Many years ago I was commissioned to draw a strip featuring Aqua of Barbie Girl fame.

These are the pencils for one of the two strips I drew before the publisher decided that he only wanted to pay me half the fee that I had agreed with the magazine’s editor.

After a brief argument over the phone where I was told “it doesn’t matter what my editor said I only pay XXX”, I refused to send the artwork.

I didn’t get paid but he had to scramble to find something to fill the hole in his magazine.

Needless to say, the publisher’s company didn’t last long.

I recently joined a couple more social media sites - Supernova and Threads.

Threads probably needs no introduction as it’s Meta’s attempt at replacing X the platform formally known as Twitter.

Supernova is more like old school Instagram, before it got taken over by Meta and tried to become TickTock.

It advertises itself as the social network for a positive world and donates part of it’s advertising income to charities chosen by the site’s members.

My experience with Supernova so far is that it is a much more pleasant place to hang out than most of the other platforms out there.

London’s Jam Bookshop will be celebrating the release of Bill Watterson‘s new graphic novel, The Mysteries in October, with a Draw Calvin and Hobbes exhibition of art, in tribute.

Potential participants were asked to post their pieces on Twitter and Instagram with appropriate hashtags.

Drawing for the Instagram art challenge set by Tony Helms and the Pose Archive.

I’m not sure if it’s just me but I get an Agents of Shield vibe from what I came up with, the original, 1968, comic book version that is.