Really Nessercerarilyaryry?

The battle with this particular word doesn't seem to be achieving a resolution - or an armistice. If anything we're getting ever more brain-torturing variations and spelling atrocities.

Sometimes a reader can get lost embarking on a long sentence. With this comic of mine, the same fate can befall the reckless traveller over the span of a single word. You can almost sense my own frustration in the triple exclamation marks and the expletives symbols.

Artoo, though doubtless a master of many languages, has blown a gasket on hearing this one!

Art Notes & Book-binding Tips!

This is also an odd page because it was scrawled in pencil and has only one panel. I think it was a case of a blank half-page opening on this side of the spine when an A4 sheet was was added for the 3D Plasticine chess game. But with the story well covered on this side of the spine the only thing to be done with this space was to draw a big supplementary bonus illustration. It'd be usual for the words 'PULL-OUT POSTER' or something to be emblazoned on it, or 'FOTO FEATURE'.

Non-comic drawing. Copied from a collectors' card - 1979?

Wow look! It's got staples and everything.

Cor!

It was all great fun to pretend that you were actually making a real commercial publication, sat on a newsagent shelf. With staples and everything.

It was great fun when dad brought home an office stapler. You could flatten out a thin homemade comic on the bedroom carpet, open out the stapler, position it over the outside spine and thump it with the heel of your hand. Yank the comic and staples out of the carpet and floorboard and carefully bend the staples in. Et voila! - you had a real looking comic! To do this with SWa9 however, would have necessitated something more heavy duty: the big u-shaped staples you hammer wire to fence posts with. So, no staples. These days there's no carpet in that room, so next time I visit I must have a look for staple holes! A wee memento - or footprint from 30 odd years ago.

Necesitayteded. Neseciteted. Neccessititad.

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