One day, Mike was sitting outside
in his garden, wondering what to do next, when he heard a voice say:
'Ben's World'. Mike looked around. There was no one there; not even
an alien! Fortunately, Mike eventually discovered who Ben was.
Ben was very impressed and thought
it might be a good idea to do a cartoon strip. Gordon and Lucy thought
so too. So Ben and Mike went off to see John, who just happened to
have a new pen that could draw everything in 'Ben's World'. Ben told
Mike and John what to write and draw and very soon 'Ben's World' came
to be a cartoon strip.
Although it isn't very
easy to get anyone to take a new comic strip, even one done by Ben,
eventually, after a lot of hard work, Ben's World first appeared
in the Wolverhampton Express and Star and has
since appeared in papers in London and Australia and, most recently,
in the GloucestershirePost and Gloucestershire
Echo.