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Cbunch
I’m always surprised by the response some of these strips receive. I thought this set of three crossword strips were rather weak, and were essentially filler, but this became one of the Sherpa editor’s picks in the GoComics Blog. It just goes to show that you never can never tell the worth of anything until you get an audience.
The word they’re searching for, indicentally, is ‘Clowder’. With a sounded ‘C’.
Mousee!
The phrase ‘It pains me to think we are of the same blood’ is a direct quote from Geoffrey Willan’s Molesworth books. Except, of course, Nigel Molesworth would have spelled it ‘it panes me to think we are ov the same blud’, as any fule kno. It’s probably an allusion to another quote, anyone know what it might be?
Seagull Whisperer II
I’m not too sure about the colouring on this one. The stone on the fireplace (a tribute to those fireplaces you would find in US sitcom houses in the 60s – onday I will have a house with that fireplace) is coloured too strongly, so there’s no real contrast between the fireplace and the wall behind it. I’m not sure the first three panels read clearly enough.
Feathers!
Bella has a thing about feathers. I think it’s instinctual, whenever she has a toy with feathers she is compelled to pluck all of the feathers out of it. A feather duster toy will last about two days at the most if it’s left with her, and first thing in the morning, we frequently find the front room looking like a hen run after a fox has got into it.
However, we’ve worked out how to deal with this, by collecting the feathers and making her a new toy out of them, using that self adhesive hospital velcro tape. We can now reassemble the toy after a hard nights plucking, and we’re both happy.
Blee!
OK, do you believe Scrumpy’s telling the truth here?
Thanks to the late lamented Smash Hits magazine for the word ‘Blee!’
A bunny’s work is never done
Sigh
Don’t worry, this will develop into something. I’m just venting my frustration at the kind of people who post non-specific whiny Facebook posts and then refuse to tell you what they’re whining about. You know, the kind of post that gets the response ‘u OK, hun?”
Poit!
Parp Honk
It’s good to have an extended range of characters that can pop in and out of the strip as required. This is Dave the Swan – we haven’t seen him for a couple of years, I’ll have to bring him back this summer if I can find something for him to do. (Actually, as I’m currently writing scripts for June, I know where the cats are and he’d fit in perfectly…)