Blue Rock was saved onto my computer on December 12, 2009. So this was about 6 months or so before I did the Apples series introducing Nambassa. He was originally named after the chicken breed Plymouth Rock( Doc / Nambassa being a blue Rooster) . The Apples strips take place in this world’s New Zealand and a homage ( besides Peanuts) is paid to the great New Zealand strip Footrot Flats by Murray Ball. A strip unknown here in Canada, and if it wasn’t for a Kiwi acquaintance knowing my love for comic strips sharing some of his copies with me I never would have been aware of it either. So in keeping with giving nods to New Zealand, the roosters namer was changed, named after tribe and music festival in New Zealand.
This was me experimenting with one scene in multiple panels with movement through out. Later of course the lion’s crash and free Nambassa, who in Doc’s body wasn’t a bird/human at this point,and here he escapes on his own.
