River and Petal

River and Petal was a short series of comics based on the Creatures 2 Norns by Cyberlife/Creature Labs art director Colin Swinbourne. They were distributed as part of the Creatures Newsletter in the period June 1997 - February 1998.

River and Petal: The Apple Incident (June 1997)






Egg Fashion: Petal learns how to keep dry (July 1997)










River and Petal in the Garden (October 1997)








River and Petal Go Sailing (November 1997?)




Note by GreenReaper: This is incomplete - there were four images in the newsletter. Anybody got the other two?

River and Petal Christmas Special (December 1997)




River and Petal: When Hairy Met Sally (February 1998)


(also known as The Dangers of Sending a Valentine's Card to the Wrong Address)

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Tribute
Over a decade later, Officer 1BDI created a tribute wallpaper to River and Petal (and also to the Flying Lemon bug) for CCSF 2009.