Dog Translucent #21

A long time ago, someone commented on this blog about a Dog Translucent that they remembered but I hadn't put up. Well, I finally found it, so here it is.

Dog Translucent #20

Dog Translucent #19

So, after a gap of only sixteen years, I've written another Dog Translucent! Why the reason for this sudden revival? Well, I was thinking about all the recent updates of Sherlock and I wondered if I could jump on the bandwagon in some way, so I started working on a strip called "The Sherlock of Small Things" in which Sherlock solves uninteresting crimes using household hints and tips. While doing a bit of research, I realised I was basically writing another Dog Translucent strip, so Sherlock was dropped and DT proudly reintroduced.

Dog Translucent #18

This was, unfortunately, the last of the strips to appear in Select magazine. This was back in the day before mobile phones and I was working night shifts, so they found it difficult to get hold of me. I guess they found this frustrating since they simply stopped printing my strips, so that Dog Translucent is forever trapped in the clutches of this anonymous bad guy. Ah well, it had run its course - I was finding it harder to write for it. And this two year run looks good on the cv, but only for people old enough to remember Select.

Dog Translucent #17

Dog Translucent #16

Dog Translucent #15

Dog Translucent #14

Dog Translucent #13

Dog Translucent #12

The first of a series of strips with a single storyline. Alas, I never got to finish it because the strip was dropped, but it was an interesting exercise.

Dog Translucent #11

This is my brother's joke. When we were living together as a family, and it came to serve the pudding of a Sunday lunch, if it was a pie my brother would ask people "How many degrees do you want?" This progressed to radians or quadrants, and then finally he came up with this way of accounting for the variation in the density of the filling. I thought this was just the sort of thing Dog Translucent should know.

Dog Translucent #10

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Dog Translucent #4

Note my keen comedy sense of squeezing every bit of humour from a situation. The guy in the first frame has bad eyesight, so he's facing the wrong way! I'm hilarious!

Dog Translucent #3

For those who are interested, the comics were drawn really small and then enlarged repeatedly on a photocopier. The text was cleverly added with glue. Technology, eh?

Dog Translucent #2