R.I.P. Ronald Searle
Ronald Searle, born 1920, died on Saturday. He was easily the most influential British cartoonist of the sixties and seventies. Richard Thompson, the mind and master behind “Cul de Sac” describes his style perfect in two sentences:
“His pen could do anything; it went curling and spiraling all over the paper, describing a world that was ugly, bitter, grotesque, hilarious and sometimes, briefly, quite sweet. It made me suddenly aware of how liquid ink is, how it skips and splotches and pools when it hits the paper.”
Nothing to add to this. But I would like to point your attention to a non-cartoon-book of Holy Searle. He was a prisoner of war of the Japanese from February 1942 to August 1945. All this time he managed to sketch and draw and to hide his work from his suppressors. It’s kind of a drawn diary of a young man trying to stay mentally sane in an insane, incredible cruel world.
These drawings proof the genius that was Ronald Searle. And to quote Richard Thompson again: “I’d give my right arm if I could draw like this.” So do I. (I’m lefthanded, too.)
Visit Richard Thompson’s blog here, read today’s ‘Cul de Sac here or read a review of this book written by Irish poet Padraig Rooney here.
And if you want, you can buy “To the Kwai and Back” from Amazon here
Filed under: Las Onomatopeyas de Batman
Batman is popular around the world. Argentina is indeed part of this world and so Batmania is a very detailed homepage worshipping Adam West’s incarnation of the flying rodent. If you know just a little Spanish Batmania is worth the visit. John and Scott Sebring for example captured every sound effect – onomatopoeia – to be seen in the famous tv-show of the sixties. Oh, and they are ordered alphabetically…
Las Onomatopeyas
Everyone poops. So what?
I really like Children’s books. I idolised ‘Where the Wild Things Are’ when I couldn’t really read. But I knew it by heart – word for word. (I am a little sceptical about Spike Jonze making a movie from it. I mean: Who will play the monsters? James Earl Jones? Jack Black? Cheech Marin? John Goodman? Brian Blessed?) So I took a stroll through the halls of Amazon and what did I find? There is a best selling book for children: ‘Everyone poops’. Toilet training was not really a problem with our kids, but I know that it can be very difficult, so this book is supposably worth its money. But the Amazon page selling it is very enlightening too:
Better Together
Buy this book with The Gas We Pass: The Story of Farts by Shinta Cho today!
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There is a poop industry! This is a corner on the market I never have seen. I need to own the movie rights to ‘Once upon a Potty-Girl’ – it will make me rich!
