In my day job I work on the design and production side of a business-to-business news organisation. We don’t deal in politics really – only when it tangentally affects the civil engineering and construction industries. There was one point in the summer where we’d just voted for Brexit, politicians were resigning left right and centre, Donald Trump was finding a new minority group to belittle every day, and famous writers, artists and musicians were dropping dead in platoons. We had to switch off the news alerts on our phones as we couldn’t concentrate with them going off every ten minutes, bearing bad news each time…
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Jones’ favourite show
The only way the real world imposes itself on the cats in this strip is through the TV set, which is why I use photographs and screenshots on the TV screen. Well, that’s how I explain it now – it was originally a device I used to save having to draw caricatures of famous people. The irony is, the picture research takes twice as long as it would to do the drawing.