STEEPLE – A Scary Go Round Comic

After two years of frenzied webcomic activity, I’ve had to dial things down for a little bit for self-preservation’s sake. For three weeks (Mon-Fri) I’ll be running Steeple strips (Steeple Lite, if you like) that will begin to utilise the pile of ideas that don’t really fit the requirements of the plot-driven Dark Horse series. I apologise in advance for the slightly lavatorial start to this story next week, I promise that it is going somewhere other than the sewage treatment works.

Full disclosure: I struggled with drawing this comic too, and had almost given up. Things were already lavatorial and I was ill at ease as you will recall. But after inking it, I felt that the drawing of Brian turning off the toilet stop-tap was quite artful, and I rebuilt the whole thing around it. By the time I’d finished, I was quite proud of my little pictures.

Pop Tarts have always seemed to me to be the ultimate triumph of convenience over edibility. They’re horrible, they burn your tongue, and all they do is save you the effort of buttering and applying jam to a piece of toast. Do they resemble food? I suppose they’re a good way to get quick calories into earthquake survivors.

Budleigh Salterton is a real place, it’s in Devon, Cornwall’s natural enemy. As you will see from the official guide to South Devon’s web page on B.S, they are flagrant in their use of the grocer’s apostrophe, providing yet more ammunition for Cornwall’s slings and arrows .