Spïjnåch

This is an old thing, but it's only just been posted to the web - I did a sketch for Hey, Oscar Wilde - It's Clobberin' Time! It's all about cartoonists drawing characters (or their authors) from literature. Well worth browsing through the rest of the site while you're there.


It's been all scripting this week, apart from a couple of covers which if I showed them to you would SPOIL EVERYTHING so I'm not going to. Nyah. I can tell you that Muppet Show #5 will contain the words Brobdignagia, Trunticled and Spïjnåch.

The Comic Supplement

Lots of writing at the moment as I get caught up. So - not a lot of pretty pictures to share with you... you'll have to settle for my manky old sketches. Meanwhile, a crust of inky shellac forms on the rim of the inkpot, welding the lid onto it like cement...



Been reading a rather good biography of W.C. Fields lately. There's a lot of interesting stuff about a revue he appeared in when he was a Broadway star called The Comic Supplement, in which the acts represented "strips" in a conceptual Sunday Funnies section, and it struck me that I'm far from the first person to combine vaudeville and comics. Genuine vaudevilleans beat me to it by about 80 years.

Doing the Hokey Kokey

Okay, Muppeteers -- the next story arc situation is sorted out, and basically it means things have been switched around and a later story arc has been moved forward. And in a funny kind of way, it's worked out for the best -- because there's a big surprise coming up for long-time Muppet fans, and it's one we've managed to avoid foreshadowing in Previews and online publicity thanks to the switch... so when you see it, it'll really be a surprise. I'll say no more.

Last week I finished writing a Hulk one-shot for Marvel, which was great fun to do. I'm talking about doing more work for them, but only after I've caught up on my Muppet commitments... which I'm running kind of late with at the moment. Time to get to that keyboard. Fly, little fingers... fly like the wind!

Man vs Mouse

Not the greatest week for Muppet-related matters, as I've just been told that my next two plotlines have some sort of issue as far Disney are concerned... but they haven't told me what. And there are no obvious problem areas as far as I can see. So everything's on hold there until I hear something. In the meantime I'm getting some work done for Marvel and hoping my schedule won't be a complete train wreck by the time Disney finally tell me what I can and can't do. I suppose I can't complain too much, I've had a good run. I believe this happens all the time to anybody working on a Disney property. I've just been phenomenally lucky in avoiding it up until now.


Anyway, I hope everybody had a great New Year's celebration. Here's what would have been one of the covers to issue 5 (and may still be yet -- fingers crossed). Have a great 2010, won't you?