Geeks In Space #48

Moving swiftly on...this strip was drawn yesterday, like #47, and refers to the recent mind-shattering revelation that the prices of certain brands of bottled water, compared to the price of tap water, represent a markup of around 180,000%. What?! People who filter and bottle ordinary tap water and sell it on the basis of "funky" packaging are ripping people off? Say it ain't so, guv'!!

Although it'll never happen, I'd like some marketing bod to see this cartoon and begin producing a brand of water called "Fauxhemian Poseur".

Thanks go to Jason Phelan for coming up with the name "Mount Spanklin" (five years ago...).

Geeks In Space #47

For anyone who doesn't live in Melbourne (and I suspect each one of you), this is based on the recent big deal made about what slogan should appear on Victorian car number plates. A long time ago it was "The Garden State", then "On The Move", and then recently "The Place To Be", which very few people liked (apparently). Now they've come up with a new one, which is something to do with road safety.

XCM 748 was the number plate of my family's first car in Australia, just for some added useless info.

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.