Occasionally, I am required to do a little publicity work for various books, I tend to have most fun doing this when it is not one of my own books. Which is to say when its a Harvey Duckman, as I don’t worry quite so much about getting the tone right. I also can go a tad wilder thank normal…

Which brought me to Lucy (who is not based on my niece Lucy, on the off chance any family read this…)

I don’t know what Lucy is, not any more, I do find her slightly creepy I must admit, but that was more or less the point. The Latest Harvey Duckman , volume 13 of all things , which has seemed cursed while we were putting it together as it has taken about nine month longer than planned, has a lot of stories with teddy bears in them…

None of these stories involve a character called Lucy, or a thing that used to be called Lucy… Or if this is an older version of Lucy…

I’m not sure why Lucy exists, or they thing that used to be Lucy exists, or what it has to do with a book that doesn’t have a character called Lucy in it. But the idea formed in my mind and I ended up makes several little memes based upon it…

Anyway the 134th Harvey Duckman collection is out now, a lot of the stories are dark , many of them creepy and most have Teddy Bears in them. One has a pot plant, which is to say a plant in a pot. Not that the pot is a pot but that’s beside the point… And no Lucy…

Anyway I have to go now, there is someone at the door, a small figure in a white dress holding a bear. I am not worried by this, not at all…