THE JOYS OF BLOGGING...

"There is only one thing in life that is worse than
being talked about, and that is not being talked about."
said Oscar Wilde, so perhaps I should be flattered to find
myself the subject of someone's obsessive attention and the
extremes they're prepared to go to in order to vent their
bitter, vindictive and malicious spite against me.

This saddo, who clearly has too much time on his hands,
has created a Twitter account in my name, with my avatar,
filled with lies, distortions and various absurdities, in the hope
of convincing others that I'm not a very nice person.  I'm dis-
appointed, as I thought I was doing fine on my own in that
regard, and it's a bit of a blow to my pride to learn that I
seemingly require some assistance in the matter.

Take a look at his tweets so far:  (Click to enlarge.)

To read them in sequential order, start at the bottom
one and work your way up.

And look - he's even got two followers.

He talks about irony, but seems unaware of what the

word means.  I post my opinions on my own blog, so how

does that qualify me as a troll?  And whenever I comment on

another blog, I always do so in a civil manner.  Yet here we have

someone who's disturbed to such an extent that he's created an

account in my name, using my avatar, not for satirical purposes

as he claims, but for no other reason than to  malign me.  Isn't

that the epitome of 'trolling'?  And that's the only time I ever

use the word - to point out the irony of someone doing

that which they (falsely) accuse me of.

Further, as any fair minded person can see, I welcome

debate, discussion and disagreement on this blog, and have

never 'banned' anyone for it.  I recently told someone calling

themselves 'The Source' not to bother responding further after

he insulted everyone with a different view to him by describing

them as stupid, which I wasn't prepared to allow.  Disagree

with me all you want to, but don't resort to rudeness just

because others don't see things your way.

Every one of his assertions is a distortion of the truth.

I've never once said that I chose lettering because it 'paid

more' than art (per page obviously);  what I actually said was

that I stuck with lettering because I was able to do more pages

of lettering  in a day than I'd have been capable of producing as

an artist.  When I lettered a one-page strip for LOADED mag

back in the '90s, it paid £30 for what amounted to no more

than half an hour's work.  So you see, I didn't quite say

what he claims I did.  Truth is obviously not his thing.

It's interesting that the lies in these ridiculous tweets

are the same as ones expressed on another blog by one of

a very small group (you could squeeze them all into a 'phone

box) who seem determined to bad-mouth me.  I alerted Twitter,

who, I am advised today, have now suspended the account, and

perhaps it won't be very long before the source (see what I did

there?) is identified and publicly exposed as the lying, twisted,

odious little scumbag that he is.  Incidentally, if my doppel-

ganger can provide one instance where I've ever blamed

others for not working in comics, I'd like to see it.

At least now you can see for yourselves that when it

comes to lies, distortions, and obsessional, petty, small-

minded behaviour, if anyone deserves to be called a 'troll', 

it's pretty obvious that it isn't me.  No doubt this sad indi-

vidual will have another go at this kind of thing, so if any

of you become aware of it before I do, I'd appreciate

you letting me know.  Some people, eh?

And in case you were wondering, yes, I do have a

pretty good idea of who's behind it all, but I'll wait until I

have conclusive proof before saying anything.  Perhaps his

internet pals should be asking themselves if they want to be

associated with this sort of behaviour, or, indeed, such an

unpleasant, unbalanced individual.  Nice to know that I'm

the cause of such vexation to him 'though - I almost feel

a sense of achievement.  After all, some @rses

deserve to be roundly kicked.  

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