"There's no such thing as Society", she infamously proclaimed.
I think it would be fair to say "opinion is divided" about her, however, the Tory Press and Government have conspired to try and give the impression that the people of the UK have a warm fuzzy glow about the tin-pot lady.

Frankly, as an innocent bystander of the 80s onwards I have very seldom heard a good word about her from even the most politically uncommitted people.

Therefore it seems beholden on Seething Lane to at least try (in...
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This week Health Minister Andrew Lansley is all over the news thanks to his visit to the Nurse's annual conference. Even Lady Cantata could earn a thing or two from him.




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A number of pages are nearly complete so I thought I'd at least post the opening page as a taster. (Just a low rez for now!)

 



 

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UK fans of 'The Today Programme" mornings on Radio 4 will recognise this scenario all too well.  If you've never heard it, the programme's 'rottweiler' presenter John Humphrys is infamous for talking more than the interviewee and interrupting their every sentence.

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I love Simpkins. Let's face it; you can never have enough Robots.  Simpkins is a strange mix of elements from 'Robbie' from Fireball XL5, 'Robbie' from Forbidden Planet, Kryten from Red Dwarf, Manuel from Fawlty Towers, Sheldon from Big Bang Theory and Megan Fox from Transformers.

 

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Frankly, Chancellor Scarlatti is a nasty little shit.  Which is funny really as most Chancellors are quite charming fellows or 'or a really good bloke' as their multimillionaire pals would say.

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Inspired by events surrounding the 'Weapons of mass Destruction' scandal, this strip morphed into several different versions before I settled on this.
Still... you've got to laugh.

 

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Simpkins steals the show.  One espresso too many and he loses his head and ends up on his back.

Simpkins is a devoted assistant to Sam and despite his accident-prone nature is able to be another pair of eyes and ears upon the intrigues around parliament. He will also commit terrible acts on instruction.  Not particularly nice I know, but useful you've got to admit.
 

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Sam walking through the city.  This was one of my first opportunities to think about the version of London and Cessminster I was creating.  In this early incarnation there are all the usual Steampunk elements there but even at this point I was already starting to think about feeding in some more 'story book', 'electro' motifs as well as cutesy/bizarre settings and characters.

 



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