I don’t feel too worried about letting you in on my little contest entry. I don’t imagine more than a hanfull of people read my blog on a regular basis. If one of you rips me off, I’ll probably be able to track you down. Anyway, what better concept for 8–10 year old kids than pirates, right? So, Polly is the story of a parrot and his pirate who are marooned on a tropical island. Now, here’s where it gets original — the pirate is always coming up with silly plans to rescue himself from the island and his bumbling sidekick pal (Polly) is always messing the plans up (usually by unwittingly exposing the flaws in the pirate’s plans.) There’s also a monkey on the island who drops by from time to time. He’s either going to be a goof-off too, or really smart. I haven’t decided.

I’m also trying my hand at a new technique for drawing the cartoon. You’ll probably recognise my art, but maybe it looks a little more refined or something. Maybe it just looks messy. Who knows. Anyways, you can check out a bit of the cartoon already. It’s just a second or two test of the background and the two main characters. They don’t really do anything yet. But the ocean waves and the volcano smokes. There are no voices. If you’d like to help out with an uncredited story idea, or just other comments, please do!