This blog began in 1997 as a single news page called Nucelus. In 2005, during a long wait to move into a new house, I decided to learn some php and MySQL and write my own blogging system, which became inkyBlog and which now powers this, my own Webbledegook blog.
Thank you to my brother, Murray Ewing, for help with some of the more challenging aspects!
My great auntie Edith married Edwin's nephew, Duncan. Edith was an artist herself, attending the Royal College of Art in the 1920s, a financial stretch for her parents which necessitated her brother (my grandfather) having to abandon his dreams of becoming a chemist to join his father in the coal pits. Instead, he ran away from home and joined the army, eventually becoming a Major, and resulting in my mum seeing her school days in places such as Tripoli, Libya and Egypt. Artists, eh!?
Sword of Truth actually started life as a script in about 1994 as a story called Stage Fight about two Edwardian actors who try their luck with a young girl new to the cast. Some of the ideas from that abandoned strip did transfer over to Rainbow Orchid. The vampish actress - called Evelyn Saxon in the original - became the model for Evelyn Crow, and the young girl remained as Lily, though originally she was Lily Lovell.
A silly one-page strip I did, Weapons of Mass Destruction that appeared in KissKiss BangBang 2, appeared on the Factor Fiction site yesterday.
