The reason for the season

I got the light right in this one. I also seem to have got the tone right too – no fundamentalist Christians came gunning for me in the comments section of GoComics, not that I intended any offence anyway. This agnostic has a couple of Nativity sets out in his house every Christmas because the story of Jesus’ birth is where it all begins. And it’s a good story.

Putting the world to rights

smith-pilcher-840-150821Oh dear. It’s been a bit of a tough summer – at least it was when I wrote this next batch of cartoons. Us humans have been acting in a really stupid manner again, everyone’s been shouting at one another, shooting one other and blowing each other up for no sensible reason whatsoever. So pardon me while I get this out of my system, making very obvious points in a very obvious way because some things are so very obvious that no-one ever seems to pay any heed to them. Normal service resumes on Bank Holiday Monday.