OK - I am starting my blog up again. I am so fickle - it only takes one compliment by anyone to get me to do anything. My mate toby tripp Who's cartoons are both hilarious & original said he liked my blog. See - that's all it takes, I am blogging like a twat - look, I am doing it RIGHT NOW - look! tap tap tap tap. So - what's happened to me in the interim? I have started my own web comic local girl and people that matter seem to think it's good, people that don't think it's awful. It's so weird how it all started, are you sitting comfortably? THEN I'LL BASTARD BEGIN:

I was working at visit London at the time & they started up a section called kids love London - they wanted a comic character to be the face of the site - they decided it should be a caricature of me - now it could be that I am witty, cool & generally a fantastic role model for children - or it COULD be that [REMOVED] - I don't know, I just don't know. SO - me being a professional doodler & part-time egomaniac had already done a load of cartoons of my face & I said "HEY - let me do the drawings" and they were all like "Yeah - ok then", part one of the story is complete.

I move from being a coder to an illustrator NOW - fast forward a week - Stu & I go out to the country to fill our heads full of the fantastic B+ mushrooms got email-order from red eye frog which BTW is an excellent site for mushrooms & other 'legal' highs - full of advice & user message boards. B+ are by far the best shrooms though - they are a 'happy' high - like a mix between E & shrooms.

OKOK - back to the story: SO - I have my notepad with me & just start drawing & drawing - I'm drawing while I'm walking around and everything. I've always liked comics but I guessed my drawing has always left a lot to be desired - I figured I could never authentically capture the funnier ideas in my head - but I WAS WRONG - you don't need to be a good artist to get across a funny idea. The way you draw is just a form of self-expression - if you can't draw then that's just the way it's meant to be! So - I did all these toons & it went on all night - I was drawing in pizza express that night. My cynical side said it would all leave me the next day but IT DIDN'T - far from it, I was drawing solidly for like 3 weeks - the shrooms just unlocked this big dusty bit of my brain & the comics got better & better.

OK - so I'm not drawing nearly as much as I did but I still do it & I hope to get a print version going as soon as possible. It's funny - I'd always had ideas for jokes & funny ideas & they just went down in a note book. Meaningless drivel when I looked back at it... but with pictures - it means a lot! Now whenever I think of a funny idea for an advert, a shop name, a band name - it all has a place to live - IN MY COMIC - yehhh. What else then?? Yeah - I now work at the [REMOVED]. Basically I work on a coding team building the front end for all the [REMOVED]. Yeah - I guess working at the [REMOVED] is a cool thing - but to me it's just another coding job - damn it I want to do something creative with my life. I must say they are all really great guys though & I know I will enjoy it there. I've only been there a couple of weeks & it seems OK. I wish I could be myself right away & not have this weird incubation period where I feel like an idiot for about 3 months. I guess everyone has that.

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