Teflon, the non stick stuff that somehow manages to stick to saucepans. And walls.

Today’s strip is actually inspired by a memory of a black Mini that used to drive around the neighbourhood when I was a kid. Most cars at that time would either have had a gloss paint finish or a vinyl roof that hadn’t started to peel yet. This one was customised with a deep iridescent metallic black paint jobs and the kind of tinted windows that nowadays would immediately say ‘this car is being driven by a drug dealer’. On the boot lid, next to the Austin Mini badges was a sticker. It said  ‘I’m Teflon Coated’.

As you read this I’ll be somewhere over the Atlantic again. It’s an even numbered year so it’s time to spend Christmas in New Mexico again. As ever, I’ll be taking my pens and paper and will be spending the holidays coming up with next year’s comics and drawing January’s batch ready for colouring as soon as I come home. I’ll be trying to get as many comics preloaded into the system as I can before I leave, and if I don’t quite make it, we’re going to find out at the end of the month how much cartooning can be done with a combination of an iPod Touch and an Android tablet…