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Wednesday, 01 July 2009 00:00

Star Wars: the Definitive comic strip adaptation (note the Liebherr packing tape)"

(This is an old post from the old Blogsite, just to give a you a bit of background to this site before I get all-new stuff up. JW) 

I was off work again with a chest infection the last two days and feeling restless, I opened the old suitcase I'd brought up from mum and dad's, and the plastic Penney's bag dad'd given me last time I was there. Both are full of my old drawings - mainly of Star Wars. Handing me the bag he said: "I remember you said 'oh just throw them out', but I kept them." So he did, and I'm glad he did. My mum also kept some stuff I think. "No, don't throw those out..." she pleaded.

One of the most fascinating things is the comic strip adaptation of Star Wars that I started aged nine and a half.

I have most of the first version, but some was sadly culled as my drawing improved. I'd remove pages no longer deemed up to scratch and replace them with better versions. These were the pages my mum wanted me to keep safe. Between dad and mum as I said, I have most of them. The odd thing is, the earliest, poorest ones are my favourites. The dawing is so poor, so out of proportion, so in need of a ruler at times! - but it brings me back immediately to that happy time, immersed in my drawing and the imaginary escapist alternate universe of Star Wars. It was also executed very quickly so has a wonderful immediacy and freshness. To close, I must apologise to all the people that I bored senseless with my youthful Star Wars obsession!