Hayley Campbell's comedy hour. Does anybody have a report for the old man?

hayley Campbell is still assessing what will be her trajectory through the world. She is currently looking at the prospect of 'professional bookhandler' as outlined at Skoob, which is the letters of 'books' rearranged, hence 'skoob glob'. Anway, there's an anecdote there about how Flann O'Brien had the idea of offering a bookhandling service to illiterates with big houses. He offered to come round and go through your shelves, thumbing your volumes, dog-earing pages here and there and adding scribbled notes in the margins such as "Yes, indeed! How true!" and "I don't agree at all" and "Well, well, well. Quite, but Boussuet in his Discours sur l'histoire Universelle has already established the same point and given much more forceful explanations". If there were still people who cared about not appearing illiterate and therefore customers to be had, I could see Hayley making a go of it. Hey, Hayley, while you're there you can spill soda pop on their computer keyboard and put a jam sandwich in the video player.

No, wait I forgot, you're not a kid any more.


Panel from The Years have Pants

wee Hayley Campbell has just had a sojourn on the isle of Skye. Here's my little piece of it:


That's a cask strength special (with the top already knocked off it, as you can see.) Here's Hayley herself:




Isn't that the most beautiful sight ever? And the girl's not a bad looker either.
This is how she looks in one of the previously unpublished pages in "The Years have Pants"

In my neighbourhood

hayley Campbell at a cafe table feeding wild lorikeets:

happy birthday

to hayley campbell


(1989)

covers- DHP no. 98

Sometimes the black and white drawing looks like it didn't involve very much work, but once it's been colored you couldn't add or subtract a line without ruining it. This is another where the colorist completely understood the desired effect, and I don't know who did it (When I visited Dark Horse in '93 they had a colouring department with three or four people working industriously at their monitors) and I don't think we sent a colour guide as I would have made Joe's hair white instead of blond. The drawing illustrates the part of the story where Joe Theseus meets God, and God turns out to look exactly like a child's crayon drawing. Pete and I both tried to draw God in a child's style but it just wasn't working. It was coming out too cute, too knowing. Another thing about a child drawing a comic strip is that the character would never look the same twice. You would never even get the same proportions reccurring. Thus for authenticity I got wee hayley campbell to draw God. She'd have been eight at the time the story was drawn and just a couple of months older at the time of this cover, dated 28/10/94. I honestly didn't think I'd get away with having her draw the 'hand of God' in the foreground of the actual cover, but I decided to brazen it out. Nobody said anything to the contrary and it remains a favourite of mine. Pete had more of a sense of big heroic figures, so he worked over and inked Joe Theseus, but the Eyeball Kid looks like mine. And the girl at the back is Pete's.
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hayley campbell, no longer eight, reviews Beirut's London gig at audioscribbler.
She has also been looking up Grose's 1811 dictionary of the Vulgar tongue. This is probably what Neil Gaiman was looking up when Alan Moore wrote (in the appendix for From hell Chapter 3 page 3):
"The expression , in this instance, was passed on to me by Mr Neil Gaiman, who has a dirty mouth in at least seven centuries."
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