It’s early days so Peace’s surname hasn’t bedded in yet. It would later stabilise as McKenzie.
Tag / Nigel
Riverfields 6 – Margins
There are, of course, no time zones in the UK – everything runs on Greenwich Mean Time and the rest of the world’s time is subservient to us. We OWN time, do you hear me? OWN it. Nyah-hah-hah-hah-hah-hah!
Introducing Margin’s bookstore, an obvious Borders knockoff. For the younger readers of our blog Borders was one of the first big warehouse bookshops with sofas and coffee. For the even younger readers, a bookshop is a sort of big room full of books you can buy and take away with you.
The bookshop’s manager is Peace McKenzie. Her name is what you get when you combine the names of Peace Anyiam-Osogwe, a magazine editor I knew in the 80s, and Precious McKenzie, the diminutive weightlifter who won gold medals for England and New Zealand in the Commonwealth Games in the 60s and 70s.
Riverfields 5 – Sliiiiiide
August 11 2006
Admit it, you’ve always wanted to do this, haven’t you? Either that or Rollerblade around the mall – it’s a crime to waste all those lovely flat surfaces! A few years later the heelie was invented, and malls were full of kids essentially recreating this cartoon in real life.
Riverfields 4 – Muzak
August 10 2006
Kenny G is huge in China, it appears. How they can tell the difference between any of his insipid tootlings is anyone’s guess. It was reported recently that there’s one tune of his in particular, ‘Going Home’, which is played in every Chinese shopping mall just before closing time, to let shoppers know it’s time to leave. That sounds about right. If I heard his music over the tannoy system I’d try to get as far away from it as possible.
Riverfields 3 – Into the labyrinth
August 9 2006
The design of the mall was heavily influenced by Bluewater in Dartford. I’d made a trip up to the newly opened mall and somehow managed to run around the site with a camera taking reference photos without being apprehended by the security guards.
Riverfields 2 – Theseus
August 8 2006
I’ve found the original scans again, so the artwork I put up is going to be in higher definition than the original uploads to Comics Sherpa were. Just by 100 pixels, but every little helps, right?
Introducing Nigel Whelk, our main protagonist. He’s the one in the glasses.
And the analogy I was reaching for was the story of Theseus and the Minotaur.