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Beau Peep Notice Board => Outpourings => Topic started by: Mince on January 16, 2009, 02:36:41 PM
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Is just a couple of pints enough to get you drunk nowadays or are you still the drinking man? And when you drink, do you talk about who the funniest cartoonist is? And if so, is it one of the guys on this forum?
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You want him to choose? :o
So you're the guy who cheered all the way through Schindler's List.
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Two pints is about right.
I rarely talk about cartooning. Of course, if anyone in the company asks me a question about it then fair enough but that seldom happens. Cartooning is actually a pretty dull subject to discuss. I sit at a desk and think for a living and that's about it. I don't land planes on the Hudson River, for example. Obviously, there is a lot more shop-talk involved when I'm mixing with other cartoonists but that's a rare event and we usually end up talking about football. As for the FUNNIEST cartoonist on this site, well, that's impossible to say and is completely subjective. Diane is looking good, though!
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Awww shucks. ;D
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Do you see a career change for her Roger?
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At the risk of boring you, maybe I should expand on my previous answer.
Yes, I can talk at length about cartooning but it really is of limited interest to most people. The technical side of scriptwriting, and materials used, is pretty dull. I once fell out with several people on a cartoonists' web site because I stated that "cartooning isn't important". I accept now that what I should have said was that "MY cartooning isn't important". What I write is MEANT to be trivial. There are no hidden messages and no deep meanings. My aim is to give the readers, hopefully, a brief chuckle. Nothing more. I'd hate for cartooning to go the way of the acting business where people like Kate Winslett start blubbing as though they've saved the planet. What she did was get paid for pretending she was someone else. What I do is write nonsense to the best of my ability and hope some people laugh. Both these things are transient and trivial and that's the way they SHOULD be. Don't analyse what I do! It's trite garbage---just as I intended!
Um...that's it.
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I guess that the big white space in the above post happens when you go for a coffee in the middle of posting. Sorry.
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I guess that the big white space in the above post happens when you go for a coffee in the middle of posting. Sorry.
Happens to me all the time ;D
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There are no hidden messages and no deep meanings.
Well, perhaps none that you can see.
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You've spotted that "Dennis" is "sinned" backwards---a comment on what mankind has done. You've also spotted that "Beau" backwards is "UAEB", an acronym for "Unidentified Alien Earth Base". Damn, you're clever.
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Yes, of course, those hidden meanings as well.
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At the risk of boring you, maybe I should expand on my previous answer.
Yes, I can talk at length about cartooning but it really is of limited interest to most people. The technical side of scriptwriting, and materials used, is pretty dull. I once fell out with several people on a cartoonists' web site because I stated that "cartooning isn't important". I accept now that what I should have said was that "MY cartooning isn't important". What I write is MEANT to be trivial. There are no hidden messages and no deep meanings. My aim is to give the readers, hopefully, a brief chuckle. Nothing more. I'd hate for cartooning to go the way of the acting business where people like Kate Winslett start blubbing as though they've saved the planet. What she did was get paid for pretending she was someone else. What I do is write nonsense to the best of my ability and hope some people laugh. Both these things are transient and trivial and that's the way they SHOULD be. Don't analyse what I do! It's trite garbage---just as I intended!
Um...that's it.
I have to disagree with about 90% of that, Roger (and even pens and paper are fascinating to some). Laughter-makers are the most important and influential people on the planet, far more so than kings, generals or politicians. People seldom kill each other whilst laughing. God only knows how many lives you've saved.
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At the risk of boring you, maybe I should expand on my previous answer.
Yes, I can talk at length about cartooning but it really is of limited interest to most people. The technical side of scriptwriting, and materials used, is pretty dull. I once fell out with several people on a cartoonists' web site because I stated that "cartooning isn't important". I accept now that what I should have said was that "MY cartooning isn't important". What I write is MEANT to be trivial. There are no hidden messages and no deep meanings. My aim is to give the readers, hopefully, a brief chuckle. Nothing more. I'd hate for cartooning to go the way of the acting business where people like Kate Winslett start blubbing as though they've saved the planet. What she did was get paid for pretending she was someone else. What I do is write nonsense to the best of my ability and hope some people laugh. Both these things are transient and trivial and that's the way they SHOULD be. Don't analyse what I do! It's trite garbage---just as I intended!
Um...that's it.
So you are saying the people who use your strips to help them to decide which horse to bet on are basically screwed?
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I too disagree with Roger. In a world with very few soft spots, cartooning can touch people?s hearts and connect them with humanity. What I like about Roger?s cartoons is that they are never mean spirited, he has such a beautiful view of human kind, quirks and all.
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Diane, your extremely flattering view of my work probably says more about you than me. You're the one who sees all these positive aspects in the strips. I could argue that Beau Peep is about a bunch of idiots and losers, Horace is about a pathetic wimp and Andy Capp is about a lazy, selfish sexist.
The point I'm trying to make is that I hate it when too much "importance" is placed on cartooning (specifically mine). As I said earlier, my work is MEANT to be trivial and I'm delighted to say so.
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Hands off Winslett, kiddo!
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Eric Morecambe said he never discussed humour, the mechanics of it or how a joke was constructed, and he's widely regarded as the best technician in the business - a guy who rehearsed how he was going to rehearse, and practised routines until the red light went on. I think Eric realised he had a gift horse and didn't want to look it in the mouth.
I'm not afraid of inspecting and discussing humour, though it may seem verbose and pretentious. Personally am happy to dissect jokes until the bovine quadrupeds return to their domicile.
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Here's Morecambe and Wise in one of the best sketches they ever did, it included a VERY wooden Elton John, but for Eric it was a tour de force. Elton later admitted that Eric's ad libs were all rehearsed and that Eric rehearsed much more than he did.
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOJ595z9WFc
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I was unfair to Elton. I hadn't seen this for ages, and he turned out quite well.
Sorry for hijacking the thread. Carry on.
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How high were those heels? Elton's taller than Eric in that sketch.