I've still been cartooning even over the last few months but the only comic strips I've been drawing are A Time To Laugh cartoons for my church's weekly bulletin. I will be continuing these and from now on, will be posting weekly cartoons (in fact, hopefully over the next few weeks slightly more than once a week to get the website up to date).

However, I've decided I won't be drawing Sev Space, The Pits or Twist cartoons anymore. This means no more punchline contests as the occasional A Time To Laugh contest is not regular enough to sustain a contest. My apologies to anyone disappointed at this decision. Cartooning has always been my passion and how I define myself but I'm learning it is possible for a person to change their priorities.

The reason I've stopped drawing is because I find myself spending so much time working on Skeptical Science, a website about global warming science. It was never my intent for the website to take over my life so dramatically - it began as a nerdish little hobby amidst other websites about cricket and web programming (which are also sorely neglected).

For those making personal attacks against me on the discussion thread (and believe me, I've got a lot worse), I will add that I'm not working on Skeptical Science because I'm a tree-hugging hippie - I've never been an environmentalist (and don't really consider myself one now). I have little to no interest in politics or economics (I've actually voted conservative most of my life).

The reason I have such a fire in the belly about global warming is because I can just see myself as an old man being confronted by my daughter Gaby (and hopefully a bevy of gorgeous grandchildren, all born in wedlock) asking what the hell were our generation thinking?! Ice sheets are melting, glaciers are retreating, sea levels are rising and yet there's an increasing effort to deny man-made global warming is even happening. I'd like to at least be able to look her in the eye and say I tried to do my bit. And my contribution is to fight the disinformation and confusion that is being sowed about global warming science.

Let me finish by thanking all sevilians for the contributions they've made to sev over the years. It's been a wild and unexpected ride, going in many crazy directions. The generosity and kindness of spirit expressed towards me from so many sevilians has been overwhelming at times and I'm very grateful for the many friends I've made from all over the world. ]]> Wed, 17 Feb 2010 12:12:18 GMT Okay, just letting everyone know I haven't closed down sev. I don't plan to close the site. While I've been preoccupied with other things at the moment and I may not be as active on sev as I have in the past, I'm still drawing cartoons. In fact, over the last month, I've still been drawing weekly <A HREF='http://cartoons.sev.com.au/index.php?catid=200'>A Time to Laugh</A> cartoons but haven't got around to putting them online - here is one from a few weeks back on a <A HREF='http://cartoons.sev.com.au/archivepage.php?cartoonid=j116'>cloud of witnesses</A> (this cartoon makes more sense if you read <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=hebrews%2011-12:1&version=NIV">Hebrews 11 and the first verse of Hebrews 12</a>). http://www.sev.com.au/news.php?articleid=4415 A Time to Laugh cartoons but haven't got around to putting them online - here is one from a few weeks back on a cloud of witnesses (this cartoon makes more sense if you read Hebrews 11 and the first verse of Hebrews 12). ]]> Mon, 14 Dec 2009 10:27:02 GMT Lotsofinterviews.com has a web comic spotlight where they interview web cartoonists. They've just posted an <a href="http://www.lotsofinterviews.com/#/wcssev/4536605673">interview with myself about sev</a> http://www.sev.com.au/news.php?articleid=4414 interview with myself about sev ]]> Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:30:53 GMT