This instalment of the Dalek Game is for Robert Graves’ I, Claudius. Most of my exposure to Graves’ writing is his poetry, but I remember my parents reading out extracts of Goodbye to All That (my father was rereading it when I was studying Remarque‘s All Quiet on the Western Front and The Road Back), and the description of walking past a German restaurant and hearing “intense sounds of eating” coming from inside. Mostly I wanted to draw a Dalek in a toga (having recently had cause to illustrate an “asparagus dressed Italian style” for the limited edition Conflux cookbook).
October 15, 2011 at 11:39 am
I like this one – a Dalek in a toga! But I would suggest you have created a dual-purpose drawing in this post: it could also be called Dalek House and the Dalek is Blutarsky wearing that infamous toga (the John Belushi character in Animal House)
October 22, 2011 at 5:16 pm
I haven’t seen that yet! Should I?
October 26, 2011 at 3:03 am
I don’t know if I would see it again. I saw Animal House when it first came out and I do recall it was “R” rated in the U.S. and in my mind deserved that rating. It has its funny moments, for certain…but I admit I would not watch it now.
October 15, 2011 at 1:15 pm
Mmm, yes I thought he was a little too dressed-up to be I, Robot ;)
October 15, 2011 at 5:36 pm
Yes, me too! (And I get them in my RSS reader where pictures load slowly so I had a few seconds to think that)
October 22, 2011 at 5:16 pm
One of my multi-purpose Daleks :)
October 15, 2011 at 2:11 pm
Daleks wear togas very well.
Why does this one make me want to adapt Ancient Roman recipes to create dalek cuisine?
October 22, 2011 at 5:16 pm
Because our brains are broken in complementary ways?
October 22, 2011 at 5:19 pm
Which means that I should start forthwith on an alternate history (dalek universe) cookbook.
October 15, 2011 at 4:20 pm
I am sure I saw him at the UQ Toga Party in the early Nineties…
October 22, 2011 at 5:17 pm
This explains so much.
October 16, 2011 at 12:18 pm
[...] Errantry: Who would’ve thought that there were so many ways to draw a Dalek? As a Doctor Who tragic, therefore, I have to follow this for a mandatory laugh twice a week or so. My favourite, as a bit of a Roman History dork, is the latest: I, Dalek. [...]
October 17, 2011 at 11:40 pm
I shared this with my family; high marks all around!
He does sort of look a little like John Belushi, come to think of it. :)
October 22, 2011 at 5:17 pm
:D Thanks!