Just saw this over on MARK EVANIER's blog - very funny, but contains a bit of swearing. It's PETER SERAFINOWICZ's parody of the two great comedians, LAUREL & HARDY. Check it out.
Saturday, 7 October 2017
YOU CAN'T MAKE A MONKEY OUT OF MICKEY - 'COS HE ALREADY IS ONE...
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| Image copyright D.C. THOMSON & Co., Ltd |
The famous Oor WULLIE from The SUNDAY POST introduces #649 of The TOPPER, wherein MICKEY The MONKEY gets up to his usual antics in order to amuse the readers. Once again, DUDLEY D. WATKINS shows many of today's lesser artists how it's done, with clear, simple storytelling that doesn't induce a headache trying to figure out what's going on. When I acquired this comic many years ago, it was folded in half (like The BEEZER in the previous post), so you'll have to forgive the crease in the middle of the cover, and the rippling shadows resulting from it.
GINGER DOES A BEEZER...
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| Image copyright D.C. THOMSON & Co., Ltd |
Above is the cover of my own copy of The BEEZER #600. If you behave yourselves, I may show further pages from this landmark issue. Look at how easy on the eye DUDLEY D. WATKINS' art is - he made it seem simple. Some of today's newer artists, whose pages are abstract, convoluted and difficult to follow assaults on the senses, could sure do with taking a leaf out of D.D.W.'s work.
I'm almost ashamed of how I used to take this comic - and dozens of others - for granted when I was younger, as I'm sure we all did back in the day. It seemed to us that theses comics had always been around and always would be, but, alas, we now know different, much to our cost, and also that of today's generation of comics readers.
Did you buy Beezer back in the day? What's your abiding memory of this iconic comic? Tell all in the comments section.