About This is the blog of Garen Ewing, writer, illustrator and researcher, creator of the award-winning Adventures of Julius Chancer, and lover of classic film, history, humanism and karate.
It was thirty years ago today that Star Wars had its release in the US (we didn't get it in the UK until December 1977). Like all children of a certain age (I was 8) that film, and its two sequels, had a profound impact on me. To celebrate, here's another from the archives - my first ever published drawing in a fanzine from 1984...