Headline: Pollution on Britain's beaches has increased by 90%, according to the Marine Conservation Society. Main causes cited are "individual action" and "fishing debris".

Friday, April 20, 2007 11:33:26 AM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)    Comments [0] 

Here's page 20 of How the Brigardier Came to the Castle of Gloom...

Conan Doyle caused me a bit of a problem here, bless him, in describing a long, exciting sword fight. Unfortunately, your actual cavalry sabre is something of a slash-and-run terror weapon, being no good for an acrobatic Zorro-style swordfight since the first blow would be fatal, or at least disabling. The nearest equivalent would be a fight with samurai swords, which start (in Yojimbo at least) with a long period of stillness followed by a sudden, shocking, fatal blow (Samurai Jack's swordfights have nothing to do with reality). OK for a manga comic, but not what's described here. In the end I got most of the dramatic poses in the lower half of this page from various websites about Kung Fu sword fighting. This seems to use a similar style of sword (but shorter) but is all about using your body to outmanouvre your opponent ~ lots of dramatic leaping about, and it looks good in a cartoon strip!

Friday, April 20, 2007 11:20:13 AM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)    Comments [0] 

Headline: Despite criticisms over poor hygeine and lax bio-security, turkey meals manufacturer Bernard Matthews is to get £589.326 compensation for birds destroyed during a recent outbreak of bird 'flu on his farm.

Thursday, April 19, 2007 10:52:36 AM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)    Comments [0] 

This is page 19 of our current Brigadier Gerard story, How the Brigadier Came to the Casdtle of Gloom...

Since the hero of this story is French, I decided to use French comic sound effects throughout the strip. I didn't need Ronan Jouan de Kervenoel, our translator, for this, I just lifted most of them from my copies of Asterix.

Thursday, April 19, 2007 10:47:44 AM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)    Comments [0] 

Headline: Barclays Bank are to issue hand-held 'pinsentry' security devices to all their on-line customers.

Wednesday, April 18, 2007 10:44:10 AM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)    Comments [0] 

And now for the latest page of our on-going Brigardier Gerard story, How the Brigadier Came to the Castle of Gloom...

The labels on the barrels in frame 1 read "gunpowder" in French and Polish. I reasoned that a brigand such as Jean Carabin would have stolen supplies from both armies.

Wednesday, April 18, 2007 10:41:38 AM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)    Comments [0] 

Headline: Governor of the Bank of England forced to explain himself to Government after UK inflation rises to 3.1%

Tuesday, April 17, 2007 10:08:25 AM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)    Comments [0] 

Here's the latest page of How the Brigadier Came to the Castle of Gloom...

Tuesday, April 17, 2007 10:05:54 AM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)    Comments [0] 

Headline: British TV channel Five has warned that children's cartoon characters the Mister Men will be shown on their channel next year.

Monday, April 16, 2007 9:28:04 AM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)    Comments [0] 

Here's page 16 of our latest Brigadier Gerard adventure, How the Brigadier Came to the Castle of Gloom...

Monday, April 16, 2007 9:25:01 AM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)    Comments [0] 

...and the next exciting episode of NICK MILLER, HERO OF SPACE...!!

Sunday, April 15, 2007 9:06:33 AM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)    Comments [0] 

Here's the latest page of our Conan Doyle Brigadier Gerard story, How Gerard Came to the Castle of Doom...

Sunday, April 15, 2007 9:04:18 AM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)    Comments [0] 

Page fourteen of our latest Brigadier Gerard story, How Gerard Came to the Castle of Doom...

Saturday, April 14, 2007 10:52:01 AM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)    Comments [0] 

We've just been experimenting with a new website called Bountee. Basically it's a bit like flikr, but it's a site where you can create your own t-shirt designs and sell them.

You can either create t's using the site's ready-made facilities, or upload your own artwork (you'll need it as an SVG file to do this). We tried it and created a T-shirt with this design:

... Bountee says it takes about 24 hours for them to approve a design, after which, you'll all be able to buy it for the paltry sum of just under £15 nicker. Just go to Bountee.com and search for 'heart'. You'll need a Paypal account, but hey, who hasn't got one of those these days? Form an orderly queue, now...

Friday, April 13, 2007 9:13:24 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)    Comments [0] 

TWO HEADLINES IN ONE! One lot of scientists have found a definite link between genetics and obesity. MEANWHILE, another lot of scientists have developed immature sperm from human bone marrow. SCORE!

Friday, April 13, 2007 9:47:33 AM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)    Comments [0] 

The latest page of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's How Gerard Came to the Castle of Gloom...

I must admit I had trouble with the lady's dress at this point. It's faithful to the regency style of the time, but unfortunately, it looked to me rather like a nightie, making it appear that she had rushed out of bed to meet them and forgotten her dressing-gown - a little immodest for a high-born lady of the time. In the end, I added jewellery and other accessories in the hope that this would make her appear a little less deshabille.

Friday, April 13, 2007 9:43:21 AM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)    Comments [0]