Crisis on Infinite Sherpas!

Yes, there' s a big event happening this week that will change the Sherpaverse forever. In an attempt to unite the continuities of strips as diverse as Jack Radio, Navy Bean, Cubie 'n' Bouncy and Mr Todd there's going to be some white-hot crossover action this week which will leave the Sherpaverse shattered...

No not really.

Actually, this week's event is much more benign. 30 Sherpa strips (list to be added here as soon as I get it) have been given a set of topics to play with; a new one for each day this week. I'm participating from Monday through Saturday - I thought it would be cheating to have a strip on Sunday's topic: 'Animals'.

Check through the comics on Sherpa this week and see what you discover. There's a lot of wonderful stuff on there. (There's also a fair amount of rubbish, but there's a lot of really wonderful material out there.)

This weeks festivities have been arranged by Bill Wandel of Mixed Medications, Derrick Wood of Rogue Symmetry, Jon Carter of Cartertoons (who also supplied the logo) and 'tame' of Nano-World. Thanks to all of them. Read their strips.

Today's topic is Art and Painting. This dovetails nicely with a series I'm currently writing which is due to coincide with my hometown of Hastings' annual festival of chinstroking modern art, and the opening of the controversial Jerwood Gallery on the seafront. I had a few ideas that I couldn't fit into the main storyline, so I used one of them for today's subject.

Jones is trying to carve a lump of Hastings sandstone - outcrops of this rock appear all over Hastings and the Kent and Sussex Weald, and it's the stuff Hastings Castle is built of. It is not, repeat NOT a potato.