Not so much a comic, but a whimsical response to the masterful music and heady ambience of a jazz gig. Frank Harrison (keyboard) and Bobby Wellins (sax) at the Albion Beatnik Bookshop in Oxford.
Posts Tagged music
This comic based on an idea by Karen. If she sees you, you’d better be dancing…
[The DJ is a squirrel]
I want to see EVERYBODY DANCING!
Here’s a little doodle I made for a trumpet-playing-friend’s birthday card.
tu-wah-wah-wah-waaah!
The panel they said couldn’t be done. Itchy and Knee as you’ve never seen them before. Don’t miss this thrilling episode of The Family Tayberry.
Itchy and Knee appear as monks in pseudo renaissance / medieval trompe l'oeil room, with a tayberry hunt and annunciatory cherubs blowing trumpets and flutes. Anachronisms abound. Itchy bears the single tayberry on a golden cushion. Knee awaits, with a carving knife and fork to receive the berry. Is Itchy safe?
Next time: The Grand Carving
I’ve no idea if it’s possible to smoothly plié in third. Maybe if you have fuel injection. I just like saying Royal Ballet School of Motoring.
Historical note: Yes, I realise that motor cars no longer look like this.
and up into third...
then smoothly plie
and back for the da capo
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I suppose this comic is nothing new in places where there’s no free, national health service. But in the UK we used to have one, that all of us were proud of (excepting the present government, of course.)
And I don’t usually do political satire. But I did so much want to use the sentence “your illness is important to us.”
Transcript:
999 calling…
RING RING
Thank you for calling NHS Direct PLC Premium-Plus-Extra service…… All of our customer representatives are busy, but we will answer your call as soon as our shareholders allow. Your illness is important to us. Please hold the line…
While you’re waiting, why not take a couple of aspirins?
Did you know that with NHS Direct PLC’s Extra-Super Service you pay for two illnesses and get the third absolutely free?
Get that heart bypass operation you’ve always wanted, on easy terms with NHS Direct PLC…
RING RING
Thank you for calling NHS Direct PLC Premium-Plus-Extra service...
... All of our customer representatives are busy, but we will answer your call as soon as our shareholders allow. Your illness is important to us. Please hold the line...
While you're waiting, why not take a couple of aspirins?
Did you know that with NHS Direct PLC's Extra-Super Service you pay for two illnesses and get the third absolutely free?
Get that heart bypass operation you've always wanted, on easy terms with NHS Direct PLC...
Here’s a doodle I made to go on a poster for a forthcoming concert. We’ll be raising money for Save the Rhino International (again.) The amount of rhino poaching is still increasing — the rhinos may be doomed simply because of an erroneous belief in the healing properties of their horns.
Although the concert we attended on Sunday was in a garden shed, it did in fact provide a grand piano (true story).
Coping with cheap venues no. 14:
when no grand piano is provided
Does anyone ever spare a thought for Mozart’s housekeeper?
EDIT: I notice there has been some confusion over this awful pun. This link should help.
For those mystified by the appointment at 3pm, see this incredible animated short.
10am Miss Hood (NB. And /GRANDMA/!)
12noon Pig Family - architectural survey, structural soundness?
3 Peter (Pyotr?) - also side dishes of duck, bird, cat? grandpa?
Wolfie felt that at long last his luck was turning. Today was going to be a fabulous day.