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Sketched 7 July 2026. Digitally coloured 8 July 2026.  ‘Socket-Head's new attitude (coloured)’ ~ Vincent Cavanagh © 2026 Out with the spandex and in with the cargo pants! I just haven’t been “clicking” with the ol’ purple leggings on Socket-Head of late when I’ve been sketching him, and then two nights ago it finally hit me: cargo pants (well, actually shorts). It finally provided an anchor to the bottom half of the disaster-prone electrician-slash-plumber’s design, as well as giving him a more plausible outfit. That of a dogsbody fix-it man forced to wear a company-slash-mascot headgear during callouts. Hence the unintentional ‘Daria’-esque demeanour plastered across Socket's face. And, yes, the “lore” (as it is) has moved on a bit since Socket’s first appearance.  ‘Socket-Head's new attitude (original sketch)’ ~ Vincent Cavanagh © 2026 I digitally colourised this ballpoint pen sketch from last night this afternoon. The colours where already filling my mind’s eye after I’d put down the pen. Also, I do know that the anatomy in this sketch is janky. It’s a sketch. Vincent Cavanagh 8 July 2026 *ALL COMMENTS CLOSED DUE TO SPAM*
Artwork created 26 May 2026.  ‘Single Male Catholic: Unspoken Hi’ ~ Vincent Cavanagh © 2026 I have nothing more to add.
Vincent Cavanagh 26 May 2026 Artwork created 21–22 May 2026.  ‘Single Male Catholic: Youth Event Disappointments’ ~ Vincent Cavanagh © 2026 Truly, why do we as Catholics go out of our way to prevent (non-professional) young adults from meeting others like them?
“Yes, welcome to the Faith, but don't ever fraternise with anyone else but God while you're here. Thank you ever so much.” 💀 Vincent Cavanagh 22 May 2026 Artwork created 15, 17 May 2026.
“Rakuran. Rakuran san-sei.”
Portraits of some friends in the style of a known Japanese cartoon that I’m never likely to watch beyond random clips of it online. Why did I do it? Because it was a goofy idea that sparked joy in me, and I wanted to make it happen. Vincent Cavanagh 21 April 2026
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 It’s not actually been a year, but it has certainly felt like it since I had made a new artwork. The drought broke on February 14th when I received a request from fellow creative and poet Alexandra Pierotti to draw my own version of a Christian meme that can often be found circulating on social media sites in one form or another for a personal project of her own. She has kindly given me permission to share this with you, for which I am truly grateful 🙏
I had three false starts, which would begin okay and then, after a point, I’d go and add too much detail that pushed it beyond legibility. All before my brain had time to react to what I was doing. Recalling a previous (unpublished) “doodle”, something finally clicked for me. What I needed to do was cartoon, not illustrate like it was going to be a submission to a scientific journal or something.
 The completed artwork. ~ Vincent Cavanagh © 2026 You can find Alexandra Pierotti’s poetry on her blog at Poetry For Wellmindedness. Her latest works of poetry can be found on Facebook.
Vincent Cavanagh 18 February 2026  'The Bishop: Off To Holy Wins' ~ Vincent Cavanagh © 2025 A brief explainer on what is Holy Wins/Holywins can be found in this Catholic News Agency article here and, yes, the Bishop now has a live-in/pet(?) dinosaur called Hotspur.  Months, more months, and Saints! (Photo: by Author) And in other news—after having the thought of it gnawing at the back of my brain for what felt like half the year—I finally began preparing Month–pages for a 2026 Calendar on Sunday, 26 October 2025. Hooray!
Photographs for each month are currently still in the selection phase. Yes, photographs. This upcoming calendar will be a collection of images of the different places that I visited in 2025. And because of all the effort that I poured into trying to pull together Jubilee Year 2025 grassroots–young adult pilgrimages to the Shrines of Hope in my diocese left me both mentally, physically and emotionally drained, such that I have had no impetus to do anything artistic whatsoever for the majority of 2025. Save for the painting of St Clare of Assisi back in July, of course. Which is why the comic at the top of this blog post, for me, is a significant win. I will endeavour to keep you all informed about further 2026 Calendar developments when they are worthy of promulgation. A happy and holy Hallowtide to you all folks! Vincent Cavanagh 31 October 2025  ©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. There is a chance that weekday routine will return on Monday, or soon after, depending on how soon new weekday Mass schedules are decided upon. Hopefully, when that happens, a measure of normality and especially creative normality will return. In the mean time, two of the Inktober Socket Head pictures got coloured:  Day 25, Tasty  Day 23, Ancient And a 'looking to the future' meme/comic  And some sketches that might be preparation for a 3D version of this red tugboat:  And the front view  Here's to hoping that fruitful new beginnings are around the corner for all of us as this long pause begins to lift away.
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