The End!!!

Finally! The first page of this 15-page story was one of the first pages of comics I ever made (and posted here nearly 4 years ago). It was never really meant to be a story at all - I'm not sure it deserves the label even now - but a succession of daft ideas kind of accreted around it and it just developed a momentum of its own. And now, thank god, it's finished. I can go back to my life. But I don't think I'm quite finished with trilobites.

You can read the whole thing (in reverse chronological order) here.

I am yourself!

This one's finally about to wind up

Time to rock!

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.

Now what?

Over the next couple of weeks I'll be winding up the weekly strips for a while. I've really enjoyed doing them but, if I don't free up some time to start work on some other things, I'm gonna go nuts. I've agonised over this for a while and something has to give way. These were what got me started on cartooning a couple of years ago and I'm going to miss doing them. In my wildest fantasies I imagine that someone else out there might miss them too.
I will bring them back eventually - there's still a ton of ideas I have for them - and I'll probably throw the occasional one in when the mood strikes.
In the meantime, I'll still be doing the shorter strips - at least 2 and maybe 3 per week - and the long-promised "other stuff".
So this is the end of the "Great Trilobite Saga" for now, last week was the end of the Messiah storyline and next week will wrap up the Hereafter story for a while.
If you're not sure what the hell I'm talking about, you can read them all here, here and here.
I'll be back on Monday.

Why me?

STILL hanging about somewhere in the Cambrian

Still hanging about somewhere in the Cambrian

I really have to apologise for the punchline of this one. It's kind of like an unintentional curse. If you're old enough, or just obsessive enough about really cheesy and awful pop culture, those 5 words will have you trying vainly to get that fuqing song out of your head for the rest of the morning.
If you haven't been here before you can find past episodes of this little story by going back through previous posts (just click on one of those little labels at the bottom of the post). It might make some sense after you're read a few more but I'm not making any promises.

This trilobite story thing grinds inexorably along

For more, check out previous instalments in the archive.

The trilobite saga continues (without a trilobite)

More fun with his little Cambrian chums

And again, if you're just jumping in and want to make some kind of sense of this, go to the archive and scroll down to "The trilobite saga" and start at the beginning.

Another segue

Here we go again. This little story arc is also spinning wildly off on an unexpected (and probably unjustified) tangent.
The little creatures in the bottom panel were all found as fossils in the Burgess Shale deposits (Early Cambrian ~530-ish million years ago) in British Columbia. I've had a copy of Stephen Jay Gould's Wonderful Life kicking around for years, without ever getting round to reading it, but I just love the way these things look. The drawings in Gould's book are much nicer than mine.
I'm still figuring out what the possible connection between Palaeozoic fauna and a codpiece-sporting Eggman could be. Totally running on blind faith that it'll all eventually make a strange kind of sense.
If you want to see the narrative thread (I'm using the term loosely) of this little episode a bit more clearly, have a look at these pages in the archive.
And, for the heavy metal fans or pop culture obsessives among you, the title this week was based on the Megadeth logo.

The trilobite saga continues...after its fashion.

If you're just jumping in at this stage, this is probably going to make absolutely no sense whatsover. You might need to back up a few posts to see when this thing got attached to his head. You might then be more confused than ever. Like me.
You can follow the ongoing saga (and see everything published so far) in the archive.

Cock Rock!

Definitely the last one before the new year, but I'll be back into it pretty sharply after that. I need a few days off.
Yep - that's still that trilobite thing on his head and we're seeing the start of a multi-part, epic story arc. It's going somewhere but I really wish someone would tell me where that is.

The trilobite