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Beau Peep Notice Board => Outpourings => Topic started by: Malc on February 22, 2012, 01:48:08 PM

Title: The Sort Of Thread To Pull Birds On
Post by: Malc on February 22, 2012, 01:48:08 PM

'Ullo doll....So, did you hurt yourself?  When you fell from heaven?

Title: Re: The Sort Of Thread To Pull Birds On
Post by: Bilthehut on February 22, 2012, 03:55:51 PM

"Now I know where I am.  It must be heaven, as you are here."

Title: Re: The Sort Of Thread To Pull Birds On
Post by: The Peepmaster on February 22, 2012, 10:58:31 PM

Hi Babe - i think I can see why you got kicked out of Heaven.

Title: Re: The Sort Of Thread To Pull Birds On
Post by: Malc on February 22, 2012, 11:03:12 PM

"You don't sweat much for a fat bird".

Title: Re: The Sort Of Thread To Pull Birds On
Post by: Diamond Lil on February 23, 2012, 08:00:53 AM

 ;D

Title: Re: The Sort Of Thread To Pull Birds On
Post by: The Peepmaster on February 23, 2012, 06:38:29 PM

Don't fret, Babe - I've seen uglier.

Title: Re: The Sort Of Thread To Pull Birds On
Post by: Diane CBPFC on February 23, 2012, 08:16:47 PM

It is too bad that Roger quit writing Andy Capp - he could have used some of these.

Title: Re: The Sort Of Thread To Pull Birds On
Post by: Roger Kettle on February 23, 2012, 11:10:50 PM

No, I couldn't.

Title: Re: The Sort Of Thread To Pull Birds On
Post by: Malc on February 24, 2012, 12:09:02 AM

....which brings me to a question I was going to ask earlier:
Has the new writer/artist of Andy Capp begun his stint yet? If so, how is he going? Please post honest opinions of the strip under the new regime - EXCEPT for Roger, who of course will be magnanimous and complimentary to a fault, so Roger is OUT of this thread.

Yes, you. OUT.

Title: Re: The Sort Of Thread To Pull Birds On
Post by: Roger Kettle on February 24, 2012, 09:12:26 AM

Before I go, I can tell you that the new team has been in place since around last April.

Title: Re: The Sort Of Thread To Pull Birds On
Post by: The Peepmaster on February 24, 2012, 10:03:07 AM

From the ones I've seen, not too bad. The artist is the same, but I believe there are two writers. Lawrence Goldsmith is a cartoonist in his own right, and has contributed to the Daily Mirror over the years already. (He is actually already employed by them as a sub, or similar, I believe I'm right in saying?)

This is his Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001770603791 (http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001770603791)

He occasionally includes Andy Capp strips...

Title: Re: The Sort Of Thread To Pull Birds On
Post by: Malc on February 24, 2012, 11:39:41 AM

I knew the team had been in PLACE for a while, but there's those interminable time lags where one contributor's stuff runs out and the new guy takes over, then there's the bedding-in process, must give the bloke time to get his eye in, so to speak. I reckon almost a year is enough bedding-in.

Basically I want someone to trash it and say it's a shadow of the great strip now that this new writer is doing it. You're not helping at all, Peeps.

Title: Re: The Sort Of Thread To Pull Birds On
Post by: The Peepmaster on February 24, 2012, 07:58:49 PM

I have immense respect for the previous writer of Andy Capp, and old Kettle-Features was always going to be a hard act to follow, but I have to be fair and say that the new guys don't seem to be doing too bad a job. I had expected a disaster, but that hasn't unfolded.

Title: Re: The Sort Of Thread To Pull Birds On
Post by: Diamond Lil on February 25, 2012, 08:01:42 AM

It's a shadow of the great strip now that this new writer is doing it.

Title: Re: The Sort Of Thread To Pull Birds On
Post by: Malc on February 25, 2012, 04:21:42 PM

Ah, I suspected as much, Lil, but I didn't like to say...