Today’s web address guest font (because Adobe’s Creative Cloud font servers were playing up) is Arial New. We shall return to Adobe Enzo on Wednesday as I’ve now repaired the problem.

Last week we had the first continuous background since I moved to the new square format – today we have an animated .gif, which is usually a guaranteed way of getting your strip picked for the Pick of Sherpa feature on the GoComics Blog. I don’t do them often but sometimes they really help with a gag.

And yes, the slide has been reversed. Cartoon slides do that – they automatically point in the direction of the gag. In this case Jones is going down the slide and as we in the west read comics from left to right, she needs to be going in that direction.

Sister Act went down really well, thanks for asking. Even better than the show (even though that was fabulous) was the action going on in Dressing Room 2, which became a home from home for its four inhabitants. By the second day we had set up our dressing room as a Zen temple of peace and spent the time between appearances on stage listening to whalesong and meditating on the colour blue…

In the mirror to the left, Stewart Farmer, playing the villain of the piece, Curtis, while I am in the right hand mirror, playing Monsignor O’Hara.

After a couple of days the mood in the dressing room changed, and by the last night we had given the room a makeover and turned it into a pub.

Here’s the pub. Note the optics on the shelf, and the scampi fries on the wall. Plus bar snacks and beer towels on the counter. What you can’t see is the laser light display playing on the ceiling or the beer garden we made out of the fire escape outside, and the pub sign I drew for the door outside – The Cock and Bishop. L-R. myself, Stewart’s daughter, Stewart Farmer (Curtis), Steve Pickering (Joey, the henchman), Gareth Brighton (Eddie, a cop) and our guest barmaid Alex Tomlins (Tina, one of Deloris’s backing singers).

Finally, here’s a canvas of everyone in the dressing room, that hung on the wall. Caricature is not one of my natural talents, but everyone seemed to like it.