EGGMEN Comics

I believe in Whitney Houston...

2012-01-17T10:19:00.003+11:00

...because ever since I wrote that 7th panel I can't get THAT song out of my head and I'm really sorry if it happens to you too.

Here we go 2012 - the sagas continue

2012-01-12T13:54:00.002+11:00

On the lam.

2011-12-20T12:15:00.000+11:00

Hooray for art. Again.

2011-12-20T11:06:00.002+11:00

Talkin' 'bout Granma

2011-12-13T12:34:00.003+11:00

On their way

2011-12-13T11:57:00.001+11:00

My personal vision of parental horror

2011-11-30T09:20:00.001+11:00

And so I started making comics.

And the other one

2011-11-25T14:45:00.002+11:00

Today's first of 2

2011-11-25T14:14:00.003+11:00

Oh, the humanity!

2011-11-17T12:00:00.000+11:00

And more...

2011-11-16T11:15:00.000+11:00

Some things just don't bear thinking about...

2011-11-09T11:11:00.001+11:00

Still more pulse-pounding library adventure

2011-10-27T19:50:00.000+11:00

Granma

2011-10-26T12:19:00.000+11:00

In Santa's Magic Hot Tub

2011-10-25T09:51:00.002+11:00

A short interview

2011-10-19T12:09:00.003+11:00

If anyone out there is currently spending time "engaging with notions of gender and identity" or "negotiating interfaces" or "exploring concepts of space", I offer an apology for any hurt or offence this might have caused. It was a cheap and obvious joke and an old, tired one at that.

But I had to do it.

I'm not really sorry.

More library adventure

2011-10-18T10:18:00.001+11:00

Meanwhile, at the library...

2011-10-12T19:42:00.002+11:00

I went and made a book...

2011-10-10T13:02:00.003+11:00

...and this is what the front cover is going to look like. It was a long, slow, fiddly process which I enjoyed enormously. The biggest problem was letting the thing go and calling it finished and good enough.

Included inside is almost everything so far and I'm really thrilled by the fact that, presented in some kind of consecutive order, it all seems to make some kind of sense. To me at least. But then I suppose it is my fictional delusion so it probably should.

I've just ordered the first proof from the printer and, assuming there's not too much faffing about in the wake of that, it'll be ready to go shortly.

I am just a bit excited.

A brief interlude

2011-10-05T12:20:00.002+11:00

Is this normal?

2011-09-29T11:33:00.004+10:00

Sorry for the extended break and my slackness in posting anything here for the last wee while. It was school holidays again and when junior is at home and I'm not at the day job I find myself building model aeroplanes and playing video games and going to the swimming pool. It's not hard to take but it's definitely not conducive to creative productivity.

Next time (surprise, surprise!) we get to meet these librarians.

Supergod

2011-08-31T20:23:00.001+10:00

The "Male Gaze"

2011-08-27T16:15:00.000+10:00

Facing up

2011-08-22T13:33:00.002+10:00

I think it's actually finally over. I'm all supermarketed out for now. So while our hapless and inept little friend is plunging back in again we won't be going with him.

In the merciless grip of "Whitney" and Jane

2011-08-15T09:55:00.001+10:00

Trapped

2011-08-11T09:45:00.002+10:00

Tickets?

2011-08-08T10:25:00.002+10:00

This one follows on from this one (which follows on from lots of others before it):

Escaping the supermarket, only to needlessly trap oneself at the checkout

2011-07-21T13:39:00.001+10:00

Two more

2011-07-16T16:24:00.002+10:00

I seem to be rediscovering my work ethic.

Here's a couple

2011-07-12T10:23:00.002+10:00

Aftermath

2011-07-04T10:48:00.000+10:00

Finally - the punchline

2011-06-27T13:25:00.002+10:00

Fizzy drinks

2011-06-18T13:16:00.000+10:00

Getting warmer

2011-06-06T15:23:00.000+10:00

A brand new project

2011-06-02T19:01:00.001+10:00

The banishing (as if...)

2011-05-30T10:37:00.003+10:00

You might have noticed I'm not bothering to tag these posts any more (although the list of tags to the right here will still bring up a nice range of strips - just not the most recent ones).

It's not just laziness (honestly); this strip has gotten to the stage where there are so many discontinuous and intersecting little story arcs that the mere thought of trying to group them into labelled assemblages was enough to make my head cave in. I do promise to find a better way though. That may mean moving to another web site without this chronologically-ordered thing but it definitely means a book. I'm cobbling that one together at the moment.

It's Xmas already?

2011-05-19T11:06:00.002+10:00

Deirdre

2011-05-17T11:00:00.003+10:00

I'm afraid I've resorted to filling a gap by posting some old ones again. We've had a couple of blokes rampaging through the house replacing all the windows and, for some reason, I can't seem to concentrate when the air is full of the screams of circular saws and every door in the house is letting in air that has just blown off the Antarctic ice sheet.

So - a couple of old ones. These are really early ones; at this point the little guy seemed to have an on-again/off-again girlfriend who was also a rather traditional Grim Reaper style personification of death (there's probably something terrifying that a psychologist might say regarding what this signified about my subconscious attitude to women but Deirdre was always meant to be a sympathetic figure). She kind of fell by the wayside like a lot of other little threads that have run through this series. But I might be about to bring her back.

A little psychological conundrum

2011-05-04T13:33:00.000+10:00

Here's a couple

2011-04-20T11:32:00.002+10:00

Meanwhile...

Back to the supermarket

2011-04-14T11:59:00.001+10:00

Beginning of the end

2011-04-12T11:35:00.001+10:00

And tomorrow we're flipping back to the supermarket.

Whoops...

2011-04-12T11:22:00.002+10:00

... did I say next week? I ended up going away for a little holiday to Queensland instead. Let's say next week instead (although there will actually be a couple of new ones going up this week - but probably not one of the big ones)

Now we're back up to speed...

2011-03-21T20:01:00.003+11:00

...and next week we'll continue this saga down on the ground.

One that went missing.

2011-03-21T12:33:00.003+11:00

This is the missing page I promised here - but there is actually one more to squeeze in before we've caught up with the story. I'll put that one up tomorrow.

More Teddy

2011-03-12T17:38:00.000+11:00

Getting ahead of myself

2011-03-07T12:31:00.002+11:00

This one is a little early in that there should be another page which comes before it. Given that this story arc stopped making sense a long time ago it probably doesn't matter. It should all start to cohere in the context of the new book (out later this year).

I'll post the previous page next week.

Teddy

2011-03-07T12:29:00.002+11:00

2 strips in 2 days? Looks like the holiday is over.

2011-02-23T13:51:00.002+11:00

This one follows on from here.

Fleeing the scene of the crime

2011-02-22T09:55:00.003+11:00

I know I said I'd get a new one up this week but...

2011-02-06T14:01:00.004+11:00

...but - hey - this one is new. And if you figure that the new week starts on a Monday (like I do) then this is really appearing last week. Maybe. I think.

And Tony - thanks so much for the feedback. Considering I do this in a strange little vacuum and for no good reason other than it being its own reward (usually), it's really, really good to hear from people - especially when they say nice things. I hope the strip below answers your question.

Mmm. Looking at it again, I don't know if that really clears anything up at all. The basic idea of him is that he's that nasty shadow side of our personality that drags us down and tells us were not worth shit, only brought out into the light of day as an incarnate entity in his own right. I could definitely make him nastier and more psychologically unsettling but I think people might run screaming. So he's not all that bad. But he has his moments.

I will have something new up later this week. Promise.

2011-01-30T19:56:00.002+11:00

A small offering

2011-01-24T09:01:00.004+11:00

Mmm. I've just had the sad realisation that it's been almost 3 weeks since I posted something here. Anyone who's been around this neck of the woods for a while has probably realised by now that, come the school holidays, my output rather tends to taper off (to say the least). I hope nobody's going to hold it against me - I'm only being a dutiful Dad (who, in the line of duty, has to spend countless hours playing with Lego, video games, swimming and pottering about in the garden) as well as going off to the 'day job' every day.

But the wheels are still turning, albeit slowly. In the meantime, I've copped out and dragged something out of the archive again. There will be quite a lot more of these full-page things coming out of me this year. I have little notes for them all over the house.

...or the day will seize you

2011-01-05T14:29:00.005+11:00

In case you were wondering, this started here...

Quivery.

2010-12-22T13:56:00.000+11:00

Aaargh!

2010-12-22T13:45:00.000+11:00

More mammoth

2010-12-15T19:45:00.002+11:00

Staring into the face of death and dismemberment

2010-11-30T15:28:00.001+11:00

Seize the day - you may as well

2010-11-17T16:23:00.002+11:00

An apology

2010-11-06T11:40:00.004+11:00

Just wanted to say a quick "sorry" for anyone who may have wondered where the new strip has been for the past couple of weeks. I'm addressing a purely hypothetical, interested and regular reader here. I'm not sure there is such a person but, just in case, I do apologise.

Life kind of got in the way - there's been a procession of tradesmen moving slowly through the house making lots of noise and doing all sorts of disruptive things. Then my Swedish cousins came to visit which necessitated lots of long conversations over long boozy lunches. So it's not as if my life has gone all wrong or anything but I haven't found much time to sit down and draw/write anything.

I'll be back with something new and (hopefully) fresh in the coming week. In the meantime, I've dragged a couple of old ones out of the archive. I've been a bit preoccupied with religion for a while so these seemed to suit the moment.

Getting lost in the supermarket

2010-10-20T14:18:00.000+11:00

An identity crisis

2010-10-13T14:17:00.001+11:00

A sartorial horror story

2010-10-06T13:56:00.003+11:00

We last saw this guy way back here (with a black moustache but he is a bit older now).

I was surprised and impressed to find out - after I'd written this one - that 'nicompoopery' is a real word. Like an in-the-dictionary real word. Though even if it wasn't it should be.

The babble of small boys

2010-09-29T14:02:00.004+10:00

This is pretty much a verbatim transcript of an exchange my son had with one of his friends. Except in real life it got stuck in the loop for what seemed like a much, much longer time.

There goes the fourth wall...

2010-09-25T18:50:00.002+10:00

Rat cunning and total gormlessness in the same small package

2010-09-21T10:59:00.004+10:00

That's probably it for today but it's still pretty nice out on the deck so I'm off to start a big one. We might see that tomorrow.

The birds and the peas

2010-09-21T10:15:00.003+10:00

There'll be another one up in a couple of hours. I'm on a roll today - spring has sprung and I'm sitting at a table on the deck with the washing flapping in a gentle breeze and dappled sunlight all around my feet.

The abyss

2010-09-09T21:32:00.005+10:00

The 'adventure' begins in earnest

2010-09-01T15:44:00.004+10:00

The return of 'God'

2010-08-24T16:54:00.000+10:00

Remember me saying I knew where this story was going? I lied. I have no idea.

I went mental and did an extra one today

2010-08-18T13:16:00.002+10:00

Mmm. But I notice that's eight small ones in a row.
The next one will be a big full-page thing.

Gentle coercion

2010-08-18T13:05:00.000+10:00

Rebooting

2010-08-17T16:26:00.002+10:00

Soon this place is going to be crawling with entities...

2010-08-10T13:28:00.001+10:00

While I was doing these ones I remembered what Arthur C. Clarke once said about any technology that was sufficiently advanced being indistinguishable from magic. I'd always seen this statement in terms of myself waking up 500 years in the future or some poor, hapless Neanderthal being reanimated from his 30,000 year long suspended animation and having his mind totally blown by the sight of a light bulb or something.
Then it struck me that we're already there and that, for all practical purposes, our technology actually is magic. But the sad irony is that almost all of us take it totally for granted.We have little magic boxes which can store the voices of people who have been dead for a century, we travel further in a day in a different kind of magic box than most of our ancestors did in a lifetime and we can sit in a chair inside a big metal bird-like magic box 3 kilometres up in the air and totally ignore a vista outside our window which would probably have reduced a Leonardo or a Michelangelo to tears of rapture. And most of us have utterly no idea what makes this possible.

Magic!

2010-08-03T14:38:00.003+10:00

Mr Clever Clogs fails again

2010-07-27T14:53:00.001+10:00

Um.

2010-07-20T14:00:00.003+10:00

I read an article in New Scientist a while ago about this stuff and kind of fell into a mild panic about the state of the world. It seems all the sexy new technology we love so much (and a lot of the 'green' technology we'll be relying on to preserve our comfy lifestyles in a post-oil world) is totally dependant on a group of rare metallic elements that most of us have never heard of and of which we're running out. And instead of carefully recovering what we can from the carcasses of our 2-years-old-but-completely-redundant computers and mobile phones, we throw them over our metaphorical shoulders and buy new ones.
We live in a very interesting, very complicated world, I suppose.
Then there's this where you have an ongoing civil war in the Congo in which access to tantalum supplies is a crucial factor. Wow. We have no idea. I'm going to set fire to my brain.

Taking responsibility

2010-07-14T14:05:00.001+10:00

Perspective

2010-07-06T22:39:00.000+10:00

When you're on a roll, the great ideas just keep coming...

2010-06-29T15:50:00.000+10:00

...and the hole just keeps getting deeper.

I've possibly jumped a shark here, but what the hell...

2010-06-23T19:42:00.000+10:00

Aftermath

2010-06-22T15:45:00.000+10:00

And lo, flaming retribution shall come down hard on someone's arse

2010-06-16T14:03:00.003+10:00

Sorry to take a while getting this latest page up - I actually started it about three weeks ago then the school holidays kicked in and everything else took a backseat. I know some people manage it somehow but there is no way I can concentrate on anything with a crazed 6-year old rampaging through the house.
And I think I may finally know where this story is heading. I promise you it is heading somewhere.

Where is that other web site?

2010-06-03T09:16:00.003+10:00

Some of you may have been in the habit of going looking at this stuff over at www.eggmencomics.com (or what you thought was www.eggmencomics.com).
If that's the case, sorry for any confusion but I've had to pull that version of the site down because it was more-or-less driving me slowly mental. It was hosted by one of those lovely, fancy-pants hosting services where they supply you with templates and stats and all that nice stuff. But, sadly, the fact that I'm still stuck here in fucking dial-up internet land meant that any time I had to call up their interface to make a change or upload an image (or pretty much anything) I would have to kiss the next couple of hours goodbye. Life's too short and I'm getting old and cranky and I resent paying good money to give myself a stomach ulcer.
The one thing that might be a problem is that I'd built a fairly solid archive over there where one might find one's way through a particular narrative and glean some sense from the thing (assuming there was some sense there). But I'm figuring, if I'm really smart with labelling my posts (and one glance will tell that so far I haven't been very smart about it), we might be able to have the next best thing. So I'm figuring that, once I get that cloud of labels over on the right there sorted out, it should work pretty much like the old archive anyway. The downside is that you might have to read a story backwards.

More scratchboard / scraperboard

2010-06-02T20:13:00.002+10:00

A spoon full of sugar - part 2

2010-05-25T12:15:00.004+10:00

A spoon full of sugar...

2010-05-18T13:53:00.002+10:00

2010-05-18T13:47:00.002+10:00

Ode to an underactive imagination

2010-05-10T17:37:00.001+10:00

Falling toward the light

2010-05-03T20:35:00.002+10:00

An elegant way out

2010-04-26T21:19:00.004+10:00

BIG task

2010-04-14T15:43:00.001+10:00

On task

2010-04-12T16:06:00.003+10:00

Plan B

2010-04-07T09:22:00.001+10:00

Summer's over

2010-03-31T21:01:00.002+11:00

Ah - and we thought he'd been vanquished. Hell, I did. But now he's back with 'Plan B'.
You'll find out what that is next week if you're here.

2010-03-31T20:51:00.003+11:00

I started playing around with scraper board (scratch board if you're American). This was a little practice run for another project.

Time to rock!

2010-03-29T14:37:00.004+11:00

All these little stories are about to start moving again, albeit a bit more slowly than last year. Creatively, I've got a bit more other stuff to get done now than I did then, so there won't be quite as many Eggmen strips appearing. But there'll still be at least one per week- whether that's a full page or a little 4-panel job (or something else) is going to depend totally on how the mood takes me.

Having a squizz back through the archives (on the right hand side here) the other day, I realised there's enough stuff there now to compile into a little book or 2. I'll let you know how that goes.

This would never happen to Yves Rossy

2010-03-24T16:39:00.002+11:00

I'm usually more than happy to be just me but, when I see this, I think it might be awesome to be this guy.

The further adventures of...

2010-03-23T16:23:00.002+11:00

Well, I had planned a carefully controlled descent into a nightmare world of Hitchcockian proportions.
We'll get there eventually but the boys have to talk about boobs first.

A little physics lesson

2010-02-17T12:23:00.002+11:00

You may or may not remember I left these guys dangling sometime before Xmas last year. This is how they got there.