This is an old post from 6/1/05 that i didn't publish as I was still working at the BBC - I have since quit (more about what I've been up to in the next post) I thought I could get away with saying whatever I wanted about that but apparently I'm still legally bound not to make slanderous comments. As the saying goes - If you haven't got anything nice to say then don't talk about the BBC. I still think I'm ok to say I worked there. Anyway - the middle section has been removed

Hello & a happy new year to EVERYONE. I started doing an xmas blog but it just goes ON and ON and ON there's not much point in publishing it. In fact there isn't much point in this all together but I suppose it keeps my hand in. Most of my friends don't seem to do their blogs any more - shame.

Anyway - I really have made some resolutions this year:

1. Kick off Local Girl PROPERLY (in print)
2. Lose at least a stone - I'm no vein weight obsessed twat but really, enough with the putting on weight already. If anything it reduced the target audience of fat people I can mock.

So with the weight loss, strangely I'm finding it very easy to eat less & more sensibly, maybe it's just a phase but when I go to the canteen I go immediately for the fruit, I'm enjoying being hungry & not gorging myself - let's hope it lasts. Also there's a beautiful park near my house where I intend to go cycling every weekend.

YES AND I QUIT MY JOB AT THE BBC yes - THE BBC, BBC BBC BBC - I can say it as much as I like now and by jove I intend to until it gets boring. [removed] do I sound bitter? WELL I HAD A LEMON FOR LUNCH.



Anyway... on the Local Girl front - I recently put an advert in freelancers.net (who are great if you don't want to put up with EVIL angencies) for an ARTIST for my comic. I was staring to cumulate all my stuff into book form & I just got really pissed off with my drawing style & all my mistakes. So I put in this advert and got a HUGE response!! Some really good stuff was sent but I soon realised I was never going to be happy with it. I then got an email from the lovely Dan Eastwell who said I should definately carry on doing it myself. As he was the only one that contacted me that seemed to ahve ANY interest in cool comics I was quickly convinced. I'm now working with him as a designer & colorist on the Local Girl Book - fantastic. Anyway, the responses I got from artists are all here Some really great stuff - but it's just not going to work is it?

It's amazing the type of responses I got. Many were from very good but very generic designers who I think just saw it as an interesting project to get them away from cropping pictures of stroke victims for some corporate whoresite - did they really think they had the imagination to work on a comic strip? I even got an email from some outsourcing place in India who said a team of 8 illustrators would do it for £10 an hour - I was sorely tempted. i hope they work in decent conditions - I can imagine them all being whipped & belittled & having to use mouse mats without wrist supports.