Archive for January 19th, 2009

Standing on the shoulders of giants

Monday, January 19th, 2009

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The inimitable Van Reid pointed this one out to me.  Patrick McDonnell is known for the way he salutes cartoonists he respects and admires.  This Mutts Christmas strip from 2007, albeit wonderfully zen in its own right, turns out to be nothing less than a graphical quotation and hommage to a similar Gasoline Alley Christmas strip by Frank King from 1930.  

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Somebody should do a index of these things.

(Mutts © 2009 Patrick McDonnell.  Gasoline Alley © 2009 Universal Press Syndicate.  And thanks again to Van Reid)

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It’s The Eraser !

Monday, January 19th, 2009

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From Wanderingbert’s excellent Batman Villains Project, it’s that most improbable, postmodern and simply silly villain ever, the Eraser.  Whooooo !

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Tony Hart passes away

Monday, January 19th, 2009

 

Joe announces the death of Tony Hart.  At first, the foto didn’t ring a bell, but then I read, “Viewers’ Gallery”, and I thought, Vision On !

This must have been the first programme I ever watched in English without subtitles, and since they all talked so slowly, and showed what they were talking about, we actually understood what they were saying…

Incidentally, this finally solved the riddle that’s been bugging me all weekend, namely, what the tune was that Chris Moyles constantly played last week – it was The Burbles !

Thanks, Tony.

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