About
Photo by Beckett Gladney
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When I heard that the Lord of the Ring movies were coming out, my friend Allison inspired me
to finally read the books and post my reports online. I enjoyed them so much that I decided to start a comic strip called Waiting For Frodo, which ran until the last movie came out.
Click image for bigger version and lyrics to the Urban Tapestry song.
I had great fun with it and enjoyed getting letters and photos from people around the world who were just as excited about the upcoming Lord Of The Rings movies. Hey, I had fans at Weta Digital:
I even started putting Shane McEwan (in above photo, on the right) in some of my comics.
Shane’s no longer at Weta but we’ve kept in touch over the years. You can now find him at Virtual Doughnutland and Ozpod. I still hope to meet him in person someday.
When news of the new Hobbit movie came out, I couldn’t help but thinking about starting up another strip…especially when a number of readers of my earlier strip started writing to me, all with the same suggestion. 
If you’d like to help spread the word about the comic, feel free to scoop the code below to post in your blog or site:
<a href="http://www.waitingforbilbo.com" target=blank><img src="http://www.waitingforbilbo.com/pics/promo/wfb-100x80-lightblue.jpg" width=100 height=80 alt="Waiting For Bilbo" border=0></a>
*** Make sure there is no space between “100×80-” and “lightblue.jpg” — sorry, I couldn’t get this to format correctly.***
You’ll end up with cool-looking button like this:
I’m a Toronto-based freelance writer and illustrator. You can see some of my other webcomics in the list in the right-hand navigation bar. You can also find out more about me in my personal online journal, Blatherings, as well as at DebbieOhi.com.
I hope you enjoy the comic! – Debbie