Alright our kid? I'm Thom Alun Jones, creator and hostage of the characters in Woods For The Trees, and an all-round hard-core unemployable long-haired hippy bastard. I'm originally from Congleton, Cheshire, a small town in the middle between No and Where. I often talk bad about my home, but I must like it as I based my cartoon just up the road.

I now live in Leeds where I sudied Music Technology at Leeds Metropolitan University for three years...partly because I didn't want to get a job right out of school, and mainly because I justlove being in £12,000 worth of debt.

But hey, it's nothing that 25 years working in an office and the resultantinevitable psycholomogical breakdown won't cure.

My interests other than comics include; listening to music, playing music, recording music, drinking, computer games, films, and Ice Hockey.

I first started reading comics when I was young, and I found Steve Bell's "IF" in one of my dad's copies of The Guardian and thought it was funny. I didn't really draw draw, I doodled. Not like "I wanna be an artist" or anything, I was too busy playing football or something with friends and having fun to want to sit down for ages and draw. That seemed like work to me. So I never really followed up on it until I got to Uni.

Now I've noticed that most webcartoonists state Pogo, Peanuts, or Calvin and Hobbes as their inspiration...Me? I've never read any of those comics as we don't get them over here. Only comic strips I really read apart from IF is Doonesbury, which I state to this day is one of the best comics ever. I did also read comic books however, reading Sin City when I was about 12 and Tank Girl when I was like 15-16...both of which are awesome. But still, I'd never even heard of "webcomics" until one day in late 2004.

In one of my "stoner" sessions at Uni, I browsed the Interweb for stuff. I dunno what I was looking for, but I found Ozy and Millie, by David Simpson. I fell in love with it, and it's a feeling thats still here. His characters were so funny and unique, and the style itself was really nice to look at.

On his old links page, I started looking at other comics, bookmarking those I liked, and scanning their links pages for more.

I found some of my old doodles that I used to draw and doodle as a kiddie, until I was about 14 or so, when I started getting into music. I'd bought my first Bass Guitar (which I still own...and is broken as smeg) and got into a "band" with some friends from school. I still doodled, but mainly in my schoolbooks. I once drew a picture on a German test of a friend on LSD, and got sent to the headmistress. But she looked like a penguin and has no friends, so I win in the long run.

When I got to University I discovered multitudes of ways to waste time. Smoking cigarettes and recreational use of narcotics was just a means to an ends. I was living with two arty-farty people, who knew drawing. One day, when very stoned, I decided to draw them a picture of Ozy from Ozy and Millie, which to this day is my favourite webcomic.

But being the sort of person that vomits drunkenly in the face of adversity, I kept going, and drawing random shyte until I eventually joined Deviant Art in early 2005. I found people there that seemed to actually like my artwork, which gave me a push to try and refine them. I also joined the Ozy and Millie fanforum, where I met many uber cool people that one day I will visit and eat all their biscuits.

I started producing strips for my own amusment and posting them on DA until February 14th 2006, when after many months of wrangling with HTML and screaming at innanimate objects and programs I made this "website"...basic though it is.

Given that I view this comic more as a hobby than a profession, you have to understand the way I do it. If I'm not in the mood for it, or am doing anything else then I will (more than occasionally) not do it. This is not because I don't care, I do more than you can know. It's more that this is something I'm passionate about, and I want to keep enjoying drawing it...and if I tried to stick to some schedule that put me out then I'd just end up hating it and not drawing anymore...heck, I SHOULD be drawing right now as I type this given that it's a Friday, but what the smeg, eh?

Some important things you must know:

1 - I will NEVER try and hold this comic to ransom for money.

2 - I will NEVER ask you for money. If you want to buy something, email me and I'll think about it.

3 - I will ALWAYS try to update at least twice a week, with the best being 3 (mon, wed, fri)

4 - I'm game for guest strips for this, or other comics.

5 - If you do ever give me any money, I will take it, and it will be spent on beer and pot.

You made it through all that? Dude, you gots staying power right there. But on the plus side, now you have all the information you need to stalk me...

Right, back to the job hunt.