Have you been out today?

Seawhite of Brighton A6 sketchbook number 12b, begun April-ish, 1998








Those poor attempts at a vaguely manga-ish style were the start of my work on a strip drawn for a fellow Brighton student, Sari Tanimura (as she was then, Sari Griffiths now). Sari's written English, back then, was not altogether natural-sounding so some carefully agreed tweaking of her dialogue was applied as I worked on her script. I seem to recall the line "I've been alive to encounter this sweet one!" being changed to something ever so slightly more believable (though, as I view it now, disappointingly less poetic).

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Seawhite of Brighton A6 sketchbook number 12b, begun April-ish, 1998










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Further shameless self-promotion of that there book of mine:

A favourable mention in the Sunday Telegraph;

A very positive review in The Montreal Gazette;

and kind words from those excellent folk at Drawn and Quarterly.



So that's all jolly nice.

A favourite panel from episode 17 of Good Dog, Bad Dog: Double Identity.

Seawhite of Brighton A6 sketchbook number 12b, begun April-ish, 1998










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Another small thing from the margins of the daily doggy doings. Ned Trumpet, elephant detective, trying to muscle in on the crime-fighting action.

And a neighbouring sound effect.

Seawhite of Brighton A6 sketchbook number 12b, begun April-ish, 1998










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More bits and bobs from round the sides of some Good Dog, Bad Dog pages...

A rare chance to see some comics sound effects roaming free in the wild, just prior to their capture and imprisonment in episode 15 of Good Dog, Bad Dog: Double Identity.

Seawhite of Brighton A6 sketchbook number 12b, begun April-ish, 1998




So this is the sketchbook I started up when number 12 had been temporarily lost, so it's entire contents probably fit chronologically in between two pages from that one (though I can't remember to be sure). I'm sure my future biographers will be able to work it all out in due course...










Some material there from the self-published mini picturebook Gerald Goes To Mexico - a kind of feline crime story/road movie. It was a bit of a mess to be honest but it did feature quite a nice picture of a giraffe in a flat bed truck.

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