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!

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.

I’m starting to get ahead of myself now with these comics. Traditionally I script them in advance of drawing them but recently I’ve also begun drawing them ahead of time, too. This means I’m starting to get a few comics ready before they need to go up, so hopefully I will be able to avoid the annoying delays that have plagued the strip of late.

I am unfortunately bogged down by coursework at the moment. I have an assignment due on Wednesday about EU law and it’s major part of my degree course so I really can’t take the time out to finish my work on today’s episode of Pie Noon. I’m very sorry to disappoint everyone but please rest assured that once the coursework is done, I’ll have a new episode up for you to enjoy.

I’m having massive technical trouble right now so I don’t know if tomorrow’s comic will be completed in time.  At the moment both Photoshop and the Gimp are crashing regularly so I’ve got hardly anything done.  In the mean time, here is the sketchwork for tomorrow’s strip by way of showing that it does exist even if it doesn’t yet exist in completion.