Oxbridge Pissheads is really the result of lots of other ideas from previous failed projects being cobbled together in a half-assed manner. The germ of its present incarnation was born in the aftermath of a pill session wherein various friends and I scuttled furiously around Cambridge in the small hours getting up to assorted randomness and no good; in an idle moment afterwards, I envisaged Cambridge's night as entirely populated with small, isolated groups of random reprobates gleefully beetling around at high speed, climbing over architecture, constructing erratic and short-lived but servicable flying machines from materials ransacked from back alleys, falling in the river and emerging with high-pitched squeaks, and conducting brief and manic duels on bridges, clad in three-quarter length tweed and college scarves.

The original Oxbridge Pissheads was a one-off, hastily knocked-off gag entitled Oxbridge Pissheads Demonstrate *How To Correctly Wear Your Scarf* (A Public Service And Essential Etiquette Guide). It's too injokey and low-quality to be worth reproducing in full: thinly-disguised references to specific members of the student body ensured that most copies were torn down within a couple of days of me sticking photocopies on notice boards around college. I still consider this high praise.

This also introduced for (as far as I can recall) the character eventually to become Carflounge, then titled The Romantic Poet. (Carflounge's name came from an abortive speedIF premise). Not that OP was intended to be character-driven at the time.

After this, I toyed around with the idea of expanding the basic concept into an ongoing webcomic; I was very influenced in the way this would work by The Pinkey Suthers Show and the Introducing... (formerly ...For Beginners) line of books. Assembling the cast was a delicate blend of looting former failed works for whatever I could grab, and fine-tuning to give definite roles for each character. (Hu and Tsawac are the narrators, Jack is the all-purpose straight, unfortunate and ideological whipping-boy, Carflounge the over-the-top tragic poet, and Nusku is sort of the lascivious siren only not quite).

Nusku Capleton was created for Sleeploss Glows, a vastly overambitious graphic-novel piece that never got past the first page except in sketches. Nusku was vaguely sketched out to be a love interest for Tsawac Poitier, who was the piece's heroine, but detailed planning never got that far. This sketch isn't the first image of Nusku, but it's the one in which her character really coalesced. (I tried to ink this after I scanned it in, but it wasn't on cartridge paper and it got messy).

Sleeploss contained a lot of ambitious, experimental and intentionally opaque stuff; as such it was a whole lot of fun to do, but very very slow and not really comprehensible.	This is the first image of Tsawac Poitier in Sleeploss; she'd been created previously, more or less, although once again her personality didn't really gel until Sleeploss.	Tsawac's signature pose, the first inked version.