The following is a selection from 25 images I produced for 'The Great Australian Book of Limericks' published by Allen & Unwin. Writer Jim Haynes arranged more than a thousand limericks according to their type. From the witty and the whimsical to the downright vulgar, each section opened with one of my illustrations. Medium: Pen & ink, coloured in Photoshop.
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