Notes on today's comic:

For those who don't know, Black Friday in America is the day after Thanksgiving, and is seen in retail as the start of the run-up to Christmas... characterized by hordes of shoppers lining up in the early hours of the morning to grab the limited-quantity offers available. That's not how the name originated, though, according to this Wikipedia article. Black Friday in England, incidentally, is simply Friday the 13th (so we had three this year: February, March and November).

I had drawn the original version of this strip last year, but because I started online in December, I wasn't able to use it. Problem is, by the time one year had passed, the art style has changed - so I had to redraw it AGAIN (because I'd already done it once when I was removing the references to Target). For anyone interested, here's the original.

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Monday 23 November 2009

Up to 64 countries now... with the addition of Sri Lanka, Venezuela and Malta! If you click here, you can see them all... Took quite a bit of doing, this... and I've had a bit of a geography lesson in the process :)

Wednesday 18 November 2009

Sorry the comic was up late today. I was rather tired after I got back home, and I needed a nap!

I've decided to get rid of the Paper or Plastic? Facebook Page... For one thing, there really wasn't much I was saying, other than the number of visits to this site, and additions of countries and new fans of the Facebook Page itself - and I can do that kind of stuff in this section of this site. Secondly, in all the time I had the page, I only ended up with 19 fans... and there wasn't much interaction anyway (which is what I'd hoped for when I set up the page in the first place).

Wednesday 11 November 2009

Since March, people from no less than 61 countries around the world have visited the Paper or Plastic site! Thanks to all of you who have visited - although I planned for the comic to be potentially seen worldwide, I'd not actually expected that I'd do so well in such a short space of time...