July 9th, 2008
MBLEH boxes and flexographic mischief
As part of my continual drive to limit the amount of stuff I have, I found the last remaining customised MBLEH box and destroyed it.
I used to work in a place where we made flexographic printing plates for cardboard boxes, they are basically just large rubber stamps and we could make them whenever we wanted. We made an A4 stamp of the most disgusting, horrible picture I’ve ever drawn and would stamp courier vans when they called in. It would print a perfect, clean reproduction each time.
Click on the image to see it but be warned, it’s absolutely horrible and I’m absolved of all blame as it was drawn 5 years ago. Definitely not work safe!
That was a great job. I worked there for nearly 5 years and it was there that I started to draw comics seriously. All thanks to Vinny Mc Mullin the boss, who turned a blind eye to my antics providing I lash through the real work. I love that man, it’s all because of him that there is Clamnut Comix.
July 9th, 2008 at 6:48 pm
Couldn’t resist clicking, need to bleach my eyes!!!! That’s sick and not in the good way!
July 9th, 2008 at 8:12 pm
I’m not clicking on one of your links while I’m at work Bob, I’ve learned that lesson…
On a different note, I heard you were designing a poster and logo for Free Irish Comic Day….any truth to that?
July 9th, 2008 at 9:29 pm
Deadly, he sounds like a legend. Man those stamps are cool, you cloud really stick it to Banksey with that shit! You got any pictures of the vans you stung?!
July 9th, 2008 at 9:59 pm
Haha jesus, thats some drawing
July 9th, 2008 at 10:05 pm
good sweet jesus,why did I click that link?!
I feel so unclean…
July 9th, 2008 at 10:07 pm
Shit, yeah somehow it’s fallen to me to do the poster and all. Will talk to Rob this week.
Yeah we never got anymore sophisticated than stamping the odd van or car, have no pics, it was 6 or 7 years ago, before there were cameras. It was great for stamping documents like doctors letters etc.
Click the link Kyle you pussy, you’ve probably seen it before anyway
July 9th, 2008 at 10:24 pm
Ahhhhhh the sweet taste of work Mischieve….
July 9th, 2008 at 10:57 pm
Bob, you’ve obviously warped my fragile little mind…I clicked on the link and my first reaction was “oh, it’s just that?”. I remember it horrifying me back when I first saw it in whichever issue of Mbleh! you put it in though.
In these internet-enabled days it takes things like footage of japanese girls firing eels from their bottoms to make me feel unwell. Although I did see a picture the other day of some dude sticking his lad into the exhaust pipe of a car that was kind of worrying…(You can only hope the car wasn’t running at the time, or it would’ve been a serious case of wrinkly hot dog)
July 9th, 2008 at 11:43 pm
oh and bob,are you headin to that Gazebo launch tonight?
July 9th, 2008 at 11:59 pm
remember when rotten.com was the business? I am completely turned off by gore and sick stuff these days but as a young metal head I loved it. The net is dangerous lads, it really is. I don’t download flarn anymore.
Yep I’ll be going tonight with a few of my crew
July 10th, 2008 at 12:30 am
your crew? you have a crew?
Now I have this image of bob flanked by some sort of entourage of people - is there someone to make your hair look extra gay, someone to get all the right collection of stains on your clothes and so on?
July 10th, 2008 at 12:32 am
Ah, rotten.com. There was also goregallery.com which prided itself on obtaining police photographs of celebrity suicides (I remembering being sent a photo of the ex-guitarist/bassist from Pennywise who killed himself and wondering why I, as a fan of the band, was supposed to want to see this picture). I’m sure it’s broken us all in some way, but on the other hand I maybe some of us were broken to begin with. You certainly were, Bob, ya fuckin’ weirdo.
July 10th, 2008 at 5:05 pm
Yeah the Clam Crew. Secret Handshake and all; everyone puts their hands on my sack and shakes it. And I dont need other people to make me look gay, I’m doing that one fine by myself. Here do you know I have Hilfiger jeans? Gay or what.
Yeah the internet is silly. Imagine what attitude to sex a 16 year old has these days. Our generation is the only one to really appreciate the net
July 11th, 2008 at 3:47 pm
“Our generation is the only one to really appreciate the net.” I always think that too - we`re young enough to be able to use and enjoy every aspect of it, while old enough to remember how shit life was before it.
Travel agents and the Yellow Pages was our internet. Let your fingers do the walking? Fuck off.
July 11th, 2008 at 8:46 pm
Well, there goes my lunch. Thanks Bob.
July 12th, 2008 at 12:19 am
re: 16 year old attitudes to sex
Man, if 16 year olds form their attitudes to sex based on what they see on the web, they’ll be stuck somewhere between thinking rape is pretty much acceptable and expecting girls to put up with being treated like a cross between a sexual colander and a toilet (to quote Tom Sharpe). And that’s before you add eels flying out of the bottom to the mix, unless you’ve had some pretty adventurous trips to the toilet recently…
July 12th, 2008 at 7:46 am
ahh I think it`s unfair to say every teenager who uses the internet thinks that japanese women fire fish out of their holes on a daily basis.
I use the computer as a tool for drawing and shit I can`t do without a computer and talk to mates and look at blogs and the like.
And I haven`t come across too much in your face references to sex on the kind of shit I look at on the net but I can`t watch the telly for an hour without seeing a bit o` tit on an ad for a hair conditioner or whatever.