Fit the 7th: Strange & Charm 2009

I have very vivid memories of sitting in an 'animation studio' (read: windowless unventilated art storage cupboard in which someone had put a table and a Mac) clicking a button to help make this film:

 

Equally, I have vivid memories of sitting in an animation studio singing Ra Ra Rasputin, making spoonerisms out of application titles, and drawing things lightly mocking the film I was helping to make. I only mention this because watching the above film, and noticing that someone could easily add voices after 3:53 inserting an invitation to saucy thrills on the part of the gentleman on the left to the gentleman on the right (the gentleman on the right would demure, because dude, there's a dead girl right there) is a prerequisite for understanding what the hell is going on here:

And also that there is a mirror monster made from wire, but that goes without saying.

But then not everything I drew in the cupboard was about necrophilia. Some things, for example, are about novel methods of feline transportation.

 

And unfortunate trends in men's swimwear.

 

Strange & Charm is Caitlin Hart & Katharine Gray.

Fit the 6th: The Curious Life & Times of Messrs Strange & Charm, Gentlemen Investigators of Paranormal Phenomena, 2008-2009

Once upon a time, there were a couple of humans who had (or have) the idea, characters, plot and world for a graphic novel. It was (or is) to be about two fictional humans called Henry Strange and - deep breath - Theophilus Abraham Alexander de Leonferre Charmondeley, otherwise 'Charm'. It was also to be about religious tyranny, exorcism, sociology, macaroons, mental illness and Scandinavian policemen. It was (or is) going to be terribly meaningful and not a little harrowing.

Then I met one of these humans, in a cupboard, when she was making a stop-motion film featuring these singular beings. In between 'assisting' (clicking the mouse button on command to screencap) and shouting 'Khaaaaan', I did some cartoons of the pair in question, and then carried on doing that for about two years. I will now never be able to take either Messrs Strange or Charm seriously.

The writing at the top there is the rule by which I still have to remember which one of these people is which: Charm is strange and Strange is charming.

This is basically all you need to know about these two in one picture.

Or possibly this.

But not, strangely, this.

Strange & Charm is Caitlin Hart & Katharine Gray.

Fit the 5th: Games 2009

There's a massive stonking great gap in my books, gamewise, between 2006ish and 2009, can't think why. In any case, the most recent game-based hideousness I did was for some people in Sydney who wanted concept art for a game. And when I say 'people' I mean 'teenagers I vaguely knew and had no faith in their project ever getting off the ground'. Nevertheless, I made them a fantasy-like heroine.

Just once I want to play a game starring a misanthropic chain-drinking beserker with ovaries. Possibly written by Erik Wolpaw. Is that too much to ask?

Frankly I have no idea what happened to the game, but since the prospective protagonist didn't 'look enough like a girl' for a while there they might have, ahem, looked elsewhere for art.