Ella and Monty

For 9 months or so, I lived with 2 dogs, big Monty the German Shepard, and Ella, my mutt.
This shows their comparative sizes.

Cosmo

It's a Cosmo girl.
She's wearing deoderant.
She's got her period.
She's feeling confident.
And feels like going surfing or jet skiing or perhaps even a spot of 10 pin bowling.

Gal

I would like to have this done in mosaic form on my bathroom floor.

And the winner is....

Further down the page I posted two images side by side and asked readers to pick their favorite.
This was it.

More Ella the Dog

Horrible Hairy Hurangutan

I mentioned I'd posted a Basil Fawlty on drawingboard.org.
This is it.

Premonition

It's WOOKIERIFFIC

Live at a Venue Near You

Mr Creosote

More British comedy

Che'?

I posted quite a nice John Cleese as Basil Fawlty on drawingboard.org.
I've continued the thread here with a swift sketch of the downtrodden Manuel.

This One's For You, Mik

For those not in the know, the Goons was a radio comedy show that ran through the late 40's to almost the 60s.
They were enormously influential on many, many British comedians, Monty Python probably being the most obvious example.
The team was made up of Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers and Harry Secombe.
Spike wrote pretty much all of it and it's a rather hard show to describe.
Anarchy is the word that springs to mind.

Embarassed Gargoyle

Weary

Alien Blue Steel

People of Earth, your attention please

Shane MacGowan

I've recently dragged out all my old Pogues CDs.
Shane MacGowan (pictured above) could easily be the ugliest man in the whole world.

Ross Noble

Brilliant comedian from Newcastle, UK.

Mark Latham

Mark Latham left politics in a bit of a huff after loosing the last election.
He claimed it was health issues (which is probably true - he doesn't look very well).
He just published a book in which he lambasts pretty much everyone he's ever worked with, mentored, talked to or walk past.
Sour grapes?
Maybe.
Probably.
All a bit of a shame really, as Latham used to have a bit of a larikin attitude that was easy to warm to, and now he's become a whiner.
I'm not sure if this is a very successful caricature, as it tends to look more like our treasurer Peter Costello (although the two share a certain amount physically in common).

The Meaning of Life - and a comment for Charmaine

This weekend I finally finished my Monty Python DVD collection with their movie The Meaning of Life.
I would like to make some comments about it.
1) For those cartoonist friends of mine who love pirates and have been living in a pond and have never seen the movie, Terry Gilliam directed a short film that preceeds (and then attacks) the main movie.
The movie is called The Crimson Permanent Assurance and is about an old accounting firm who set their building to sail and attack big business.
The crew of the CPA (a joke I have only just understood now that I've typed it out) are all very old men, who arm themselves with makeshift pirate gear - blades from an overhead fan, the fashion a dagger by attaching a receipt spike to a stamp. Their cannons are filing cabinets that fire drawers.
All lovely stuff.
Go watch it if you haven't seen it.
2) All of the Pythons put in stellar performances - Graham Chapman is especially good. Eric Idle does a lovely job in a scene where he plays a silly American woman. Michael Palin plays a range of silly characters in a very silly and entertaining way.
3) In one scene Terry Gilliam plays a Bo Peep character in a slightly husky transvetitey kind of voice. I mention this only because he looks and sounds remarkably like Kirsty Allie. I live in hope that one day he hears of this comment and is appropriately amused.

Comment for Charmaine:
I have a friend from my days at Southern Cross called Jason Blundell, or Airbags as we all know him (he crashed 3 cars in as many weeks when he first started).
I noted once over dinner that he has the kind of fresh faced look that would be perfect if you needed to cast someone in a movie about either of the world wars.
My friend Alex Harris backed this up by suggesting that Bags looked like the entire cast of the Sullivans, which is the comment I figured you'd enjoy.