Although it’s rather late, I’m rather proud of this episode. It’s a rather technical page, having a lot of little fiddly effects in it such as: multiple overlaid panels; portions of drawings extending out of the panels they’re from and so forth. I had a lot of fun drawing it.

This is also somewhat of a milestone for The Life of Nob T. Mouse as it is the first story to be completed in Series Two. Whether that is of interest to anyone but me is a point of contention but hey, I’m happy.

The artwork on this episode isn’t as good as I had hoped, especially for an episode introducing a new character. However, I had an accident a couple of days ago that has left me bruised from my fingers to my elbow. Consequently it’s a little difficult to draw the episode but I didn’t want to fall behind again so soon into the year so I did what I could with the episode.

There’s not a lot to say about this week’s comic. It’s another one of those four-panel jobs but I’ve tried to keep it from being a simple “four squares layout” episode. I’m pleased with the amount of background detail in the first panel - it seems like there’s a lot going on, and you can see the ever-present mountains that make up the majority of the landscape in the Nob Mouse universe. Overall, there may be little going on this week but I’d like to think I’ve demonstrated that lack of eventfulness reasonably well.

This comic is a week late, for which I apologise. I had planned to draw it once I got back from work on Monday 04 February because I didn’t have time to do it over the weekend, as I usually do, thanks to being away visiting family. Unfortunately I was taken into hospital on Monday and spent a lot of the week there. Don’t worry though, I’m fine and hopefully there won’t be any more visits to casualty in the near future. Anyway, since the comic was delayed so long I decided to put it up the following Monday instead of trying to do two episodes almost back-to-back.

Regular visitors to the site will have noticed several days of ‘outage’ this week. These were not my fault, they were the result of idiots using basic wannabee hacker tools to bypass the site’s security, in the vain hope of being able to add redirect code to the index.php file. It seems that instead of pointing to the correct portion of code that runs this website, they wanted you to be redirected to their own website, where they would undoubtedly be selling something both stupid and illegal. Suffice to say they sucked at coding almost as much as they suck at life in general, so all they managed to do was render the site unusable until I got out of hospital and fixed it.

Over the next few days I’ll be undertaking several security increases to prevent these idiots from being able to deprive you of your enjoyment of the comic. Until then, stay vigilant!

I’m sorry everyone, I’m simply snowed under at the moment. I didn’t get the time over the weekend to draw the comic and today I’ve literally had no time to sit down and draw anything more than this quick sketch. I’m hopeful that I’ll have more time once the various personal issues (that have all landed on me at once) are sorted out. Until then, stay tuned and apologies once more!

As comics go, this isn’t the most regular but I’d like to think that I hit most targets; or at least more than I miss. The delay this week has been due to illness, for which I think I can be forgiven. It’s not like I planned to get sick, after all.

I’m still playing around with the drawing style for this series and I hope that it isn’t interfering too much with your enjoyment of the story. The basic shapes are, for the most part, staying the same, after all. It’s the individual refinements of each character that are the current focus of my time and efforts. As you might have already noticed, Frederick has had something of a makeover this week and Nob Mouse’s basic body shape is being honed also. I think I prefer the new looks, although I still think Nob Mouse needs a little more work. I’m not quite happy with him just yet…

So there you have it. To borrow a phrase from gaming, “Doctor Franky joins the party!”.

This strip has been some time coming but I hope you think it’s worth it. I’ve been very busy with work and my new degree course so I’ve had little time to get this put together. Nevertheless it’s here now and it represents another step forward toward the inevitable finale of this long and winding story. There’s still a lot of mileage left in this story but I can see the end on the horizon, even if you lot can’t. That’s the advantage of having the plot worked out beforehand, I suppose!

Tune in next week for another exciting episode!

Happy Easter everyone! Don’t worry, the next thrilling episode of The Life of Nob T. Mouse may have been delayed but I’ve got both it and the following episode all sketched out already so be sure to check back on Easter Monday for the next instalment!

The idea for how to lay out this particular episode came to me while I was bored at work. I drew the whole thing on a piece of notepaper in between taking ‘phone calls from clients wanting to renew their registration fees (I’m temping in a call centre to pay the bills while I work on my first novel) and I was amazed at how quickly the whole story just came together.

The idea for how to lay out this particular episode came to me while I was bored at work. I drew this on a piece of notepaper in between taking ‘phone calls from clients wanting to renew their registration fees (I’m temping in a call centre to pay the bills while I work on my first novel) and I was amazed at how quickly the whole story just came together.