Before I go too far...

[Diane CBPFC]

I won't have time to do this project until the holidays but have done one sample page of strips linked from the index page. Please tell me what you think - pixel count too good - pages too slow to load or not good enough?

http://beaupeepbooknumber1.homestead.com/index.html

[The Peepmaster]

I won't have time to do this project until the holidays but have done one sample page of strips linked from the index page. Please tell me what you think - pixel count too good - pages too slow to load or not good enough?

http://beaupeepbooknumber1.homestead.com/index.html

It's looking brilliant, Diane. Did you really re-type all that text on page 2? I hadn't realised that Roger was a "Scottish chronicler"!

I'm very lucky in that I have the original of strip 4. (Now I'm hoping for 3 tickets for Dundee Utd v Celtic - HINT). (I'll pay)

Can't wait to see the site as it develops.

[Diane CBPFC]

I used the OCR program that came with my scanner/printer Nige.

I only had to alter one word, where a small grease spot had confused the computer.

[Mince]

Dianne, it's brilliant. And I do remember those first strips, especially the one with Doris. Thanks. Keep it going.

[Diane CBPFC]

There are 12 pages of strips up so far.

[Mince]

Diane, you're a sweetie!

[Roger Kettle]

You missed the "c" from the word "sanctioned".
I've turned into Mince!

[The Peepmaster]

It's really interesting to see the early strips, and how rapidly the "style" develops. It's sort of "all over the place", butevery now and then you see a strip that isn't a million miles from what you'd see today. There are characters you no longer see - like Eric (in the desert), and the horsies, for example, but you are aware that the strip is developing and finding a format.

It's also commendable that Roger waited all the way until the second strip before getting the "Sheik Rattle & Roll" gag in. : However, I was slightly surprised that the gag in strip 3, "Why me?", was almost immediately repeated in strip 5.

Fascinating stuff.

[Roger Kettle]

The "why me" thing was an early attempt by me to create a running gag. At that stage, I was trying to underline the fact that this was a guy who really shouldn't be in the Legion. When I started writing Beau Peep, I was 24 years old and I didn't have a clue what I was doing. (Cue for "and you do now?" from various quarters). All cartoonists cringe at their early work --and I'm no different-- but there are one or two things which, I think, stand up REASONABLY well. On the whole, though, I find looking at the early books pretty hard going.

[The Peepmaster]

It's a bit late to apologise now, Roger

[The Peepmaster]

Anyway, Roger - everyone has to start somewhere. Without those early strips of yesteryear, we wouldn't have gone on to enjoy such a plethora of brilliant output over many, many, many decades. It's not just the writing that has evolved so wonderfully and magically over those long, countless years. It's the excellence of the artistic skill wielded by the captivating brush of the dependable side-kick that is Andrew Christine. Here we discovered a partnership in the same league as Morecambe and Wise, Lee and Perrins, Foot and Mouth... Without those "Siamese twins" of cartoonery, this world would have been so, so different, and much the poorer for their omission. We can only thank the Daily Star for the regular injection of our B.P. "fuel" of wit, for making our mornings much the brighter, and for putting a smile onto the faces of a nation, faces, many of which would otherwise have projected only gloom. Thank you for those many, many years of fun. Years of fun that evolved into decades of rich pleasure.

Thank you, Roger...

Thank you, Andrew...

Thank you, Mince.

[peter]

Anyway, Roger - everyone has to start somewhere. Without those early strips of yesteryear, we wouldn't have gone on to enjoy such a plethora of brilliant output over many, many, many decades. It's not just the writing that has evolved so wonderfully and magically over those long, countless years. It's the excellence of the artistic skill wielded by the captivating brush of the dependable side-kick that is Andrew Christine. Here we discovered a partnership in the same league as Morecambe and Wise, Lee and Perrins, Foot and Mouth... Without those "Siamese twins" of cartoonery, this world would have been so, so different, and much the poorer for their omission. We can only thank the Daily Star for the regular injection of our B.P. "fuel" of wit, for making our mornings much the brighter, and for putting a smile onto the faces of a nation, faces, many of which would otherwise have projected only gloom. Thank you for those many, many years of fun. Years of fun that evolved into decades of rich pleasure.

Thank you, Roger...

Thank you, Andrew...

Thank you, Mince.

Whats he after Roger?

[The Peepmaster]

Anyway, Roger - everyone has to start somewhere. Without those early strips of yesteryear, we wouldn't have gone on to enjoy such a plethora of brilliant output over many, many, many decades. It's not just the writing that has evolved so wonderfully and magically over those long, countless years. It's the excellence of the artistic skill wielded by the captivating brush of the dependable side-kick that is Andrew Christine. Here we discovered a partnership in the same league as Morecambe and Wise, Lee and Perrins, Foot and Mouth... Without those "Siamese twins" of cartoonery, this world would have been so, so different, and much the poorer for their omission. We can only thank the Daily Star for the regular injection of our B.P. "fuel" of wit, for making our mornings much the brighter, and for putting a smile onto the faces of a nation, faces, many of which would otherwise have projected only gloom. Thank you for those many, many years of fun. Years of fun that evolved into decades of rich pleasure.

Thank you, Roger...

Thank you, Andrew...

Thank you, Mince.

Whats he after Roger?

? "He" is Andrew. he only draws the damn thing.

[Roger Kettle]

Thank you, Nigel "you're a sarcastic *******" Sutherland!

[Diane CBPFC]

I fixed the 'c' Kettle.

Now, about those shaddow puppet nipples...should I cover them up do you think?  I don't have a licence for porn.