The Beano

[Sandy Buttcheeks]

Of course we all know you write Beau Peep, Roger, and so naturally we hold you in high esteem here on the Beau Peep website. Then it transpires that Malc worked on the Danger Mouse cartoon. Now I find out that a guy going by the name "Tarquin Thunderthighs III" didn't just draw but actually invented ****ing BANANAMAN?

I'm with you, Jack.   ****ing BANANAMAN'S Daddy !!  This site rocks.

May some of your combined genius (genii?) dribble over us uncreative peasants and mark us with the scent of the great.

We are not worthy.

 

[Roger Kettle]

Not only did Tarquin create Bananaman, he also supports St. Johnstone. The man is too cool for words.

[Diane CBPFC]

Sadly, I don't know these cartoons - but TTIII does have proof that he was a cute little kid. 

[Malc]

Tarks, the animation may have been better if Cosgrove Hall had done it, but the scriptwriting would definitely have been better, especially if Brian Trueman had been involved. It was the writing wot made DM, the animation was rudimentary, at best, with many of the crew having taught themselves, from books!

 I was one of the first "trained" animators to work on DM, and my animation course only existed as part of a graphic design course which set up its animation facility the year before I joined. On top of that, it had almost no equipment, so you can see those were very early days in British TV animation.

[Sandy Buttcheeks]

Surely though, it's about the package? There's certainly a world of difference between then and now, but the animation "fitted" perfectly with everything else. Both were simply just quality entertainment. Being a child *ahem* of that time, I loved both DM and Bananaman, and they were compulsive viewing in the household. Old computer games, where the graphics were, em...basic, to say the least, still get played today because they had that "hook" that grabbed you. Similarly, both DM and Bananaman had a "hook". Was it animation? Script? Voices? Don't know. I just know they were fantastic, and I loved every minute of them.

PS. What about the animation technique of my other old fav...Rhubarb and Custard?

 

[Sandy Buttcheeks]

Aw Jeeeez.

Now I've got the Rhubarb and Custard theme tune in my head.   

[The Peepmaster]

I went to the same art college as Bob Godfrey, who created Roobarb and Custard.

[Sandy Buttcheeks]

I went to the same art college as Bob Godfrey, who created Roobarb and Custard.

Aw for f*** sake.

Am I the only pleb on this board? 

[The Peepmaster]

I went to the same art college as Bob Godfrey, who created Roobarb and Custard.

Aw for f*** sake.

Am I the only pleb on this board? 

Anagram time: SYE

[Sandy Buttcheeks]

I went to the same art college as Bob Godfrey, who created Roobarb and Custard.

Aw for f*** sake.

Am I the only pleb on this board? 

Anagram time: SYE

Thank dog I'm exdyxslic, I thought that said yes.

[Tarquin Thunderthighs lll]

Tarks, the animation may have been better if Cosgrove Hall had done it, but the scriptwriting would definitely have been better, especially if Brian Trueman had been involved. It was the writing wot made DM, the animation was rudimentary, at best, with many of the crew having taught themselves, from books!

 I was one of the first "trained" animators to work on DM, and my animation course only existed as part of a graphic design course which set up its animation facility the year before I joined. On top of that, it had almost no equipment, so you can see those were very early days in British TV animation.

I can't recall anything Cosgrove Hall produced that was less than excellent, Malky - all the  more remarkable given what you say.

I won't argue with you about the Bananaman scripting. It was a bone of contention at the time, with rumours that Thomsons were paying £1,000 a script to the animation company for some guy to 'write' the stuff, often cobbling together (badly) stories that I'd written for the comic, taking out any bits that would have been 'challenging' to animate. I'd have loved to have been given the chance to do the writing, and considering that the comic page rate for a script back then was about £4.50 (no, I'm not underplaying it), I'd have been very happy to do it for considerably less than a grand. Not a chance!

[Diamond Lil]

Aw for f*** sake.

Am I the only pleb on this board? 
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No

[Sandy Buttcheeks]

Aw for f*** sake.

Am I the only pleb on this board? 

No
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Woohoo.

Altogether now....Sweeeeeeeeet Caaaaaaaaaaaaroliiiiiiiiiiiiiiine     doo doo doo     

[Diamond Lil]

Sandy, you made my day!

[Sandy Buttcheeks]

Admit it...it was the attention to detail in the "doo doo doo's", wasn't it?