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Beau Peep Notice Board => Outpourings => Topic started by: peter on March 23, 2008, 11:04:07 AM
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who is Stanley McMurty
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Mac in the Daily Mail. I met him a few years ago at a CCGB meeting. I understand he's on Desert island Discs today. Unfortunately I have to go and pick Lucy up from church...
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That's why i ask as i saw that he was on desert isle disc
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I've spoken to Mac a couple of times and he's a nice really nice guy. I got in touch with him some time ago to try and buy one of his originals as a birthday present for Andrew (who's a huge fan) but he wouldn't hear of taking any money. Instead, he insisted on swapping for a Beau Peep one---which is like exchanging a hundred pound note for a fiver. Maybe, as a fellow Scot, he took pity on me...
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I met him at the CCGB 40th anniversary bash in London a few years ago. I hadn't seen the Daily Mail for a while, but remembered that he'd always, rather romantically, hidden a tiny drawing of his wife's head in each drawing. I mentioned it to him in our conversation.
He brought me up to date and told me they'd split. :-\
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He has always been one of my cartooning heroes, though politically we're not on the same page.
One of the Aussie editorial cartoonists here in Queensland has a couple of Mac originals (he came over to London and toured the papers, speaking to editorialists). I'm dead jealous.
Oh, and Mac often used to put a cartoon of his whole wife (not just her head) in his work. It was always a good game spotting her, because she'd sometrimes be "hidden" - represented as the "photo" in a newspaper as it blew away down the street, for instance-, and other times she'd be a distinctive figure in a crowd.
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I'm a big fan also. I was once asked by the editor of a publication I was working for if I could draw my cartoon like Mac. I spluttered my coffee over his desk before gathering enough composure to reply with, "I wish!"
Marvellous draughtsman!
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Don't do youself down, Steve (you've been outed!)---you're up there.
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Don't do youself down, Steve (you've been outed!)---you're up there.
He's not taken up window-cleaning again, has he?
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Don't do youself down, Steve (you've been outed!)---you're up there.
He's not taken up window-cleaning again, has he?
No, when he said "up there", he meant that Tarquin was "up there" with all the other cartoonists who wished they could draw like Mac.
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No, when he said "up there", he meant that Tarquin was "up there" with all the other cartoonists who wished they could draw like Mac.
In vino veritas, sot.