“Pss wss wss” is of course the way a three year old imitates whispering. And the way I still do. Shelley doesn’t do a very good job of looking after Lottie at this party, does she? I thought of this[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
As I said yesterday, this is Shelley at her sloppiest and Lottie has to become the parent, a bellwether for her too! I wish I’d explored these two as a duo in this era a bit more. Their relationship is[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
BANANAGRAMS! My friend, the cartoonist Lizz Lunney introduced me to the game around this time and I still enjoy it, though I lack playing partners now. The clackiness of the tiles is deeply satisfying. And I know all sorts of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Dead Hugo with his taped on wig falling off is quite a visceral image in my catalogue though obviously it is not grisly in the sense that, say, the film “Re-Animator” is grisly. But tonally this is a bit of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This comic has reminded me that I made this comic after watching the Death Note anime. Lottie’s persona here is very influenced by Death Note’s detective protagonist L. My idea was just that she’d watched Death Note at some point[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The top half of this page was another bit of filler from the print version. Looking at it now, I could have given it a bit more, but time was inevitably the enemy back then. First thought best thought! Better[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
In this scene, Shelley is slightly diminished compared to the go-getting version you may remember from Scary Go Round, and indeed the equally forceful iteration in Destroy History. I think it’s because in this part of the story, she’s got[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
NIGHT EXCITERS! A lot going on in this page. My favourite panel is the central one, where Lottie and Shelley are partly obscured and involved in two very different thought processes. One of the pleasures of a genre piece is[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
My favourite thing about this page is the two men having their conversation in the space over Lottie’s head. She’s inserted herself into the middle of events, but they don’t take her seriously. It’s a visual metaphor, right? yeah? WEW[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I forgot to write a caption for today’s page. I’m not sure there is anything to say about it that is not obvious from the text.
