Andy's Cartoons


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1) Chemistry: Conference on Regognition Processes, Birmingham, UK, 1994

Emil Fischer: Emil Fischer received the Nobel prize in 1894 for his 'lock and key' principle, upon which biochemistry and supramolecular chemistry have their foundations.

Molecular Recognition: I wasn't the first to come up with this and nor, unfortunately, will I be the last.

Key: One of my favourites.

Frechet: This one is bad. Possibly the worst, and I mean that in all senses.

Texas: Based on something in a lecture, but I can't remember what.

Dervan: Because his lecture contained long reels of DNA sequences.

Computational Chemistry: I think other people have done this one as well, but it's always good for a laugh.

Reid: Professor Fraser-Read asked for a copy of this for his wall. Most notable, however, was when a coworker burst into the office in disgust that I had "drawn him black". With professor Fraser-Reid being an African-American, I don't know to this day what she expected me to do.

Jean-Marie: I rather like this one, and so did others at the time, but I don't know what Jean-Marie Lehn thought.

Rat Dreams: It was my righteous student days... They wouldn't print this one.

The End: The end of the conference finally came.

Tetraplex: I deemed this good enough for colour, but few other did.

Kiedrowski: Andy Robertson was particularly fond of this.

2) Chemistry: BAAS Conference, Birmingham, UK, 1996

Clock: OK, I admit it's a very bad joke.

Lord Lewis: Not much to say about this.

Table: Oh yes! One of the all time greats. Shame noone else thought so.

Risky: I didn't even submit this for publication. In fact there was another that is too dodgy even to go on this page.

Kroto: Celebrating Sir Harry Kroto's, um, 1995? Nobel prize for the discovery of C60.

Short Pressure: OK.

Long Pressure: I liked the drawing on this.

Knights: Another top ten hit.

Joe: Very bad joke.

Shakespeare: Although I thought a little weak, this was the popular favourite at the time.

3) Miscellanious

Pete's T-Shirt: Designed as a leaving present from the JFS group for the acclaimed supramolecular chemist Dr Peter Glink.

Editor: Drawn after the editor of a newsletter went on a particularly ill-considered red pen-spree.

Paper: I don't remember where this comes from, but it's based on something I did for a Freak Brothers Society Magazine.

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