Chase

This and Friday's strip are not as well drawn as I'd hope them to be. It's been a hectic couple of weeks at work, with the launches of several magazines and websites happening at the same time (to see the day job, take a look at New Steel Construction, ITS [UK] Review and CIHT Jobs) so I've been drawing whenever I get a spare moment. These two strips were inked at work today during a snatched half hour lunchbreak using some rather naff gel pens which skitter all over the page. Thank heavens the scanning, colouring and reduction process tightens up the drawings so much.

We B Pets

You all know this place - in America it's PetSmart and the UK equivalent is Pets at Home. They're essentially the same on both sides of the Atlantic, big pet warehouses with stack of rodent cages and walls of aquariums, though it must be said the British version doesn't look quite so industrial. We don't sell dogs and cats in them either - I got quite a turn the first time I walked through an American mall and found kittens playing in a window display.

Of course, to Smith and Jones, this isn't a pet store. It's more like one of those oriental supermarkets where you can pick out your own fish.