Thomas Wogan Is Dead 

Thomas Wogan, no relation to Terry, lives a rather mundane life.  Wogan’s favourite meal is beans on toast, even though he hero worships Delia Smith, and his life is banal to say the least.  Until the point where he passes through a bright light and finds himself in a waiting room with no recollection of how he got there.   

It’s quite possible that the other occupants of the waiting room may have some of the answers but they also seem a little confused as to the purpose of the waiting.  These occupants?  A cuckoo, a sea urchin, a toad, a bat, a fish and an egg.  Bizarrely all can speak, bar the egg obviously, and all have a tale of sorts to tell.  Can Thomas work out what has happened to him before the large LED counter in the room reaches the number on his ticket? 

Dave Hughes, the author of this short tome, is another self-taught cartoonist picked up for publishing by Tabella.  By day Dave is a laboratory technician and is also a monthly cartoonist for science magazine Geoscientist. Thomas Wogan Is Dead is a short book, some 88 pages long but it’s a rather dry, dark and quirky tale that raised a few chuckles along the way.  

The story of Thomas Wogan is suitably banal whilst some of the short set pieces with his fellow waiting room companions are well realized and far more interesting, which I’m guessing is the point of this tale. 

A short read but a good one nonetheless…