​Out with the spandex and in with the cargo pants!

I just haven’t been “clicking” with the ol’ purple leggings on Socket-Head of late when I’ve been sketching him, and then two nights ago it finally hit me: cargo pants (well, actually shorts).

It finally provided an anchor to the bottom half of the disaster-prone electrician-slash-plumber’s design, as well as giving him a more plausible outfit. That of a dogsbody fix-it man forced to wear a company-slash-mascot headgear during callouts. ​Hence the unintentional ‘Daria’-esque demeanour plastered across Socket's face.

And, yes, the “lore” (as it is) has moved on a bit since Socket’s first appearance.

I digitally colourised this ballpoint pen sketch from last night this afternoon. The colours where already filling my mind’s eye after I’d put down the pen.

Also, I do know that the anatomy in this sketch is janky. It’s a sketch.


Vincent Cavanagh
8 July 2026

EILEEN ROSALINE O’CONNOR was an Australian Catholic nun and co-founder with Fr Ted McGrath of the Society of Our Lady’s Nurses for the Poor – more colloquially known as the Brown Nurses or just Our Lady’s Nurses – a religious order whose mission was to give free care and nursing to the poor, especially those who had fallen through the cracks of regular systems.

Eileen could not stand or walk for much of her life due to a severe curvature of her spine from having fallen out of her perambulator (pram) at a young age. The extent of her height was 3 feet 9 inches (115 centimetres) from which was given the affectionate nickname of The Little Mother.

She lived most of her life at Coogee, a suburb of Sydney, except for when God healed her enough to go to Rome to obtain approval of her fledgling religious order. Such was her determination, that the rigours of travel did not deter her.

Despite being bedridden most of the time, Eileen was the hub of the order. She co-ordinated much through telephone calls. At the end of the day, she welcomed the Nurses home, and received their confidences. Having been so chronically ill herself, she knew just how much kindness and tenderness were needed in caring for the ill and the elderly, and how important it was to maintain the dignity of anyone they ministered to.

She died at the age of 28 from chronic spinal tuberculosis and exhaustion.


On Friday 16 August 2024, Archbishop of Sydney Anthony Fisher OP officially signed off on the collated Australian documentation of Eileen O’Connor’s life for the Cause of Sainthood. And on Monday 14 October 2024, Archbishop Fisher formally presented the documentation in Rome to Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, Prefect of the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints.


For further information about the life and work of Eileen O’Connor and the story of the Sisters of Our Lady’s Nurse of the Poor, visit the website for the Cause of Eileen’s Canonization here.

And as a clarifier, this step of the Canonization process is seeking for her to be recognized and approved by the Vatican as a Blessed; the step before being named a Saint in the Catholic Church.


Vincent Cavanagh
16 October 2024