The view from on high

You can find out what the hell is going on here by clicking on the tags to call up previous episodes. Or, even better, go over to the new site and look for "Rampaging through the hereafter" in the archive of weeklies.

Work. Shit.

I've tweaked my routine a bit to (hopefully) keep things a bit more interesting. I'll still be posting the same number of strips per week but one of these 4-panel numbers will appear every Monday and Wednesday and a big, full-page one will go up on Friday (a day earlier if you're in the Americas).

Still agonising

Not having spoken to a French person for a long time I'd forgotten about this little cultural mismatch. But apparently the French will typically give you a long and detailed answer to what we wishy-washy Anglo types assume is a rhetorical question. We think they're long-winded and rude and they think we're insincere. Lingua Franca on Radio National had a nice little segment on just this a few weeks back.

Chin-ups are a bit hard

What did he say?

Banishing demons is harder than it looks

Know thyself

Happy Xmas 2003!

This one was done for a fond old acquaintance who I ran into a few years ago. It was around Christmas at the time and she challenged me to do her a Christmas cartoon. It took me 6 years or something like that to come good on my promise but, finally, here it is. Doesn't seem like it was worth waiting 6 years for somehow.

I got totally stuck on the last row of panels at one point so I fell back on that old, tried-and-true plot device of having your protagonists explode for no good reason.

I'm always running chronically late for Xmas - like it'll all of a sudden be Xmas Eve and I'll realise I haven't bought any presents and have no money to buy any. I never seem to learn. So, in the spirit of getting my shit together this year, here's the spirit of Christmas, 3 months early (not 6 years late).

Today is the first day of the rest of your life

Nothing like a good substitute