Is The Cyber Mermaid based on Plenty of Fish / POF ?

https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/The_Cyber_Mermaid.html?id=KYYJAgAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=kp_read_button&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false

This is now easy to find online, published in 2011. This took me 6 months to complete and then went through the lulu.com self-publishing process. At the time there was an alternative fish dating site - I think it was called 'Go Fishing' but I can't be certain.

The Cyber Mermaid Recycling Tea Bags Cartoon

Benefits Street inspired cartoon ; Catherine Tate's 'nan' inspired cartoon ; Superscrimpers inspired cartoon ; The Cyber Mermaid recycles tea bags cartoon ; Part of The Cyber Mermaid cartoon blog.

The SCREAM cartoon ; Gas price rises cartoon ; Heating or eating cartoon

Gas price rises cartoon ; Heating or eating

Virtual jobseekers, virtual jobsearch cartoon ; Big Brother 2013 Jobwatch

Notes : Story behind the workman's boot - a classmate of mine had asked the secretary of Job Club for a pair of steel capped workman's boots for his bin man induction day and ended up being given soft plastic shoes instead. My experience of Job Club was one of overcrowding, of computer wires dangling from a hole in the corner of the room and of not enough seats for bums. Click on pic to enlarge.

Skill Conditionality training cartoon ; Jobseeker cartoon ; Certificates

It appears that you can print out a certificate for every thing you do on the 'Skills Conditionality' training - an 8 week course that the Jobcentre Plus refer new jobseeker claimants onto.

Jobsearch cartoon ; Jobseekers cartoon ; Welfare benefit reform cartoon ; On the rock n roll...

Jukebox Jobsearch ; On the Rock n Roll...

Not quite finished this cartoon but I might as well launch it into the cybersphere. I am currently working on a cartoon strip of jobseeker cartoons that will chart some of the changes being implicated by the government.
I will be providing more notes for this cartoon. Part of the The Cyber Mermaid cartoon blog.
New version posted - have removed the debt clock that featured in this cartoon as I haven't yet seen this cartoon appear in any of the Google image galleries - very strange !

Strictly Come Dancing cartoon ; Strictly Come Dancing ; The Cyber Mermaid is 'Strictly-fied'

The Cyber Mermaid is 'Strictly-fied' - a term used on 'It Takes Two' on BBC 2 where a member of the public gets to wear Strictly Come Dancing garb for their day job. The Cyber Mermaid is wearing Glitter Ball earrings. Drawn on the 12th Dec.

Death of the Euro and 'living off the meat off me bones' cartoon ; Austerity ; Eurozone crisis

For now, the black holes of debt in the eurozone are being patched up so this cartoon is more of a satire on the media's portrayal of the eurozone crisis. Posted 4th July 2012, amidst the Barclays bank scandal.

Euro meltdown cartoon ; 'A pile of defaults' ; Grinning cheshire fat cat bonus pay

Tim Burton inspired style of cartoon. Click on pic for the full picture to be displayed. Posted on the day of the Greek elections. The candle has almost melted away, its last embers blowing the sign of the euro in smoke rings. The cobwebs at the corners of the desk represent the webs of debt in the eurozone. The cyber mermaid is sitting amongst a pile of default letters. The grinning cheshire cat is bloated and inflated - like a floating balloon - representing not only fat cat executive bonus pay but also, fat cat tax evasion. In the book, 'Alice in Wonderland', the cheshire cat disappears at will which begs the question, where HAS all the money gone ?

Cartoon Bookmark ; 'Wag with a mermaid bag' cartoon ; The Cyber Mermaid cartoon blog ; Jane Air bookmarks

It's quackers ! 

It's a wag with a mermaid bag !

Bookmarks are done on plain white card at a local printing shop. 
Free with my ebay items ( janeairvintage ).   

Press Release ; A Steampunk Media Satire ; The Cyber Mermaid lets off steam...

To quote David Cameron on 'The Andrew Marr Show' today 29 April, 'we live in a 24 hour media news world'. That was the original theory behind this cartoon. Cartoon posted at a time when the 'media' itself is in the spotlight. My own notes for this cartoon will be at http://cartoonnotes.blogspot.com