Squirt 2
Tag / Smith
The Grand Total
This is what they want
Back to the plot after Friday’s hiatus. And it’s time to fill the screen with kittens. And who can compain about that?
Published two days late, though I don’t rememeber what the crisis was that caused the delay. It acsued the other two strips that week to follow on consecutive days.
Cage your babies
The views expressed in this comic strip are those of the cats and not necessarily those of the author. Actually, maybe they are – up to three minutes before I started drawing it I was planning on having the third panel showing a kitten with a semi automatic rifle and Smith and Jones appealing for self-defence for kittens. But there are quite enough nutters running around with guns and no sense of responsibility at the moment, so I toned the appeal down to one for play pens, or, as cats would see them, baby prisons. Sometimes its best not to let your characters dictate the plot for you…
The ubiquitous bear
Every year about this time a yellow bear infests the BBC with his cheery bonhomie and mysterious eye injury. It’s Pudsey the bear, the mascot of the BBC’s annual Children in Need appeal. It’s a very worthy cause, raising millions of pounds each year for the care of disadvantaged children all over the UK, but at the same time, whenever the BBC decides to plug one of ots pet projects the BBC does tend to overdo it a bit, blasting you with heart rending bear-related appeals using every medium at its disposal (and let’s face it, that means all of them!). So this year Smith and Jones have come up with their own counter appeal.
Vinyl roof
There’s nothing more 70s than a car with a vinyl roof, and I still think a car with a reconditioned one looks rather swish. But most survivors from the 70s now look like the one in the cartoon.
The car is a British Leyland Princess – a Ford Cortina competitor that could have been a world beater if only they built them well enough to hold together for longer than one week. And if the management had given it the hatchback it was so obviously designed for.
Echolocation
Assault and battery
Bat
Note the pumpkin-orange background, a colour normally only ever used on Alison Ward. It’s that time of year again.
Infinite spaghetti loop
