The strip is called Payne's Grey and features a different character each week (named after a small village somewhere in Britain). I draw the faces in pen or with a brush depending on what mood I'm in, then scan them in and drop them into a framework I made in Photoshop. I then type in the text and colour them in.
There is no theme exactly. Someone once said of another strip of mine that it went A-B-K rather than A-B-C. I took it as a great compliment. Here is last week's. . .
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Hello Chris
ReplyDeleteMy name is Cuan Glass and I am the periodicals librarian at Rondebosch Library in Cape Town, South Africa. I think Payne's Grey is absolutely brilliant! It is the funniest comic strip I have ever read and I find myself looking forward to each new edition of New Statesman because of it. I was wondering whether you have any plans to publish a collected edition of the strip. I would certainly buy it and consider it a rare treasure. My email address is mithras@telkomsa.net
Please feel free to contact me if you have the time or inclination.
Hi Cuan. I clearly don't review my comments enough as I have only just spotted this one. I'm very pleased to hear you like Payne's Grey but my attempts to get it published in book form have failed.
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