The festive funky
I don’t think you should drink a floating margarita unless you made it yourself, you know?
I don’t think you should drink a floating margarita unless you made it yourself, you know?
Did Maggie’s plan work or has she just Dry Januaried our heroines into oblivion? Find out on Monday! Four comics next week (Mon-Thu) as Christmas With Clovis concludes and I prepare for the great wintersleep.
You can say what you like about Dick’s Day Movies but it’s the only channel where you’re going to see Susan! starring Miriam Chingford, Dudley Waller and, in an early appearance, Jock Boswell, in the sad tale of a cooper’s wife driven to drink in early 1950s London. One of my favourite things* about Christmas in the UK in the 2000s was the Sky TV EPG holiday music, now sadly relegated to the dustbin of history. But it lives on in this handy archive. Or just play all two and a half hours of it below.
* I know this is quite tragic
Scary Go Round Patreon subscribers will have seen Maggie’s onesie in various Cattywampus episodes but if you haven’t been privy, it depicts Partick Thistle football club’s mascot Kingsley, created by David Shrigley. I think he’s magnificent. One page to go!
With that, this run of Steeple is over. There will be some new, non-Steeple comics in the new year, but this series should return in 2021 (should I survive to make it, it all hinges on my survival). Stay tuned for news in the meantime. A very happy Christmas to you!
A year ago (at the time of writing, late February 2021) I got off my sickbed after nearly three weeks of the worst flu I can remember and decided that I had had enough of making comic strips about comic strips I made in 1998. I was alive and I was going to put my back into writing and drawing my ‘A’ material. It turned out to be a year where there wasn’t much else to do BUT please oneself. I think the 2020 Steeple stories, Destroy History: NEMS (part 1) and Circus Windows have been some of my favourite comics I’ve made. To cap off this year of intense endeavour, I present a very special final 44-page event: AUTHOR UNKNOWN? I’ve been working on this story since November 2019, it’s been through a lot of revisions to make sure it meant something even taken in isolation. It needed me to make all the comics I did over the last year to give it a bit of weight. There is something for both long-term and newer readers, to the exclusion of no-one. I really hope that you enjoy it.
“Tibkins” has been chronicled in various places – the Murder She Writes and THAT minis, Giant Days #52, and various other strips. Look, he’s a hedgehog type entity with chicken legs. That’s all you need to know. He bewitches young minds. AN IMPORTANT NOTICE If you want to read the first 22 pages of this story ahead of time (in a convenient, higher resolution PDF), just sign up for my Patreon at the $3 tier. Feel free to unsubscribe again, or drop to a lower tier, if you only want to read the comic. There’s loads of nonsense and bonus comics on there to read before you do – weird Esther and Des strips, process posts, horrendous fake comic projects, sketches galore.
Shelley Winters is an adventuress and author nonpareil. I don’t think I need to explain her at this point. She makes friends everywhere she goes. “Barry” is her agent. He’d probably regret the day he met Shelley (see Giant Days volume 13/issue 52) but for all the money she makes for him.