Sad news to report, as children’s comic Toxic have dropped Count Von Poo with immediate effect from today. The Count has had four(?) adventures so far in their pages, with maybe 7 or 8 left to print. These however won’t be shown.

The reasons why CVP has been dropped, were an unease with the kid-playing-with-poo interface, which i always anticipated but we’d been tweaking the strips so as to be careful, and I thought we’d found a nice groove. CVP was an immense amount of fun to write and draw, obviously. It’s a vampire who has imaginary adventures with faeces. How could that not be fun?

As to why it’s been dropped, a fair few people I’ve mentioned it to have suggested the recent wacky e coli outbreak over here in the UK this weekend, making the subject of kids handling poo maybe a bit sensitive. I dunno. What I can happily say is that Toxic said there’d been no complaints about CVP. NONE. Again, it’s a vampire. Who has imaginary adventures with FAECES. and NO ONE complained? Brilliant ^_^

Anyway, I don’t know whats going to happen with the remaining strips, Toxic own the copyright but hopefully there may be someway to show them online or summat. And in the meantime, I’ll be discussing other potential ideas with Toxic in the near future, so lets hope the relationship can continue. They are very lovely people.

But for now, farewell Von Poo. Proper sad you’re going.

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