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Blast Off!
From The Worst Band in the Universe (Penguin Australia, Abrams USA, 1999)

Legendary PowerAxe maestro Skat and rotund keyboardist Buttonpusher watch as our hero Sprocc departs from WasteDump B19 to save the universe aboard The Ship That Sails on Sound. (For more info read the story!) Without doubt the greenest picture I have ever painted.



Blind Man's Bluff
From The Eleventh Hour (Penguin Australia 1988, Abrams USA, 1989)

A moment of joyous confusion and wild action during Horace’s eleventh birthday party, with Oliver the Pig centre stage. Clues to the book’s mystery abound, in the border, in the bingo board and elsewhere. (The Morse Code reveals a hint as to the name of one of the twin Giraffes). There are also three mice hidden somewhere in this picture!



Quetzalcoatl and Tezcatlipoca
From Creation Stories (MacMillan Australia, 1988)

It’s okay, I can’t pronounce them either. These two muscle-bound heroes were ancient Aztec gods whose fate it was to dismember the impressive-but-strangely- nameless hideous, multi-headed sea creature illustrated, in order that its various bits could be used to form the universe. You really don’t want to know what happened next.



Soong Chen Yi's Dragon
From The Discovery of Dragons (Penguin Australia, Abrams USA, 1996)

According to my alter-ego Rowland W. Greasebeam, 13th Century Chinese, teenage dragon-hunter Mei Ying named this gorgeous creature after her father, Soong Chen Yi, in gratitude for his forgiveness of her wayward behaviour in running away from home several years earlier. Mei Ying had, in the intervening years, carved out a niche in history by discovering and cataloguing a great many Chinese Dragons. This was one of her last discoveries.



Sprocc Stands Accused
From The Worst Band in the Universe (Penguin Australia, Abrams USA, 1999)

Sprocc, having dared to play an original melody in the sacred Temple of Tunes, looks suitably worried as his nemesis, the rubber-suited Musical Inquisitor, points the finger at him. A story about teenage angst and Freedom of Speech set in the Federation of Tuneful Worlds, The Worst Band in the Universe was a mammoth effort that consumed five years of my life.


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