Doombad has a long jagged history spanning some 30 years. Conceived as an abstract scribble, a scrap of geometry, she started out as a he, by default—a character that was hardly anything at all: a square head and no body. Due to a conflict of the mind, a doom, a bad thing, Doombad burst forth out of nothing and straight away began to entertain the masses. Doombad featured in animated films whilst still having no body, which was quite an accomplishment. These films were a huge success with audiences and as a reward Doombad was given the back end of a duck, and a body began to emerge. This geometric scribble held its own against seagulls, dogs and envelopes in those early, animated films where Doombad’s body, in inky frenzy, adopted a variety of abstract shapes, throughout which however she never lost her head. That head was always more or less rectangular. I’m sorry I won’t be showing you these early Doombads on this web site. They are archived somewhere but I don’t have time to excavate the cellar or the attic. If I did, then I could show you the fish with the roller skate leg that followed the duck-like Doombad. It wasn’t long however before the duck part disappeared and Doombad was left with something akin to legs and later arms loosely attached. For a quieter life, the limbed Doombad left the film industry and took to bed. There was no point really to all that hard work.