In Production

I HAVE RECENTLY RETURNED to putting together all-new strips featuring my characters: the first strips [over 600 daily examples  exist] were drawn using ink on card---however in recent times I have taken up more 'modern' approaches of assembling artwork.


The original comics were extremely small, only 4 inches high-----and this had to include any lettering and sound effects as well! It is certainly possible to draw at this tiny scale, but clearly there are a lot of limitations using such a cramped outlook. My eyesight is still good enough to draw at such minute scale, however it is much more fun---and a lot less intense--------drawing the characters especially to a larger scale, and examples of this can be seen for the first time here.

These characters will be shrunken down into separate backgrounds which is my new method of attaining more polished results.

More on this later:  you can probably work out the [as yet unfinished] gag I am assembling here:






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