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Questions for Roger Kettle
« on: January 29, 2007, 04:29:10 PM »
1. How did you and Andrew Christine meet?

2. How did you come up with each of the characters?

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Re: Questions for Roger Kettle
« Reply #1 on: January 29, 2007, 06:45:02 PM »
We met while working at D.C. Thomson in Dundee. I was writing stuff like Beryl The Peril for The Topper and Andrew was a letterer/illustrator in their art department. We became friends and hatched our escape plan into the world of strip cartoons.
Thie second question is a variation of the more usual "Where do you get your ideas from?" and my answer is the same. I sit down and think. There is no magic formula. Some characters work and develop over the years and others fall by the wayside. When I first came up with Beau Peep, I was simply looking for something geographically different and by some weird thought process, ended up in the desert. Then the Foreign Legion. Then some inividuals who shouldn't really be there. I don't really enjoy talking about the process of writing cartoon strips---I don't understand it myself.

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Re: Questions for Roger Kettle
« Reply #2 on: January 29, 2007, 07:11:14 PM »
I don't understand it myself.

Okay, in which order did you think up the characters?

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Re: Questions for Roger Kettle
« Reply #3 on: January 29, 2007, 08:53:20 PM »
Oh, Lord, I spent about half an hour answering this, making all sorts of philosophical points. Then I pressed the wrong key and it all disappeared. I...um...thought the characters up alphabetically.

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Re: Questions for Roger Kettle
« Reply #4 on: January 29, 2007, 09:23:58 PM »
So Dennis came before Beau Peep. Why didn't you call the strip Dennis?

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Re: Questions for Roger Kettle
« Reply #5 on: January 29, 2007, 09:43:19 PM »
Dennis's second name is Pratt. Many years ago, this caused a problem when Quentin Crisp got upset about "The Dennis Pratt" award---something The Daily Star dished out for oustanding stupidity. Dennis Pratt is Quentin Crisp's real name.

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Re: Questions for Roger Kettle
« Reply #6 on: January 29, 2007, 11:38:09 PM »
He changed his name from Dennis Pratt to Quentin Crisp? Now that is comic genius!
I apologise, in advance.

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Re: Questions for Roger Kettle
« Reply #7 on: January 30, 2007, 12:50:28 AM »
Mince,
Dennis begins with D and Beau begins with B, so how do you extrapolate that alphabetically Dennis must have been conceived first?

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Re: Questions for Roger Kettle
« Reply #8 on: January 30, 2007, 12:54:24 AM »
Okay, so I don't know my alphabet. What am I supposed to be? - some kind of English teacher?

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Re: Questions for Roger Kettle
« Reply #9 on: January 30, 2007, 01:35:27 PM »
(In case anyone does not know, I am an English tutor.)

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Re: Questions for Roger Kettle
« Reply #10 on: January 30, 2007, 01:44:02 PM »
Ah...

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Re: Questions for Roger Kettle
« Reply #11 on: January 30, 2007, 02:22:51 PM »
Mince - I'm a dyslexia specialist...

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Re: Questions for Roger Kettle
« Reply #12 on: January 31, 2007, 02:33:46 PM »
Okay, is that really your profession, or are you just offering me help with my alphabet?

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Re: Questions for Roger Kettle
« Reply #13 on: January 31, 2007, 05:44:40 PM »
She's 'avin a larf! Is she 'avin a larf

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Re: Questions for Roger Kettle
« Reply #14 on: January 31, 2007, 05:53:56 PM »
She's 'avin a larf! Is she 'avin a larf

Fyodor, perhaps you know her better. And stop using lime green: it's like reading someone's vomit.