tealin | Cabin Pressure Advent: Rotterdam

I wanted to draw Herc and Carolyn, but the lines I most wanted to illustrate didn't have them together, so you get a nice diptych instead.

1. You simply must have the most awfully lovely super-scrumptious flight.

The voice-off between Roger Allam and Tony Head has to be one of the classic moments in radio comedy. Glorious. And it brings us one of my favourite descriptions, 'like Stephen Fry's favourite uncle' – a lesser writer may have been proud to show off the word 'avuncular' but Mr Finnemore evolves it two or three steps into something even more illustrative and also hilarious. avuncular < Stephen Fry < Stephen Fry's uncle < Stephen Fry's favourite uncle = the epitome of avuncularity. Brilliance.

Herc's design was inspired by one of the crowd characters Shiyoon designed for Frozen, who I had to turn around when this series was airing. I have no idea if he made it into the final movie, but he was a perfect Herc. I deliberately did not look to see if I still had his rotation on file before drawing this, so how close the similarity might be after a few years is anyone's guess.

2. Do you have anything less ... sharky?

A good friend and former landlady is the most wonderfully saintly woman with the most sinister smile, so I tried to do some justice to that with Carolyn. Inspiration also, more obviously, from Bruce the Shark. I attempted this drawing a few months ago and failed miserably so I'm pretty happy it showed up when it needed to.