Happy Birthday from the bank.

So, A few months ago we went over the overdraft for two days by £4 and got charged £20 by the bank (HSBC), plus a further £17 because a direct debit went out on the second day.

Making £37.

Over the course of the next month we managed to claw back and save £17 of this. That sounds crap doesn't it, but there really is no where to cut back on. (I haven't been out at night for over a year now.)

So I we went over the overdraft the next month by a nice round £20, and got charged another £20, plus another £17

Which made for a minus of £57. Luckily it's been my birthday and I got £70 (£20 off Dad £50 off Mum) So I spent all of that on staying out of the Red. Happy Birthday to me.

Then the Bank ring me up pointing out that I went over twice in a row and suggested I switch my account to one that automatically gives me a text warning if I reach my limit.
Sounds good, Ill go for that.

"For the upgrade you'll be charged £6 for the first introductory month, changing to £12 a month from then onwards."

No then. I only went over £4 in the first place!

HSBC are bastards.

Tron bike

Gilbert Shelton's been the don since I was 17

...And that was pretty much 20 years ago for me.
I've spent many a long hour pouring over everything he's done ever since I first discovered his stuff. He truly is the master, and no comic book collection is complete with out those Freak brother comics.
So imagine my excitement when I found this...
Yes that's right. One of my heroes with a copy of Spleenal on the table there next to him!
Yes!
He was there signing copies of his Fat Freddy's Cat Omnibus.

Sort of makes me wish I'd spent at least two minutes finding out what he looks like when I drew him in "the day after the end of time" (Which is in the Spleenal book) I didn't think it would be published, and then he'd read it, did I!?! I just drew someone who looks a bit like Fat Freddy...

With any luck he looked a bit like that back in the day, but somehow I doubt it.

Where did you go before?
What did you see? What? Tell me what you saw.

I saw you... I saw you in an orange grove...

Batman

What would make a man put on a mask, and go out at night, to beat the crap out of criminals?
He'd have to be some kind of crazy person wouldn't he?

Click the pic to fit to page.

Great comics free now

First four issues of stray bullets for free.
If you didn't read em when they first came out.
Read em now

spleenal in wonderland

spleenal in wonderland, originally uploaded by spleenal.blogspot.com.

What a ball ache.
I uploaded this to youtube and the thing was dead jumpy and in cut the start and end off. Is that 'cause It's quicktime and they don't wnat to play with quicktime?
So then I upload it to Flickr, but that cuts the end off be cause it was over 90 seconds!
So I had to speed it up a bit more than I would have liked. As it is I just squeaked it.

So watch this with your finger hovering over the pause button.

I uploaded it to vimeo to0 see if it would be better. The colours are all whack on that version and it's a bit jumpy too.

Faked

Watchmen 2?