Animal

THIS WEEK, WE bring you an Emo Kid episode in glorious Technicolour! Wow, it feels like the glorious age of 1920s cinema all over again! Not that I was part of the glorious age of 1920s cinema, of course. Thanks go to my lovely wife Naz for colouring this one in... I'm contemplating making every comic colourful from here on in. All in favour say 'Aye', or just drop me an e-mail, because the chances are I don't know where you live, and even if I did, I wouldn't be able to hear you saying 'Aye' unless you called me on the phone. And if I don't know you, I'm not sure I'd want you calling me anyway; you might be scary. How do you spell 'Aye' anyway? Answers on a postcard. Or in a comic, if you like, with one answer in each panel - 'Aye'. 'I'. 'Eye'. 'Aaiiiiii'. I'll stop now.

Introducing Job, the Envelope Boy

INTRODUCING YET ANOTHER new character to Lame Champion Comics, 'Job, the Envelope Boy'. Aren't you all lucky! This story is an introduction to the comedy of errors which is Job's attempt at finding, well, a job. Scroll down to the Cast of Characters to find out more. I apologise for the difference in comic size this week. There is a logical explanation, but as they say, I could tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.

Pigeon-Hole

MY WIFE HAS just finished an essay questioning whether disability rights activism has resulted in a 'movement'. Needless to say, after she finished I nicked all her books and did some reading of my own. A common opinion, according to some sociologists and academics, is that a disability rights movement has not formed completely because, well, disabled people can't physically form political groups, can they? And even if they did give it a go, they don't have a single agenda like the feminists, black or gay rights groups do because there are too many different types of impairments and needs. But most disabled activists themselves argue that there is a movement going on, an underground movement which focusses on our similar experiences and feelings of discrimination and social exclusion. This movement, they say, has nothing to do with impairments, but everything to do with shared experience. The only people who do not see a movement forming are those who don't share that experience. The reason that the academic or sociological (often able-bodied) world do not see a movement forming is their habit of pigeon-holeing disabled people as politically or physically 'unable'. And there, my friends, lies the inspiration for the above comic...

Disabled people? Pigeons? We aren't so different.