The Autumn Special was meant to run in the autumn but then it was moved to the summer. It takes place in the autumn. If I haven’t changed this by the time it runs, I guess I have made peace with certain decisions. At least it’s not about toilets.
Autumn Special 2022
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Poor Fizz. We barely got to know this sweet dim bulb. Hopefully she and Charlotte will meet again.
Karen Grote has done her best with Lottie. As parenting tasks go, it’s been like trying to herd cats made of mercury in the dark.
We all need a friend like Hazeema, willing to push us into a lift shaft.
Allow me to post an instructional video below about the paternoster lift in the Sheffield Arts Tower. I used to ride it all the time and it gave me the greatest joy. Whenever I go back to the city, I try to have a blast on this beauty.
There’s a point in this comic where you can detect how completely I’ve internalised the logic of Seinfeld. It’s not the panel where Charlotte is flanked by both Energy Crow and a bat. That’s my own thing.
I hope you enjoy Claire’s Polish “Blue Velvet” poster. About £300 for an original last time I looked.
One of the reasons I like writing Charlotte stories that they open up all sorts of peculiar notions to write about. She doesn’t think like anybody else, which leads to terms like “international nocturnes”. It’s a good mindset to write in.
A blessing for me, perhaps, but possibly a curse for poor Glenn (Glyn? Glemm? Gerg?) Durgan there.
Fans of Grace Paley’s work will be well aware that ‘Enormous Changes At The Last Minute’ is a slim volume. Glenn’s version features the entire script of the Kevin Bacon/Ellen Barkin film adaptation in the back, along with several decorative “plates” featuring stills from the film.
Knowing how much my readers love video game references, I thought I’d deliver another grade A zinger. I’ve never played Pokémon, but I’ve certainly discussed it with my young nephew for what may be days of my life by now, and it is a fool who does not take note of someone who knows much more than they.
I think about how things might Pokémon evolve… all the time.
It’s time for us to talk about Noel Edmonds’ cosmic ordering self-help book. It contained various programs of moon-minded manifestation techniques. Noel was one of the biggest draws on British radio and TV for decades, and then he was not, and I think it sent him round the twist. He also endorsed a magic radio that supposedly cured cancer.
Perhaps in the comments under the comic, some UK-based readers could fill in the finer brush strokes of Noel Edmonds’ career and speak on why his self-help book inevitably retails at 1p + shipping. I imagine that Lottie found a copy in a “free stuff” box on the pavement and decided that anything was “worth a go”.