Fierce

Originally published 11 January 2010

Ooooo! Doesn't Jones look fierce in this strip? This is another hangover from the way I used to draw the cats in the 80s - nowadays I don't bother to draw the entire eye and then add lids. Instead I use a technique I've borrowed from Dexter's Laboratory - when Jones gets annoyed her eyes go all horn-rimmed.

Nowadays in this situation I'd draw her with her eyes wide open, anyway. She'd just be playing. Here she seems to have too much intent…