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Beau Peep Notice Board => Outpourings => Topic started by: Roger Kettle on November 12, 2008, 06:57:51 PM
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I seldom comment on other cartoonists' work but I felt today's "George and Lynne" in "The Sun" was worth a mention.
FRAME ONE: The skimpily dressed Lynne answers the door where a middle-aged man is standing.
Lynne: Yes?
Man: I'm your local fireworks salesman.
FRAME TWO: The man is now inside and has opened his briefcase to reveal some fireworks.
Man: Can I interest you in a few of my BANGERS?
Lynne: Fraid not.
FRAME THREE: The man is now seated at the dining room table, helping himself to some sausages from a plate in front of him. Lynne stands over him.
Man: WOW!
Lynne: But I can see YOU'RE interested in MY bangers!
Hmmm.
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I seldom comment on other cartoonists' work but I felt today's "George and Lynne" in "The Sun" was worth a mention...
The clues are there, Roger.
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I thought bangers had been outlawed.
Sorry, Roger - it's simply not credible that a scantily-clad woman, answering the door to a total stranger, (who happens to be a mobile firework salesman), for whom she feels compelled to freely fry sausages, should have the option of obtaining bangers in some way.
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It's just such a weird strip and I'm trying to look at it from a writing point of view. You've decided to do a gag about the word "bangers"...you introduce that well-known, everyday visitor, the "local fireworks salesman"...you have him helping himself to some sausages that were, apparently, sitting on the table...you, then...nope, sorry...can't work out the thought process involved here at all.
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You've never arrived at Desperation Point on your chosen career path yet then, Roger?
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Actually, that should have been a full stop at the end of my last post.
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Maybe she's a prostitute and he's paying for the sausages as a token for other services. Being a local firework salesman might just be a front. Quite logical really.
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That is what happens when both the cartoonist and the editor are sauced at the same time.
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Salved the Sun from the paper bin, I can see where your coming from Roger, just a weird strip.
Oh and the guy looks like Hitler, the last frame shows George looking startled, God knows why, his wife is almost always in the buff but perhaps the bangers were for his dinner
Never did see the point of this strip unless it's for showing cartoon women with very little clothes on a la Jane in the 1940's.
Also, the cartoon in the Daily Mail "Strip show" this is just a cut n paste job using computer graphic characters that really just ain't funny in the least, I bet the writer blushes when he cashes his cheques......... he should do at least.
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He should have done an Xmas strip:
Man pointing out to a buyer the two cars that he is selling, a porsche (in which is a scantily clad woman) and a clapped-out car decorated with Christmas decorations.
MAN: I guess you like everything about the Porsche.
BUYER: I do indeed.
MAN: And Yule Banger.
BUYER: I will indeed.
I know, it's a bit rushed and contrived.
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I realise that the point of "George and Lynne" was to have the latter in as few clothes as possible but this whole set-up is just mind-bogglingly weird, contrived and unfunny. Maybe the writer was trying to....nope, it's gone again.
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Mince, we posted at the same time so apologies.
But please contact The Sun immediately with that idea. You're in.
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Mince, we posted at the same time so apologies.
09:43:07 pm and 09:45:22 pm
Hmmmm.
But I forgive you anyway.
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You're in.
Yes, I had very similar sounding thoughts.
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it does take a bit of time to type.
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From memory, George and Lynne was a beautifully drawn strip, but badly written.
Maybe they got hold of an even worse writer, because that example is complete sh*thouse.
On the other hand, (from my experience of dealing with some editors), because of the brain dead nature of the guy to whom one often has to submit one's ideas, one must dumb those ideas down to Moron level. It could be that this writer is actually enjoying himself seeing how far he can descend before the editor says "you know, that idea is crap!"
Who knows, there may be a couple of notches (down) still to go?