I choose the man who, in a nearly empty carriage, came and took the seat next to me. I was so enraged by this clear breach of the unwritten rules of carriage seating (everybody knows you always take the position diagonally opposite first. Everybody!) that I had to pretend to get off at Putney just so I could move to another seat.
Now I'm going to have to make myself some toast just to calm myself down.
After pouring out a disproportionate amount of chocolate pieces with my cereal this morning, I put some back in the box. This is called 'putting something away for the future', and it is extremely mature.
The guy who first alerted me that I might be entitled to paid holidays has just been asked to come to a meeting which 'may result in the termination of his contract'.
Suddenly I feel a lot less inclined to rock the boat.
I know I don't post here very often, so it's a bit cheeky to only come here when I want something, but ... I recently found out that as a worker (I'm long-term freelance, but not self employed) I should be legally entitled to 5.6 weeks paid holiday every year. I asked at work about holiday pay and they said that they will chase it up for me, but now they want to talk to me about how my contract doesn't include any holiday pay - I am now very scared of going down and telling them that the law says they have to pay me a bunch of extra money. Help!
In exchange for advice I offer this comic:
Thank you!
Edit: stupid vox seems to be hiding half my comic, so here is a link if you can't see the whole thing!
Yesterday I went for a cycling lesson. Here are some comics I drew on the way to it and on the way back.
after drawing the panel where I fall under the bus I went to the front of my sketch book and wrote a little 'if you find this book please send it to...' message. You know, just in case.
1) The DFC officially printed it's final issue (for now) last friday. Boo! They are still looking for buyers and are exploring other options for using all the strips that have been created for the comic etc etc, but it generally looks like it will be a long time before anything else comes out of that, if ever.
But all is not lost - I have met an incredible bunch of fantastically talented writers and artists through working on the DFC, and so we have teamed up to create a new comics blog site at http://supercomicsadventuresquad.blogspot.com/ - check it out! I have no idea where they got the idea for that incredibly brilliant name though.
2) The Guardian is also going to discontinue their comics section (it is a comics APOCALYPSE) which means my comic is getting cut off half way through its run. GAH. But you can see all the episodes that didn't make it into the print edition yet here, and I am getting paid for all twelve episodes anyway, so: woo!
3) I am trying to come up with ideas for a new comic (because going back to Beaver and Steve feels like a bit of a cop out). Here is idea number one, tentatively (and unimaginatively) titled 'monsterworld':
4) I actually post a lot more comicky stuff on my livejournal because, well, I sort of know you all here, and it feels a bit strange telling you about pictures of cartoon animals that I have drawn. So if you are interested in drawings that sometimes have colours then you might want to take a look at that. Like I never posted this here did I?
As surprising as you might find it, my old blog is not the official complaints department for Kelloggs. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.
Sincerely
E. Baboon Esq.
(Now I will probably start getting complaints about the internet)
Well, it looks like the Guardian has completely forgotten about episode two, and right now I'm not really sure who has the rights to everything so I don't know if I can post it myself, but for the mean time here is episode three!
There are only two facts you need to know from episode two to catch up with the story:
1) using their superior detection skills the squad figured out that the
Baboon was stolen by the Dread Pirate Green Beard, and have gone to
Pirate's Cove to track him down.
2) Episode two was really funny.
Seriously, you really missed out.
