I've been drawing stickmen for about 4 years now. Probably as a kid I had drawn a stick man at some point, but school always said I shouldn't do art because I was a spaz, so possibly I was just typing 'BOOBLESS' using a calculator instead. Thanks QEGS you uninspiring set of capitalist bastards!

I've done around 400 of these drawings to date, a lot of which I've published on Facebook, and there is a small selection on this blog. There have been a fair few people who've seen these and encouraged me to release them properly in some way, as a product. I didn't feel like selling out for a long time, and also had that trial of self-belief where I thought they would be ununderstandable to anyone other than myself or the most dysfunctional of friends I have.

After talking at Cornerhouse before Christmas, where I randomly showed some of these doodles, I noticed people were actually laughing, or at least feeling sorry for me and going 'ahhhh' as they connected with the sentiment portrayed.

This lead me to do anti-Xmas cards featuring stickman and various course or crude messages summing up the realist's view of the paper-thin pseudo religious holiday. (e.g. 'Xmas - Responsible for 99% of domestic suicides. Have a good one!'). These cards sold out quickly, scarily quickly...

Thanks to the unquivering support of my number 1 fan, my amazing girlfriend Jo, I felt maybe this stuff did have a place in the world, and produced prints of 11 of my drawings, ranging in subject matter from the insanely loving, to the deepest depths of dark, depraved mental illness (over-dramatic to the end).

These prints are all very short runs, about 10 to 30 of each, and I probably won't reproduce these particular designs ever again. I've tried to keep them as affordable as possible in respect of selling price, and of the cost of framing them for the owner (they fit standard Ikea frames)... This isn't an exercise for profit, it's to make people smile, or cry, or at least some kind of extreme reaction such as being sick, or rupturing a spleen.

If you have 5 minutes to waste today on something other than Twitter, Facebook, and working for da Man, then please check out my shop, you can use the discount code 'BOYBLOG40' to get 40% off print prices until the end of February. I'll be adding new prints and products over the coming months, but for now, I've spent all my cheddar on what's there so far... Hope you like!

http://shop.weareboy.co.uk