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At the age of nineteen, having been unceremoniously ejected from a series of private schools across Europe and New England (usually for misdemeanors categorized as ‘disgracing the uniform’), Fenner Jekyll headed south on I-95 in a spontaneously borrowed ambulance, of which the big advantage was space in back for a drinks cabinet and a double bed.
After a four-month trip and many adventures, Fenner arrived penniless in Florida and took a job in the Kingdom of the Mouse which lasted until a visitor's camcorder happened to capture Fenner Jekyll and a fellow cast member behaving in a manner inconsistent with the wholesome family values of the resort. Despite the efforts of innumerable lawyers, a clip still circulating on the Web shows just what it’s possible to achieve in a chipmunk suit.
Fenner Jekyll fled to Paris, and stayed there for several years, working as a caricaturist in the Montmartre district. Eventually a difference of opinion with the Catholic Church forced a move to Amsterdam, and a new career as a sex-shop administrator and freelance writer. Fenner Jekyll’s erotic contributions to the underground lifestyle magazine Puff’n’Stuff came to the attention of an Oscar-winning British actor who commissioned a series of stories in which he got to despoil the lipstick of various glamorous stars from the heyday of Hollywood musicals.
The fee for the stories paid for a leisurely year or two touring Europe - doing things, waking up places, regretting one or two choices but generally having a disgustingly good time. Fenner Jekyll came to rest in London, writing and drawing Blessed Art Thou, the satirical sex’n’horror strip-cartoon featuring Sister Maria Consentua, a rapacious and devout Carmelite nun.
In 2004 Fenner Jekyll returned to the US and traveled a while, spending a lot of time within sight of the Pacific before settling into a rundown old house on an idyllic island off the east coast, within easy reach of the mainland via the Lincoln Tunnel.
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