Crikey! Have I got a post for you today, tonight (if you’re in foreign to Leeds climbs) – too right! (the rhyme makes better sense if you ignore the previous explanatory bracket). Yes indeed, Mr A. Bove, he of the Gindylow Bright Boy’s Book of Wonder non-fame has added another string to his bow (which should make his violin sound better – boom, boom) and produced the rather fine cartoon that you see below.
Mr Bove refuses to give much away about the origins of the strip, but we have a sneaking suspicion he may once have come across a certain Marvel Comics character of a similar name and used it to express his own rather bitter feelings about the literary world; although this is just a wild stab in the dark.
If you click the image you will see it in all it’s larger than large, flaw-showing glory. Copy it, paste it into Word, email or fax it to your friends, print it out (we recommend a black-and-white printer as for some reason or other the colour version comes out a sort of pinky grey!), stick it up ….. on the wall; whatever you choose to do with it we ask you to enjoy it – please – we really must insist you do.
Mr Bove promises that if his busy day-job, working at the very cutting-edge of Information Literacy allows, he will produce some more strips. We at Gindylow, sincerely hope that the staring-put-the-window, the coughing, the making paper hats out of old feedback forms and the endless eBay buying of plastic tat – eases enough to allow his creative juices full flow. Yes we do!
So I will leave you with the strip, but just before I go, did you hear the one about the minnow, the toilet-attendant and the apple-core? No, neither did I, and I sincerely hope it remains that way.
Tatty ‘bye
Toothsome, Toiling Trevor T. (available for weddings, bar-mitzvahs and summer bookings)
the Ghost Writer #1 - More cinder than sinned against?
