When I first embarked on bringing Fred Fortune's extraordinary misadventures to life in the form of one page gag strips some twenty something years ago, the UK was in a massive recession and we were under the icy grip of the Conservative Party... Life was tough, the day job was a dead end and poorly paid, there was little or no prospect of much of a future. So, I guess the strips were a good excuse to let off steam and poke fun at the establishment... with lots of chases with flying cars added on for good measure.
Here's some art... This was the first proper Fred strip from 1990. The character had been slowly evolving in my head and in lots of unfinished mega-epics (usually scribbled down in the back of school notebooks) since the mid eighties, until I finally realized that I could get it done if the story was only one page!
Now I'm about to unleash Fred upon the world again... we're in a massive recession and under the icy grip... hmmm... Everything really does just go round and round in circles...
All Fred's one pagers and old stuff will be published in a new title, 'Fred Fortune: Gold' which will run for six issues and includes previously unpublished stuff and lots more.
And just for the fun of it... Here's the cover of 'Mondo' #13, Fred's first appearance on it's cover, drawn by me back in 1993.
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