For newcomers, that’s Archy the poetic cockroach under that cup. His speech balloon should be all in lower case – I apologise for accidentally typing it correctly.
Tag / Jones
Children’s story
This is structured like most children’s picture books. You know the kind…
One morning, Jones went out for a walk.
First she met Smith. He was underneath a wastepaper basket.
“Hi, Smith” said Jones.
“Morning” said Smith
Then a few minutes later she met Chumley. He was under a cardboard box.
“Hi, Chumley” said Jones etc etc…
Can Chumley come out to play?
Spot the Hergé reference.
Brol, the ubiquitous soap powder that appears in posters and magazine adverts in the Tintin books.
100 elephants
I’m recycling gags again. This originated in 1983, when a Russian spy satellite was threatening to fall to Earth and all the tabloids were convinced it would land on top of New York or London and destroy civilisation. The story repeated itself earlier this year with a Chinese space station as the protagonist, which reminded me of this storyline. I’ve updated it with a new, much sillier (and rather Asterix-ish) threat for Smith to worry about, and a far better ending than it had originally. When this storyline’s over I may post the 1983 originals somewhere.
Fluffy little clouds
Sometimes, when I drag an image from a web browser into Photoshop to create an image on a television screen it causes my Wacom tablet to crash, and I have to restart my compter to get it to work again. It happened here. Fear those fluffy little clouds. Fear them.
Wave
Plump plump
I see Billy and Bella do this a lot.
IKEA catalogue
I had this idea that to cats the IKEA catalogue must like the Argos catalogue is for humans – ‘the laminated book of dreams’.
Swipe left
Or is it right? I honestly don’t know. All I know is it’s the direction Smudge had to swipe in so the iPad could be seen to be swiped forwards in time.
One of the things I miss about working in a vertical format rather than a horizontal one is that a lot of the sense of space and time between frames is lost.
Twitterstorm
Smith and Jones’ home keeps changing. Sometimes it’s a Victorian terrace, but most of the time it’s a 1960s semi. This is the first time we’ve seen the front of it properly. And it’s sticking as a 1960s semi from now on. Unless the gag requires otherwise. Their house is made of elastic really.