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!
We had a very late-booked summer holiday - my first time in Spain, and my first time ever on the Mediterranean, at Sitges near Barcelona. It was very nice, if just about at the limit of my heat tolerence.
The Brambletye Box is still chugging along with this theatre scene, which (as already mentioned) was the genesis of the story ... a stage magician's assistant turning up to ask Julius Chancer for help. I'm really enjoying drawing it - despite the numerous audience-filled backgrounds!
I did end the month with a very nice and long overdue get-together, having dinner with Colin Mathieson (Zulu Water Cart Rescue) and his lovely wife, who were down for the Battles Through History event at the nearby Ardingly Show Ground. We worked out, rather shockingly, it's been seven years since we last met up, at Copenhagen Comics in Denmark. It's actually been that long too (the Munich show, three months after) since I've had any (real-life) interaction with comics folk at all! I need to get out more ...