Diary of a Wombat Turns 20 (and I still feel 32)
It is impossible that it’s 20 years since Diary of a Wombat was published. It’s even more impossible that it was written about 36 years ago. It took me about three years to create a style that sounds as if a wombat spoke English, about two years for Lisa at HarperCollins to find the artist who could create a brown wombat in a black night, one who had exactly the expression of Mothball, and another year for us all to work on it. The whole book is impossible – back then ‘anthro
