Night Caller

"Excellent Bat outfit, son---but next time, wait until your
mother's fully awake before showing her..."

Slightly Cracked Promises

About two comics ago I promised to link you to a few webcomics that I liked and to broaden your already well travelled horizons with even more webcomicing Tom-Foolery. Well the long and short of it is that I haven't! It's not that I don't care about your horizons or even their breadth, it's simply that I've been too busy lately doing all manner of time sapping things; but I will, I promise, on the next posting, which will be this Friday coming, do a write up on a webcomic that I'm going to be guesting on in the very near future.

In other breaking news, I had a little bit of Facebook banter with one of my contacts; a chap by the name of  Harry Rickard, a couple of days ago. He was saying how much he enjoyed my work in comic football and I was dutifully bowing and scraping, tugging my forelock and saying 'Thank'e kind sir' when he said he'd love to do work for them. I, being the benevolent kind of chap that I am, suggested he just send his work off to them, he, said he'd like to but he was only 14.

At this point I wondered what the schools are teaching our younger ones now, cause when I was at school I can remember going into my then local paper (the Solihull News) and asking them if they'd print my cartoon, and bless them, they did. But never did it ever occur to me that I was too young---all I knew was that I wanted to be a cartoonist and that newspapers were the only place to get them printed.

So a message to all you aspiring sorts out there: if you have ideas, send them out, it doesn't matter if you get rejected, as only by being told no do you get any better. If you're lucky, a kind editor will give you criticism and that in itself will enable you to improve on what you do; eventually, after a lot of blood, sweat, tears and a probable mountain of rejection slips, you'll get that one letter which says 'Yes, we like this and wish to publish it' and then the heavens will open and angels will sing.

So, my young prodigies, age is no barrier! But just to sit me on the right side of your mothers, you'd better get started on your plan for world wide cartoon domination AFTER you've finished your homework...Thank you and see you all back here, nice and early on Friday

Class dismissed