Dan's strips

I first came across Herge’s ‘Tintin’ books when I was seven and was completely enthralled even though I had only the vaguest idea what they were about as they were in French.

Later, when I was seventeen, a friend of mine back from California showed me the first ‘Zap’ comics by Robert Crumb and Gilbert Shelton’s ‘Furry Freak Brothers’ and I was hooked. I knew then that all I really wanted to do was write and draw what are now pretentiously referred to as ‘graphic novels’.

The following excerpts are in reverse chronological order.

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Chilling

At present I am working on this one with TV comedy script writer Paul Bassett Davies.

Depression, A Beginner’s Guide

Drawing on my hard won expert knowledge of the subject, this will be finished in 2007.

The Return of Oscar Wilde

The third fragment is from a story based on the idea of Oscar Wilde having been kidnapped by aliens from Reading Gaol in 1898, returned to his cell 100 years later, and how he gets out of prison and re-establishes himself in society…

Men Behaving Badly

This excerpt is from a strip which ran in ‘Punch’ and satirised the last days of John Major’s government before New Labour took over. In this case I collaborated with other writers.

Critical Mess

This excerpt is from ‘Critical Mess’, published by Junction Books in 1983, which was developed from an anti-nuclear puppet show starring Drain Pig, who went on to feature in a weekly strip in ‘Sounds’, a now defunct heavy metal magazine.