkwork yesterday followed by spending the night adding the colour digitally on the computer. Then I gave it a few final, finishing tweaks this morning. Vincent Cavanagh 9 April 2026  15 March 2026 sketchbook (detail) ~ Vincent Cavanagh © 2026 First-quarter Blog Digest for 2026. What’s been happening. Website-wise, there are now ‘next-post, last-post’ buttons at the bottom of each World Youth Day Lisbon blog post for ease of navigation through that series. It just took a lot of time, repetition, and wrangling with the Weebly website editor to get it done. Hooray!  Current versus possible future CavanaghArt logo mascots ~ Vincent Cavanagh © 2026. Art-wise, I did have a day spent doodling out ideas for Bishop Stumbers cartoons, which was a positive. Most of them were about what said bishop might get involved in on a WYD pilgrimage. We shall see if some of them might get developed beyond their initial ballpoint drafts. Rattling about my brain at the moment is a possibility of re-drawing the CavanaghArt bird logos to better reflect my current style of art. The original set of birdies are well and truly about a decade old at this point, in 2026, and I’m certainly not the same artist I was back then. Whether anything actually happens on this idea, or it just keep rattling around my head, is another matter. Also, after the suggestion of a friend, I have been down the rabbit hole of investigating what it would take to self-produce stickers from my art and my conclusion was that, for me, it would be far more effort than it was worth. The shear amount of equipment, testing of cutting depths, sticker paper stocks, lamination, and software quirks is, to my mind, on a par with near-professional, home coffee-brewing: metric scales, correct dosage of coffee beans, the right grind size, purified water, puck preparation, flow rate, etcetera. I already have enough furores of my own with trying to convince the home printer to print on the paper-card stock I want it to. The last thing I want is to increase the number of machines throwing hissy fits in my face because it’s the wrong phase of the moon when I’m at my wits end racing to print something off for a special occasion the following morning. I’m not ruling out that stickers might happen, just that doing-it-myself is not for me. On the personal front, after 2025, I’m still recovering from burnout. Though it’s not helpful when one continues to get sucked into the temporal blackholes of YouTube (the “new” smoking), be overwhelmed by dehumanising discourse around ‘Artificially Intelligent’ generation of images online, and catching oneself interrogating any creative idea for art that pops up with whether, or not, it passes cost-benefit analysis. Talk about being brain-rinsed into mechanistic thinking, oi vey! It’s all indicative of the fact that there’s been a distinct lack of humour in my life of late. All fret and no play makes for a crabby, frustrated artist. The sensible thing would be to just say, “stuff the lot of it (AI generation) and do it (Art) anyway!” without expectation for it to — ahem — “perform well.”  2026 Lunar New Year celebrations. (Photo: Vincent Cavanagh © 2026) Thankfully, there have been some diversions in the form of meeting up with WYD friends at a Lunar New Year’s celebration, birthday party invites, wandering around the odd bookshop or two, colouring projects for others, and the odd heritage train ride here and there. A main issue for me is a lack of motivation and sufficient reason for me to overcome lethargy and get outside, physically and mentally. ■ Seoul Issues South Korean flag waving on the evening of the WYD Lisbon Vigil. (Vincent Cavanagh © 2023) I know that one should “never say never”, but with where I’m at right now I don’t see myself going to Korea in 2027 for World Youth Day Seoul. Don’t get me wrong, I do have strong emotions towards the next WYD, and more so the friendships born of the last one, but that doesn’t out-weigh knowing first-hand what the shear toll a WYD pilgrimage can be on a person and how much it truly demands of them. Which isn’t anything I’m willing to put myself through again—especially if it’s not what God intends me to do. At the end of the day, it’s all in His hands, not mine. ■ 2026 Q1 Blog posts8 Jan 2026 – Year in Review: 2025. 18 Feb 2026 – First new bit of art that I have made in a long while. 27 Feb 2026 – Back to Loftus for the annual Tramway Festival. 3 Mar 2026 – Finally posting about the farewell V Set trip to Kiama last year. ■ Parting NotesOn a more positive note, I’ll leave you readers with this Part 2 video by Daniel Folta detailing his process of depicting the Nativity in oil paint. For myself, it is a calm and meditative experience watch him bring his painting to life.
■ What is a “Blog Digest”?It’s me trying something different. To present a Quarterly “quick guide” to the blog posts that I’ve made in the preceding three months, as well as sharing any articles of YouTube videos that I’ve found interesting. Like a regular digest: what’s happened, what did you miss, I found this interesting, and such like. Also, it’s meant to be something manageable for myself to accomplish and not be something so huge that I dread even thinking about it and just end up leaving it languishing in the dustbin. Here’s lookin’ at you, RANDOM Things. ■ 2025 Q4 Blog posts31 Oct 2025 – A new Bishop comic for All Hallows’ Eve. 1 Dec 2025 – Announcing my 2026 Calendar as being ready to order. ■ Parting NotesAnd yes, I think that there will be a Year In-Review: 2025 blog post uploaded sometime in January 2026, but I don’t expect it to be much more than a brief recap of the year. He writes. I’ll leave you readers with this video about the history of the original Star Wars (1977) posters by Paper and Light. Until next time, Merry Christmas everyone! ( ‘Tis a Season! ) Vincent Cavanagh 29 December 2025  Vincent Cavanagh © 2024 Merry Christmas and a Happy Jubilee of Hope to you all for 2025!
Vincent Cavanagh 25 Dec 2024 Surrealism incoming! Illustrated 30 March 2024  Vincent Cavanagh, 2024 A spotlight on Bishop Stumbers’ short-lived career in stand-up comedy. Congratulations to anyone who “gets” the cameo appearances on the far side table ;) With apologies to Messrs Astley and Baker. Vincent Cavanagh 30 Mar 2024 / Holy Saturday Illustrated 1 January 2023
 ©VincentCavanagh 2022 Yes, I’m finally back on the blog again. For however long that may be.
And the subject that brought not just me but also Bishop Stumbers and the Dean back? Vocations.
So last fortnight I did something for the first time that I thought I would never do: I made a #MayThe4th cartoon, featuring Bishop Stumbers.
'Bishop Stumbers, May The 4th' Vincent Cavanagh © 2022
It’s been a long time since I’d last put a physical pen to paper. It was also nice that it was a fairly simply concept to draw.
For the red accent I used a Copic marker, and I think it helped to tie the whole picture together. I also adjusted the contrast of the image on my computer before it was read to share. Yesterday (17 May 2022) I finally got around to editing and uploading to my YouTube Channel the videos I took of the ride on the Puffing Billy Railway that my father and I took on our family holiday back in March 2019. It’s of the return journey from Gembrook to Belgrave in the Dandenong Ranges, east of Melbourne. Enjoy.
So, until next time, stay safe and God Bless.
~ Vincent Cavanagh, 18 May 2022. On Sunday (13 March 2022) my Instagram account, cavanaghcreative*, was hacked; through my own fault in responding to a message of help from another acquaintance on Instagram and for not seeking proper outside advice (ie. my IT-expert father) as to whether this message was legitimate or not. It almost certainly wasn’t legit. I don’t know how, but somehow through interacting with the (as yet unknown) hacker gave them a way or permission to kick me out of my own account and change both the phone number, email address and password; and thus, totally remove any future ability on my part to regain the account. It was 3 days later, on the Wednesday (16 March 2022), that a friend texted me with the conformation that I was hacked. They had received the exact same message as I had, but this time it was using my Instagram profile to do its dirty trickery. (see image below).  This is the same message that fooled me. DO NOT Respond to it. Thankfully I never linked my Instagram messages to Facebook Messenger; I have no idea how much worse this whole fiasco could have been if I had. From an email from a fellow artist on Instagram, I learnt that my Instagram Stories [short videos] had been taken over by content promoting Bitcoin**, just like my acquaintance’s account had started doing in the weeks before I received/responded to the fake message. Thus began a very trying time for me that lasted the remainder of the week, and following weekend, to twice try and confirm my identity/ownership of cavanaghcreative to Instagram through their Instagram Selfie-ID system. Which from my personal experience I can say, in the most polite way possible, ain’t worth a cracker. Yes, I have grown a beard [which shouldn’t really matter with facial recognition] since my profile picture was taken, which for the record actually is a photo of me — not a puppy or an oblique, black and white arty photograph, but an actual, front on, photograph of my face, in colour. (And yes, even just writing about this is enough to make my blood boil again.) And furthermore, there is/was a photo (or two) of myself taken with other human beings on my Instagram page, which to any other reasonable layman should have been more than enough telemetry/bio-data for Instagram (or parent company Facebook) to check against the two Selfie-videos I sent them to confirm my identity as the legitimate owner of the hacked account, cavanaghcreative. During this time I proceeded to the best of my abilities to warn family, friends and general acquaintances through texts, messaging apps, and posts on both Facebook and Twitter, that: — my Instagram was Hacked; — NOT to respond to any private Instagram messages from me (ie. cavanaghcreative); — if they themselves were on Instagram, to please flag the account as being Hacked/Spam; — and to unfollow cavanaghcreative and Block it from contacting them in future.  This is what the account looks like now. The arrow and warning were added by me. On 21 March 2022 I received information that my former account was no longer "public" or found via Instagram’s search functionable. It was also devoid of any 'posts' or 'follower' number (see image above). Either everyone flagging cavanaghcreative as a fake account finally got through to Instagram, or the constant barrage of reporting put the hacker off. Sadly, I just don’t know. Hopefully the hacker hasn’t just left cavanaghcreative as a trojan Private Account; but again, I don’t know. I would like to thank those who did flag the account as hacked and hopefully stopped any more people from getting hacked through my own personal mistake, but that doesn’t mean that there aren’t other account for this hacker or many others to keep on tricking people. So, with that in mind, and given that I have no wish to give Instagram the satisfaction of my creating another account† just for them to inflate their subscription/member numbers, I have taken the step of removing myself from Instagram. As of 13 March 2022, I am no longer on Instagram. The app has also been obliterated from my smartphone. For the foreseeable future I will now be focusing my energies on posting content to this blog, not on social media. Which on reflection is probably a good thing, given how (cough cough) irregularly I’ve been posting on here up until now. Until next time, God bless, stay safe and avoid any badly worded messages or emails. ~ Vincent Cavanagh, 29 March 2022. * To the best of my ability I have removed all links to cavanaghcreative, on Instagram, from this website and other social media profiles.
** I have never joined, been a part of, or promoted Bitcoin, and I never intend to. If you see any of my accounts start promoting such twaddle, know that that account has been hacked and proceed accordingly. † As far as I could find out, unless you happen to be a world-famous celebrity or have taken your story to a tv news outlet, the only real advice that Instagram gives in these situations where you cannot regain access to the account is to just make another Instagram account. Hardly what a layperson might call “consumer care”. And I most certainly did not want to have go through talking to their robot-helpline. Over a period of 37 days and multiple attempts here at last is my first 3D animation in Blender 3D with the assistance of Bishop Stumbers. Admittedly I didn't think his voice was going to be so deep, such is life. Below is a little gallery of Bishop Stumbers focusing on different aspects of the model. Enjoy! |
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