Older comic strips...

With ornery toads!

In 2018 I started making comic strips for The Phoenix, the weekly children’s comic magazine published by David Fickling in the UK. I’d wanted to have a strip published there since I’d first set my sights on making comics at all, so it was an exciting step for me. I had a good experience with them from the beginning - the combination of having to make a lot (for me) of strips in short periods, along with having a comics editor for the first time in Joe Brady, really pushed my skills forward.

I began with a comic called Sigismond’s Neighbourhood, about a magical lizard and his friends, and then in 2022 made one called Grandma Toad, about an ornery old porch-squatting amphibian who each week imparts her questionable wisdom to her two grandchildren.

I looked back over some of these recently, and enjoyed remembering the ideas I was having then - and finding some to perhaps expand one day into new comics! So I thought I’d share some of my favourites here.

Thanks for reading - until soon!