The BOOSTATION

Planet of cartoons

It was always my intention to change the nature of this website to be more of a themed thing (previously it had been rather chaotic) and to include more of my cartoons and photography, as I was becoming more serious about those two things. However, one fine morning I found myself in control of five and a half times as much webspace as I had used to be…

This meant that now I could do something more spectacular, and something I had wanted to do— but been unable to achieve— for a while.

This is the beginning.

On this site I have already published my new cartoon, which you can link to below. I shall also be writing, now I have the chance, a history for that cartoon, both its graphical and its verbal heritage, plus a bizarre glimpse into the heritage of something which contributed more to the humour of the strip than I could ever have imagined when, one odd morning in 1988, we first dreamed the beginnings of the concept up… This thing was

The BOO bear!

The boo bear, odd though it might seem, has contributed more to my cartoon than a stupid joke about a small blue bear would seem able to, but there it is.