The Tetrapack offensive

The next month's worth of cartoons show what happens when a thought goes spiralling off in all directions. They may not seem to be related, but they all spun off from the cartoon on 6th January, the one with the coffee jar which sparked off a lot of discussion about the behaviour of blue tits.

The carton Smith is struggling with is called a TetraPak. The man responsible for this package lives in a huge estate near Wadhurst, East Sussex, that I drive past every day on the way to work and is estimated to be the the 83rd richest man on the planet. One day I shall drive up his driveway with a carton of milk, ring his doorbell and challenge him to open one of his own packages, just to see if he can figure out how to do it. But I'm sure he employs a little man in livery specially to open his milk for him.

If this month's batch of strips look a bit different to how they normally appear, that's because I've changed my art materials. I'm now using Fountain Pentels as they give a more varied line. The lettering's done using an italic version of the same pen -it'll take a few strips to get settled again. These strips were also done on the floor in the living room of a house in New Mexico where the only adequate lighting came from the Christmas Tree.