When I began to use computers in the mid 90’s I have to admit that I played again with the comic format, able now to scan a page and re-work sections of it instead of starting the whole page again because of one mistake, and able also to create Doombad stories from scratch on computer. These computer stories became the final proof of the inability of Doombad to exist as comic with speech. Now the digital Doombad advanced in leaps and bounds as I experimented with various programmes including a 3D figure programme and I created in 1999 the first book: “Some People Don’t Know Who They Are”, in which text was separated from image so that each might echo the other. This wasn’t entirely new for Doombad. Prior to my first acquisition of a computer, whilst waiting for hardware and software to develop sufficiently to allow advanced drawing and image manipulation, I worked on a series of etchings—scenes with brief caption. I sold the etching press to make way for the apple Mac. “Some People Don’t Know Who They Are” was completely computer generated, but the book you see on this site is painted. The computer generated images were replaced by oil paintings and further thin books followed, all in oil paint. "Doombad’s Book of Rhymes" was done mostly on computer but by this time I had developed a technique working across several programmes that made the images look very natural. Sick of the indirectness of computers, I painted the Art of Doombad in a freer way, and in "Doombad in the Light of Day" I continued with a spontaneous application of oil paint, often with speedy execution—the expression and vitality apparent here is the culmination of all those years of drawing those comics pages for always my main aim was to make the line alive.