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A comic strip featuring a baby and a person in a pink outfit. The baby identifies a spider as “Clubonia diversia” before crushing it with their hand. The final panels show the baby smiling and stating, “We are the dominant species, gdbd-chan” and “It’s just the natural order of things..”
A comic strip featuring a baby and a person in a pink outfit. The baby identifies a spider as “Clubonia diversia” before crushing it with their hand. The final panels show the baby smiling and stating, “We are the dominant species, gdbd-chan” and “It’s just the natural order of things..”

Cartoonist Nathan Cowdry introduces a strange and wonderful world in his comic, Western Voyeur

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Date
4 September 2015

Western Voyeur is a manga-inspired exploration of the world of characters Porcha, Gobo-Chan and Dogson. In the comic by cartoonist Nathan Cowdry we see Gobo-Chan transcend forms from unicorn to angel globule and expert leg shaver. It also plays the character of the protagonist, Po-Cha-Chan’s best friend and comrade, advising her on running over badgers, aiding her self-esteem and taking abuse for trying to take over at the driving seat.

In the Fast Show-esque video promoting his comic, Brighton-born Nathan plays golf whilst smoking a cigar, and is interviewed in plush, leathery surroundings where he identifies “Mother Nature and Neil Buchanan” as his main sources of inspiration. The interview falls into a wine-infused stupor, but not without golden moments of promotion such as: “ Western Voyeur transcends the form, I’m working in parameters that have never been explored. I’m working with ideas that have never been shared, there’s a whole world out there and I’m exploring it with my mind.”

An illustration of a person with long blonde hair riding a large pink unicorn across a cloudy sky. The scene is filled with small pink creatures and floating hearts. Bold Japanese text at the top reads “ウェスティン ヴォイイヤー”, with “Western Voyeur” written below in a stylised font. A row of character portraits at the bottom includes labels such as “Gobo-chan” and “Kidney-san”.
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A six-panel comic strip. A person with yellow hair reads a book and cries while looking at images of another person, who is shown in a bikini. The dialogue includes phrases such as “I wish I was beautiful...” and “I love you just the way you are...”.
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Nathan Cowdry: Western Voyeur

A comic strip featuring a person with long blonde hair and a small pink winged creature. They discover a large, injured blue animal lying on a dark road. The person asks “What is that? Is it dead?” while the creature replies “It’s a badger... there’s nothing we can do for him now”. In the final panels, the creature suggests getting back in the car or reversing over the animal “a couple of times”.
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Nathan Cowdry: Western Voyeur

A comic strip featuring a person with blonde braids driving a car and a small, pink, pig-like creature in the passenger seat. The driver falls asleep at the wheel, prompting the creature to shout, “Wake up Porcha”. In the final panel, the driver wakes up abruptly and shouts back at the creature.
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Nathan Cowdry: Western Voyeur

An illustration of a white bull terrier looking up at a person’s legs. The dog has its mouth open in a bark, indicated by a small speech bubble that reads “BARK!”. Above them, the word “dogson” is written in a bubbly, pink script. A caption at the bottom reads “THE BULL TERRIER WITH A BIG HEART AND A MILD TEMPERAMENT”.
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A comic strip featuring a white Bull Terrier and a small pink creature. The dog barks and growls while a person with blonde hair says, “I hate this dog. Let’s take it back to the kennels.”
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Nathan Cowdry: Western Voyeur

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www.ncowdry.co.uk
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About the Author

Billie Muraben

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Billie studied illustration at Camberwell College of Art before completing an MA in Visual Communication at the Royal College of Art. She joined It’s Nice That as a Freelance Editorial Assistant back in January 2015 and continues to work with us on a freelance basis.

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