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peter

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« on: March 23, 2008, 11:04:07 AM »
who is Stanley McMurty

Offline The Peepmaster

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« Reply #1 on: March 23, 2008, 11:50:35 AM »
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...
Nostalgia is not what it used to be. 😟

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Re: cartoonist
« Reply #2 on: March 23, 2008, 12:16:42 PM »
That's why i ask as i saw that he was on desert isle disc

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« Reply #3 on: March 23, 2008, 06:35:19 PM »
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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« Reply #4 on: March 23, 2008, 07:24:42 PM »
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.   :-\
Nostalgia is not what it used to be. 😟

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« Reply #5 on: March 24, 2008, 04:45:58 PM »
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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« Reply #6 on: March 24, 2008, 08:06:18 PM »
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!
I apologise, in advance.

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« Reply #7 on: March 24, 2008, 08:13:19 PM »
Don't do youself down, Steve (you've been outed!)---you're up there.

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« Reply #8 on: March 24, 2008, 09:33:07 PM »
Don't do youself down, Steve (you've been outed!)---you're up there.

He's not taken up window-cleaning again, has he?
Nostalgia is not what it used to be. 😟

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« Reply #9 on: March 24, 2008, 09:45:01 PM »
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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« Reply #10 on: March 24, 2008, 11:31:15 PM »
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.
I apologise, in advance.