Bending spoons

I started out drawing this comic because there was a silly article in the Herald, about how children under 7 were more likely to be psychic because the bones in their head hadn’t solidified, and they were therefore more open to spirits. After 7, your skull closed over and you entered the age of reason. I wasn’t that reasonable after the age of 7, but thinking back, a lot of my obsessions were fueled by books that I got out of the school library. The College Street Normal Library had both the Uri Geller and the Olga Korbut book. I also remember reading a book about writers – Judy Blume’s Starring Sally J. Freedman as herself, and Louise Fitzhugh’s Harriet the Spy. I’ve always been impressionable.

Oh, and I’ve had a haircut. I was planning on drawing a comic about it, but I might not get round to it. Anyway, the woman with the flicky bob – that’s me.