1996 Pawn to knight king 4

Cat Flap was a good idea, but like all good ideas you have to know when it has had its time. I decided after 9 A4 pages that enough was enough, so I embarked upon a waste of time that would last for two years. My excuse is, of course, that I was drunk most of the time. But that's no excuse.

Witchfinder (Generally) was a badly titled bad idea gone bad. It was the story of a miserable witch (Belladonna Foxglove) who had a friend who was a Jack O'Lantern. Holly and Rick were in it too, and Kristie sometimes.

In my defence no one was ever meant to read this pile of old cobblers. It was nice enough to look at at, though - if only I hadn't scribbled the words on afterwards as an afterthought. Echoing the revolutionary auteur directors of the 70s (Scorsese, Bogdanovich, Altman) plot was second to character. Which was itself second to finishing the strip, sticking it up on my wall and saying TA-DA!

Note to aspiring cartoonists: this is not a good example I am setting here.

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