This strip was written with the American audience very much in mind (for whom cricket has never really caught on), but I have to confess that, despite being English, I’ve never really understood cricket either.
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Four years ago? Time flies…
Minestrone soup tastes different every time. My mum makes the best minestrone, but even when I follow her directions, I can’t make a soup nearly as good.
I nearly didn’t submit this strip:
And yet this was one of my favourites…
I’m not the best judge of my cartoons, that’s for sure…
I was away when these ran. This series was inspired by a survey of Americans that showed many were more prepared to believe in things like Bigfoot than in evidence-backed science like climate change.
Yes, I worked this out. I assumed that each person would need at least a metre squared to stand on. 7 billion square metres is the same as 7,000 square kilometres (1000 m x 1000m). I then did a search to find islands bigger than 7000 sq km. I would have dearly loved to use one of the Falkland Islands, but I’m not sure they are as well known as in Margaret Thatcher’s era…So I went for Vancouver Island, instead – a little roomier at over 30,000 sq km.
As this comic strip series was running, I was very glad to hear that the Keystone XL pipeline was denied a permit, but it looks like this is just a stalling measure to take the decision beyond the presidential election. I wish as much money and energy was being put into researching and installing alternative energy systems (wind, solar, wave) instead.
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Although I was sad to see the end of syndication for new Ollie and Quentin comic strips this year, I was glad that Norm Feuti (of Retail fame) picked up the reins with his strip about a dysfunctional family (at least in the world of newspaper comics), Gil. It was cool to add it to my Daily Ink feed and I’ve been enjoying revisiting the characters. Gil was a web comic and it’s great to see that rejigging the comic for a newspaper audience hasn’t diminished it at all.
I just hope that they like it, editors buy it and Gil becomes the success it deserves to be.
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