If you could have something named after you, what would it be?
I’m not sure I care that much about having something named after me (I named a couple of stars after my ex. She feels further away than both of those stars now, even though we both still work in the same building), but I’d like to think that I coined the term ‘stripisode’. Obviously, comic strips have been around a long ol’ time, but I wanted a term for one of my comic strips ‘Still Life’, which is longer than a standard newspaper strip, but shorter than a full page strip in the Beano, so the term ‘stripisode’ was born. It’s not in the Oxford English Dictionary yet, but I’m working on it.
One of around 150 ‘stripisodes’ I’ve created (inspired by an original idea from my great friend Mike Chapman). Check them out on my Facebook page, John. D. Payne Author.
I write novels and short stories and draw and write cartoons. The main cartoon I'm working on at the moment is Still Life. It's about a man who sits at home on his sofa all day and yet bizarre things still happen to him. At the moment him and his sofa are stuck on a desert island. Check out Still Life Series Five: Beyond the Sofa on this site.
My debut novel is out now. It's called 'A Fifth Visitor', and it's a very unofficial sequel to 'A Christmas Carol'. The story picks up five years after the events of Dickens' classic, and we see how Scrooge is getting on with his promise to always keep Christmas. A new spirit pays him a visit and convinces Scrooge that he's not doing enough to redeem himself, so they both travel to the future to save a young nurse called Grace, but there's something big that this new spirit is keeping to himself. I'm developing a website dedicated to my writing, so watch this space. One of my short stories is available on amazon kindle. If you want to check it out, it's called 'Richmond's Rarity'. It's about a late night hospital radio DJ. I've written it under my author name of John D Payne.
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