An episode
Another episode
And another ;)
The next thing I knew was Peter calling me to say it was approved and we had to get into production immediately! So I found myself having to write, draw and letter the stories each week, without having had the time to develop a plot. I had to wing it each week, making it up as I went along. Which caused me some headaches when the editors demanded episode 7 to be delivered before I'd written 5 and 6!! All due to the Christmas holiday for the printers, who had to have things in advance for publication..
Eventually, as the story evolved, I did manage to get some plot of sorts developed so that I knew where it was going.
Peter hadn't actually written a story of any kind. He hadn't even designed the characters. All he had was the name 'Annie Droid'. Which as I later discovered wasn't even originally his. For when I did a search on Google for Annie Droid, I found some very odd tale that I couldn't quite understand!!
So I sat down and designed the characters for him and wrote a sample strip for presentation to the Times' editors.
Back in 1998 there was a great deal of nonsense talked and hyped up about a simple problem created by Microsoft and their lazy system coders, who had never considered that the date would ever need more than two digits to display. Hence Windoze 95, 98 etc. So companies began to panic at the idea that their system clocks would be unworkable once the calendar turned the page to 2000. Hence the myth of the Millennium Bug was born.
And when my friend Peter Richardson approached me with a request for help with a proposal he'd had nominally approved for the Times children's section of their Saturday edition, I saw it as an opportunity to wash away the bad after-taste of my experience with the 3D TV series Reboot; and tell the real story of what happens inside your computer.
So the best thing I can do here is show youa few of my favourite characters and scenes from the series. And maybe try to tell the story for those who missed it in the Times.
Now I just have to figure what it was all about. ;)
