ROOT BEERS #214: Christmas-U-Like

Christmas is almost there, but not before wishing for a gift you like.

That's when there are new ideas to simplify how the Christmas wishlist works for the 21st century.

This is when 'Christmas-U-Like' comes in. Just simply order your wish and then wait until Christmas Day comes in.

Emiko © HR•AM

ROOT BEERS #213: To(r)y Values

Have you ever heard of a troubled toy? You haven't?

Then, this might be a comic for you. The clown has enough troubles as they were mentioned in the comic. That, and the current status of clowns after when the new version of Stephen King's IT was released in cinemas.

I do hope this black comedy comic doesn't hurt your feelings before Christmas.

Oh yes, and Happy 57th birthday, Coronation Street!

ROOT BEERS #212: Queue Al!

Welcome to Coffee Blast, the place and comic in which I've designed, written and drawn for my Final Major Project at Southampton Solent University Illustration course.

Anyway, queuing for refreshments during the Christmas shopping season can be time-consuming, you know...

Lawrence from Creepbury Close © HR-AM

ROOT BEERS #210: Hat’s Life!

Just when you thought BBC Children in Need is over for another year, when suddenly, this comic came out of nowhere and is asking you to keep donating to BBC Children in Need at this address: http://www.bbc.co.uk/pudsey

Oh, and happy 89th birthday to Mickey and Minnie Mouse!

ROOT BEERS #208: D’oh-bamadare

This comic is to tell how some characters couldn't remember a single thing before something's nasty happen to hit the fan. Just saying.

ROOT BEERS #206: ApplFest

Today's Apple Day and at an apple festival, some of the group (plus Applebloom from My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic by Hasbro and Lauren Faust) are taking a group selfie with guess-which-company-this-phone-from.

Thanks to TheKinkyTurtle for the Applebloom colour keys. (Apologies for the lack of her cutie mark.)

ROOT BEERS #203: Radio Beers

In this strip to celebrate BBC Radio 1's fiftieth birthday, here's a little taster of one of my world's radio stations and its breakfast show, much to Ally Bobcat and Carol Woole's dismay. Especially at seven o' clock in the morning.

ROOT BEERS #202: Gaming Tripe

What to do when you get bored on Friday Night? Simple. Host a game night!
But, how is it possible? Especially when friends aren't around?

ROOT BEERS #201: #UpShitCreek25

What a way to start off this new slow season of comics, with commemorating the twenty-fifth anniversary of Black Wednesday, when the United Kingdom withdrew from the E.R.M., the Exchange Rate Mechanism. That move led to the disapproval rating of John Major's Conservative government. Also, there hasn't been any lemming jokes recently.

Expect some delays in the new comic series, owing to finishing off the archives.

Sez What? (RB 2017/18 Announcement)

Newsflush 18/06/2017

Hello, gang.

Well, it has been eleven months and eight days since I talked to you the last time.
First off, on the important note, how sorry I am to hear such tragic news concerning London Bridge, the Manchester Arena, Grenfell Tower... No, no, no. That's not the way to start this.

No, to start this journal is tell you how sorry I am for not bringing you the weekly Root Beers comic (The kind that usually goes on Saturday). This is possibly due to me doing my third and final year of doing the Illustration course at Southampton Solent University School of Art, Design, and Fashion. This involves doing my final major project, which is, of course, a graphic novel that sets in a coffee shop, entitled "Coffee Blast". While the Midweek Root Beers and the Tapas Root Beers are settling in quite nicely, the Saturday Root Beers might be resumed later, but who knows?

Finally, during the week between 9th-15th June 2017, there was an Illustration Degree Show at the Below Bar Campus of the Southampton Solent University School of Art, Design, and Fashion. After the degree show, there will be future plans ahead. First, the New Designers event at Business Design Centre, Islington, and then a week of the Coningsby Gallery, Tottenham Street (quite near the British Museum) and then, (fanfares) graduation on Thursday 13th July 2017!

And so until then, keep watching!
Al Welch

(P.S. By the way, my result of this Illustration course is marked as 2:2. Interesting, eh?)

Delayed Announcement

Now that my F.M.P. is finished, I can get back to doing my webcomic series. So, apologies to those who waited.

ROOT BEERS #188: The No-tel of Huw Smith

If you don't get it, I won't explain this....

ROOT BEERS #183: Sunny Beers

At last, the comic to showcase about the Sun on Sunday for the last five years!

Root Beers #180: What a Lot of Super-Drugs

This week’s comic takes place in a Swedish chemist shop, with apologies to who works with Not the Nine O’ Clock News.

Root Beers #179: The Future’s Apple?

In a sequel to last week's comic, this week's comic takes the biscuit with advertising.

Root Beers #178 - Root Ciders

Why wait for Cider Season, when you can enjoy this little beauty in this comic?

Root Beers #177 - A Lousy Comic

In this comic, the conservation was very much based on Monty Python's Lousy Song, with a few added pictures and characters.

My sincere apologies for many delays into the Advent Calendar and other comics.