Mini Epics 21–24

I recently 're-jigged' Ischia, the font I created for comic lettering. Even though it's just my own hand lettering, the font had to be fine-tuned several times. I went through it again because the letter 'N' and the number '4' still bothered me, but it's looking okay now.

9000 Views!

Good news, the blog has now reached 9000 views! Thanks to all of you who have been checking it out.

I've put in the above screenshot to gloat about it, I mean, commemorate the occasion. And the minty-green layout is preserved for posterity as well, in case it gets changed in the future. Which I suppose it will.

Wikipedia Humour

I was looking at the Wikipedia entry for the Australian late '80s/early '90s sitcom Acropolis Now! just now – for gawd's sake don't ask why – when I noticed this little gem. Whoever placed the inverted commas on the word 'hilarity' is a winner, and should be entitled to shout "Opa!" in a comically ethnic fashion.

Geeks In Space #46

Not Seen As Weird/Seen As Weird is the first Geeks strip this year. I had the idea for it months ago, when I saw something on TV about brainwashing babies, but didn't draw it out until last night. Funny 'ow that 'appens, innit.

There's also a blog redesign, which you can't fail to see. Minty green, to soothe your fried eyeballs. After a hard day of staring at the computer screen and crying intermittently, come to Nonesuch and check out a comic strip or two. And fry your eyeballs some more.

RAQ (Randomly Asked Questions), Part 2

I checked my blog audience stats today. Don't know why I waited until 2 years and 4 months into this blog's life to finally check who my viewers are, but there you go. There were a lot of views from Australia of course, but I discovered that my blog also has quite a few viewers in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Germany, Brazil, Malaysia, Russia, Indonesia, Portugal, Latvia, France and Italy.

I have no friends at all in any of these countries (except the USA and UK), so thanks to all of you for checking the blog out! Don't be afraid to leave a comment, either.

It's time now for the 2nd instalment of Randomly Asked Questions – I haven't posted one of these since October 2010. Thanks also to the friends who each asked a question in the hope they would get a sane answer out of me. Submit a question if you like – or don't. Your life.


Why don't you do a post bagging out the London 2012 logo?

On this blog, it's not my focus to denigrate others' work – go here for that. I personally don't like the logo, but if it was red, white and blue and the numbers were a bit clearer, then I might like it more.

You should review movies on your blog.

No I shouldn't.

Why is it that those comic lettering fonts you can download for free are all buggy? Some of them don't have the numbers 1 to 9, or apostrophes, or quote marks or whatever. There's always something missing.

I don't know. I designed my own, so I don't use them anymore. I spent 4 days straight on it, so not including the numbers 1 to 9 is a bit slack if you ask me. I even did 10 ligatures that I'll never use. Sad, isn't it.

You know the Kirin cycling...I heard that was a Japanese thing, but the Japanese word kirin means giraffe! wtf?

The word is Keirin – 'professional cycling'. It was invented in Japan in the 1940s for purposes of gambling. 'Kirin cycling' – ha! An animal with such a long neck would not do well in such an aerodynamically-oriented sport.

Why don't you do a drawing of 18 characters each wearing a different AFL team jumper?

Only if you ask nicely.

Mini Epics 17–20

¡Wa-hey! It's another four comic strips, including the one where Jezebel eats a cockroach. Why does she do this? Perhaps she couldn't be bothered squishing it with someone's pencil case. Or maybe her butler wasn't around to do it for her. Rich people are like that.