I really ought to have been working today, but I woke up and went on Facebook and it told me it was my friend Ferda’s birthday. Well she got me a rather nice Miffy book when it was my birthday, so I thought “I’ll write her a story with her as a panda,” knowing she likes pandas, thinking it would only take about thirty minutes.

So I wrote the story, which took about ten minutes, then decided to illustrate it with some quick MS Paint-style sketches. Drawing on the computer took too long and didn’t work out well, so then I switched to wax crayons and decided to scan them in. It kind of went from there into a full-scale production, which has taken me over four hours now, including all the time putting it up on my site and making sure each page links together.

Anyway, Happy Birthday Ferda, here’s you story:

Ferda & Mark by H. Benjamin Petrie

I’ve also linked to it in the Highlights section of my site.

Also, to any readers I still have, I again apologise for not updating. I’ve had writer’s block and been busy with uni work. That’s nearly finished though, and I do have a nearly finished article to post in the next week or so.