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Beau Peep Notice Board => Just a Fort => Topic started by: Rob Baker on October 11, 2016, 06:52:42 PM
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I’m probably just being a bit thick (don’t all agree at once!) but I just don’t get what the Nomad’s doing (scratching?) in the last frame of strip 4, of this series from last week.
So with profuse apologies to Roger, can anyone explain that particular gag to me?
(http://i283.photobucket.com/albums/kk284/nomad2010/strips/beau%20peep%2003-10-16%20parta_zps0r6sjzyr.jpg) (http://s283.photobucket.com/user/nomad2010/media/strips/beau%20peep%2003-10-16%20parta_zps0r6sjzyr.jpg.html)
(http://i283.photobucket.com/albums/kk284/nomad2010/strips/beau%20peep%2003-10-16%20partb_zpsks3oosff.jpg) (http://s283.photobucket.com/user/nomad2010/media/strips/beau%20peep%2003-10-16%20partb_zpsks3oosff.jpg.html)
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I think he may be searching in vain for some LPs (that's CDs to you youngsters out there), or even something to play them on? Other than that, I admit, I'm stumped. Which is almost certainly a first for me where Kettle & Christine are concerned.
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It's only a guess but is he playing "armpit music" perhaps? [Come on...we've all done it!]
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My armpit isn't in the middle of my chest, but yes...guilty! :-[
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The reason that you're stumped is that, for some inexplicable reason, the Star managed to print the strip without the last speech balloon. The Nomad SHOULD be saying "Hang on, I can't find my kazoo."
I was a tad annoyed.
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I thought it was maybe an early Christmas competition.....fill in the blank.
Probably been asked hundreds of times before, but if this was last week, when was it submitted?
How far in front do you have to work?
Don't ask, don't get! ;)
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Egg, we're roughly six weeks ahead of publication in the Star. As the writer, I also try to be at least a couple of weeks ahead of Andrew, just in case of personal emergencies/holidays/times when I simply can't be arsed to work.
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........times when I simply can't be arsed to work.
Refreshingly honest.
My employers, the Dutch, don't get the concept! :P
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The reason that you're stumped is that, for some inexplicable reason, the Star managed to print the strip without the last speech balloon. The Nomad SHOULD be saying "Hang on, I can't find my kazoo."
I was a tad annoyed.
How is that even possible, Roger? Doesn't Andrew draw the speech bubbles as an integral part of the artwork these days, as he certainly used to? If so, for the entire balloon, text and arrow to disappear and the frame line to be there would mean it had to be physically painted out. Or has Andrew now gone over to the Dark Side of digital cartooning, where the speech bubbles are saved on a separate layer....but even then, it would be unusual for them all to be on different layers rather than one for them all...very odd!
Don't worry - I'm not expecting you to actually know the answer, Roger, this being a highly technical conundrum. Just thinking aloud... ???
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Kazoo! ;D ;D ;D
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Steve, I have no idea how this happened and it makes no sense to me. I'm assured by Andrew that the final balloon was in place and, like you, I can't understand why the blue background is complete----there should have been some kind of sign of the missing punchline.
It's weird, man.
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Yes, there's that too. I presume they're coloured by the newspaper staff? Which would indicate that the bubble was missing before any colour was added. Hmmmm - has Mr Christine been interrogated yet...?
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Is it unique and therefore going to be worth thousands in years to come!
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The reason that you're stumped is that, for some inexplicable reason, the Star managed to print the strip without the last speech balloon. The Nomad SHOULD be saying "Hang on, I can't find my kazoo."
I was a tad annoyed.
Cheers Roger - good one, makes absolute sense now (y) Though I did like Red's suggestion about armpit noises too!
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Is it unique and therefore going to be worth thousands in years to come!
OK, who's going to be first to make a connection about Roger's gags and valuable antiques ? ;D
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Watch it, Baker!
Andrew sent me a copy of the strips he emailed to the Star and everything was in place---including the missing balloon. I really don't understand how this happened.
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Sounds like an enigma worthy of scrutiny by the cream of Fleet Street's investigative journalists. Shall I send someone from The Sun over?
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Sounds like an enigma worthy of scrutiny by the cream of Fleet Street's investigative journalists. Shall I send someone from The Sun over?
;D ;D ;D
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Is it unique and therefore going to be worth thousands in years to come!
OK, who's going to be first to make a connection about Roger's gags and valuable antiques ? ;D
Arthur Negus?
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OK, who's going to be first to make a connection about Roger's gags and valuable antiques ? ;D
If I remember rightly, someone had a Beau Peep gag valued on the Antiques Roadshow, and was told it was early sixteenth century and possibly one of a pair. The expert continued by saying that Roger was pushing back the boundaries of wit and reaching new, unexplored areas of comedy - in other words, he was getting beyond a joke.
(*coat*)
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Someone bought a joke book at the service station on the way home from the airport, didn't they?!
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Someone bought a joke book at the service station on the way home from the airport, didn't they?!
Hope they kept the receipt.
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Actually, it's on loan from Donald.
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What is? The receipt?
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No, the service station. Try to keep up.
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You have a receipt for a service station?
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No, Arthur Negus has the receipt.
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Didn't Arthur Negus have the Beau Peep joke?
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Steve, I have no idea how this happened and it makes no sense to me. I'm assured by Andrew that the final balloon was in place and, like you, I can't understand why the blue background is complete----there should have been some kind of sign of the missing punchline.
It's weird, man.
It would be weird if the kazoo showed up in someone else's cartoon. Probably the one directly beneath Beau Peep if it falls out of the Nomad's vest.
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You have the mind of a cartoonist, Diane. You may not take that as a compliment, but it is untended as one.
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You may not take that as a compliment, but it is untended as one.
untended?
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Absolutely. There's no-one near it.
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It's always good to have your compliments out on their own.
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Absolutely. There's no-one near it.
;D ;D ;D