Prunella is neither especially good, nor especially bad. But the strip itself is a fine example of what you could do with a spirit duplicator (also called a ditto machine). They were inexpensive, they used cleaning fluid (alcohol!) instead of ink, and you could print half a dozen colors in one pass. It took practice, but results were attractive. Not a bad deal for a beginning fan-artist!

I thought you should have a chance to see ditto art, because Icarus Has A Really Bad Week was originally ditto. Then I Xeroxed it over into black-and-white (scanners weren't consumer items back then). It was first drawn when people were getting music from the Beatles, and fashion from Carnaby Street; and I reworked it to de-Carnabize the clothing. I've retconned the storyline, and reworked the text and art to match. That story has had about a third of a century of reworking. I hope The Gaff forgives me for what has happened to his artwork. And if I ever find the original script, it'll be interesting to see what I've done to my story.

Which doesn't have much to say about Prunella. Back in the Sixties, when the Comics Code Authority was much more powerful than it is now, the head thereof was named Mrs. Trulock. I thought it'd be fun to add the existential angst of "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock". And I decided to illustrate her as Mrs. Grundy from the Archie comics. "Mrs. Grundy" was the stereotypical censor-figure from the days of "banned in Boston". The Archie people reworked her as a stiff-necked teacher. And now she's come full circle ...