Ziggy the Space Tomato: Part 17

I liked drawing this. And I think Kra-dooomm is a good expressive word. You obviously won't win a debate with it, but it could prove a good tactic to momentarily bewilder your opponent.

Ziggy the Space Tomato: Part 16

Ziggy the Space Tomato: Part 15

Managing to grab some time at the end of my holiday to put the latest episode/frame up. As a wise cartoon character once said: 'There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want'.

Picked up a book while on a trip out with Sarah and Naomi called 'Mouse Guard', which I would absolutely suggest you see. It's beautifully drawn, and a wonderfully earthy, fresh story with a LOTR vibe, the kind of story with a clear universe and clear rules, so the writer can't find a handy plot device or some magic thing which gets their heroes out of scrapes.

I naturally like the kind of story where there are a limited cast of characters and resources, power plays, a sense of being just beyond reality, a contained world with an epic edge. This is summed up for me in Simon Furman's Transformers story 'Target 2006' which I also would recommend you check out.

Anyway, Mouse Guard reminds me a bit of my favourite aspect of LOTR: Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli's plot line in The Two Towers. It's now one of the small band of favourites. See it here.

Ziggy the Space Tomato: Part 14

Ziggy the Space Tomato: Part 13

Ah, holiday approaches.... one more week to go...

It's enourmously popular and probably doesn't need my promotion, but Garen Ewing's Rainbow Orchid book is coming out soon too. It's quite something for a fresh comic to break the mould and actually get published as an album and be available in high street bookshops in this country, so very well done Garen, and I hope it does as stonkingly well as it deserves to.

Futurespoon pahrt wun

This was an idea I had from last year. Ultimately I settled on Ziggy to spend time on as it was more fun, and pressed the 'i like space' buttons more. This was meant to be more of a fantasy tale, even though I started in space land.

Still, here it is, I'll find part 2 sometime.

Ziggy the Space Tomato: Part 12

I think by the time I get to the end of this story it's possible I'll be 70, and it'll have a dramatic finale including gardening and pottering and having a snooze.

Actually, I'd like to have something by a comic convention next year. That sounds better. Obviously not the whole story, but chapter 1.