My second Jan Mark book, and probably the first book where I thought, "You know, some of these pictures are OK." I can remember so vividly taking my shoes off and balancing them on the sloping drawing board to do that illustration with the mouse. I think I made the mouse up. I still wear boring, sensible lace up shoes until they fall to bits before I replace them. Incidentally, notice the lack of outlines. I went through a stage of not liking outlines. Too prosaic, I thought. Unfortunately, when you work like I have here with close cross hatching, although it looks fine in the hardback version on good paper, when the paperback comes out, and it's printed on stuff like toilet paper, it just looks a mess. We live and we learn.

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