June 20th, 2007
Count Curly Wee
Was talking to Brian last week, bitching and moaning about the hassle of making the Shiznit and that it’s always a surprise to see which stories are hits. ‘Any Bread’ in issue 4 was been a runaway success even though it’s just an old joke retold. Without dumping on the readers I think it’s true that the most straight forward gags go down the best.
We both agree that this one is our favourite yet the least commented on or understood by the kids. It’s a good comic but I think most people have never even heard of the original Count Curly Wee. It’s a SHITE old Black and White 2 panel comic thats been running in the Independent for years. For years I’d glance at it and say ‘Ah…a comic’ and then be left confused and angry with it.
I drew this the first week of discovering the scratchboard tool in Painter 9. Phwoar, nice swooshy ink. Brian squeezed a ton of digs into it too, GAMA, The Slate, Irish Ferries and all. I love this comic. Still haven’t pdf-ed issue 3 so it hasnt been posted online before.
PS. Fuck The Slate. Stop talking about it.
June 20th, 2007 at 9:00 pm
“PS. Fuck The Slate. Stop talking about it.”
- Brilliant.
June 21st, 2007 at 7:55 am
Ah yeah Matt, the Slate is getting a major dissing here soon. I’m sick of people talking about it like it was 100% deadly 100% of the time.
June 22nd, 2007 at 1:20 am
I love the fact that you have added to count curly wee’s internet cache! It was like some sort of horrible joke at the 5 year old comic fan, it’s like flicking to the back of the indo going maybe there’s something funny down there below the Savoy film listings, but no! just a james bond bit and these mumbling rhyming goat fuckers, it’s like the bill hicks about the porn with no sex–dugn dugn dugn, hairy bobbin’ man ass, porn with no sex, daily paper with no cartoons, aaarggghhh…..count curly wee dugn dugn dugn hairy bobbin county curly weey dugn dugn dugn….
June 22nd, 2007 at 1:24 am
p.s. does anyone remember that terrible beano spoof about the jamie bulger murder in the slate, lest we forget, in an era when no one can make good jokes about anything wihtout fear of recrimination, these slate boyos did this, they never revealed their address! if i was doing something I thought was funny I’d want everyone to know, if someone is afraid to reveal their address as a creator, surely something’s wrong?
the end
looking forward to young bobbity bryne’s thoughts on the tabla
June 22nd, 2007 at 9:56 am
count curly wee!! it was always only two or three panals in the national rag so could never understand what was going on, never mind the peotry lesson. this is a major improvement and a great boost for those weirdy old style “comics”.
ps- im so glad i didnt use the phrase old school in my comment.
June 22nd, 2007 at 10:12 am
Ha ha Lorcy Wee, you got me laughing secretly on the job and disguising it as a throat clearing. Yep, Count Curly Wee is the strangest thing and in all seriousness has harmed Irish comics, think about it;3 generations have been exposed to it, sucked in by the illustration then limping off disgusted like someone spet in their ear. And that’s their fisrt experience with comics. Like the Scoutmaster dropping the hand before you get your first bagde.
Yeah…The Slate, my main beef is that they done a legger on the printers without paying them. Cardinal sin. Fuck it, if they did I’m sure they’ve caught up with them cuz everyone know he’s works as the producer for Marianne Finnucane now. Plus the whole ‘everythings shit’ tone of their reviews. Too easy! But I gotsta say there were around 4 consecutive issues that were really good and I pestered them to let me draw something. I’m going to end up as Joe Duffy’s tea boy am’nt I?
June 22nd, 2007 at 3:04 pm
The mere mention ‘Only For A Choccy Biccy’ in issue 4 had me in stitches. I hadn’t even thought of that joke since I was about seven years old, and it all came back. It was especially tasty when qualified with ‘Giddy Schoolyard Classic And Vaguely Racist’…Newry was a dark place in the 80s.
June 24th, 2007 at 5:22 pm
me and darragh will try to get the comics sent to you before too long.its just a bitch deciding what ones are good enuff(but dont worry,theres no rhyming gimp-o-goats)
June 25th, 2007 at 12:21 pm
Ah the old Chocky Bickey joke…I’m not actually doing it as a comic, the teaser is as funny as it gets.
Nice one Luke, mail me for my postal address.
June 25th, 2007 at 5:11 pm
i think darragh still has the address(you haven`t moved again since,have you?) cheers for the mention in `tequila launch and shit`by the way.
June 25th, 2007 at 6:15 pm
nah dude I’ve moved since then. I move every few months to stay one step ahead of the Marmelite Inspecters
September 13th, 2007 at 12:32 pm
Curly Wee may have been ’shite’, but the rhymes in it were much better and cleverer than the dreadful ones in your piss-take.