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Do you ever get hand cramp?

I have done recently, it’s not nice. I’ve also found work­ing near an open window, where the draft blows across my mouse hand can result in pain. The other day, after a few late nights of mess­ing with Illus­tra­tor my elbow began hurt­ing, having been held at a right angle for too long. I tell you, doo­dling and com­put­er­ing can be a dan­ger­ous business!

What is the biggest doodle you’ve ever done and could of it have been bigger?

The biggest hand drawn doodle I’ve done was for the Miss Sixty hotel in Italy, it spanned most of the room. Also Doo­dling for pictoplasma’s exhi­bi­tion in Peter­bor­ough with Sune Ehlers was pretty big. Print-​wise I’ve just com­pleted a giant 27meter long snake time­line mon­ster for the Sci­ence Museum, that’s quite big, but of course, you could always doodle it or print it bigger. And anyway I’ve always though it’s not size that’s impor­tant, it’s the doodley-​ness.

Apart from illus­tra­tion what other things are you into?

I like making salads. And then eating them.

Who are your favourite artists/illustrators alive today?

That’s always a tricky ques­tion; let me have a think about it…

Jamie Hewlett is pretty damn good and so is James Jean. There are tons of great people knock­ing about today. It’s hard to really choose. Chris Ware is tops, not my style of course, but amaz­ingly won­der­ful and so pro­lific. Is three enough, do I have to men­tion more? Actu­ally ques­tions like me feel pretty self-​conscious, I don’t like them really.

You did a Com­puter Arts cover recently and so did Jere­myville. Out of you and Jeremy, who do you think got paid more?

Haha! Prob­a­bly Jeremy, I hear he’s quite the super­star doo­dler! When I com­pare prices with some of my friends I always seem to get less for jobs, so maybe that’s no dif­fer­ent, who knows really, maybe I’ll email Jeremy and ask him…

… oh it seems we got about the same.

Are you involved in any col­lab­o­ra­tive projects at the moment and is there anyone you would like to work with?

I’m work­ing with the mul­ti­tal­ented doodle king Sune Ehlers on the next part of the Hello Duudle series, it’s called Hello Zuudle. It’s mainly focused on crea­tures and ani­mals. I’m also work­ing with a musi­cian on a tech­ni­cal nerdy project that should be inter­est­ing or a com­plete mess, or per­haps both. There are many people I’d love to work with but it’s not just about work­ing with some­one cool, it’s having the right project to col­lab­o­rate on together.

What’s next in the pipeline for Jon Burgerman?

I’m hoping my toys will appear soon, the delays have been quite hor­ren­dous to be honest. I’m also going to do less work, and by that I mean less illus­tra­tion stuff. I think I’ve done enough for the moment and I want a bit more time to work on my other projects amongst new draw­ings and paintings.

Shouts?

Shouts? I don’t understand… Is this some kind of new young per­sons speak?

Hells kitchen or Wife swap?

Wife Swap, both fea­tur­ing shriek­ing idiots though.

Coco or Tiddles?

Coco, he’s greedy, grubby and some­times has wind. Tid­dles is a minxy char­la­tan up to no good.

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