History Lesson

Here's a little curiosity for you: the first time I drew Kermit the Frog for publication, way back in 1990 - and completely unauthorised, I'm afraid. We (my brother Andrew, who wrote it, and I) plead satirical intent. This first appeared in Art d'Ecco #2, published by Fantagraphics.

Axe Me No Questions

There's a thread going on at the moment on the message boards of the rather wonderful Art & Story podcast about sharing your early work, so in the spirit of that, here's something I did more than 20 years ago, around the time I was just starting to get published in student rags and fanzines. Script is by my brother Andrew. I seem to recall that "Axe of the Apostles" was meant to be a catch-all title for an occasional series of short pieces, but in the end we only did two. Only one of which was ever accepted for publication. By a magazine which was immediately cancelled.

A little microcosm of the following two decades, had I but known it at the time.