MAIR CARTOONS

"I'M YOUR NEW PRISON VISITOR,WHAT YOU IN FOR?"

 

 

 

 

 

 

I'M ONE OF THE DISNEY SEVEN, WE WUZ FRAMED!"

 

 

 

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SOME MORE CARTOONS

MARTIN LUTHER KING Jnr.

AUG. 1963 , 50 years ago.  "We cannot walk alone
                                               and as we walk,we
                                                must make the pledge
                                                 that we shall always
                                                 march ahead.
                                                 We cannot turn back
                                                 I HAVE A DREAM.

            For the life of me I cannot remember what this was all about!

EAGLESEA

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CARTOONS,

CARTOONS ,IN THE BEGINNING.

 

                                       

A few weeks ago whilst looking for

something in the loft I came across a couple of folders. I had not looked at the contents for a very long time. Cartoons,some of them finished,most in the process, or just ideas on paper. Some of the cartoons made me laugh so I thought of you. Incidentally,in amongst the papers were a few rejection slips,Ian Hislop, Steve Way, and Michael Heath to mention just a few, thanks guys! What I'm now going to do is put some of the cartoons on my blog. It shouldn't take you very long to work out when they were drawn. You will have guessed by now that I am not very au fait with the machinations of  my camera or my laptop, but I shall persevere and hope to get there in the end.As I said before, I never had any of my cartoons published, I was probably ahead of my time.

 

 

 

I think I would like to come back as a penis

Dr WHO ' DO YOU THINK YER LOOKIN IT YA GIT?

Peter Capaldi, the Glasgow born thespian was very recently unveiled as the newish Dr Who.
But, and I do mean but! did he not play the ambiguous Doctor for real in another time phase? I am not sure when I wrote this. There is a valve radio on the mantelpiece, the announcer is reciting the weather forecast for fishermen in the German Bight, Vera Lynne is singing in the background, "blue sky's over the white cliffs of Dover" fast forward ,the radio has disappeared and I am standing outside a police box in London road, Edinburgh, The police box is covered in Festival Fringe posters,Robin Ince, Assembly Rooms, 12.30pm  Twonkeys Blue Cadabra-Free cabaret. Bourke and No Hare, Bristo. bar & kitchen, and many more. The aquamarine sky is scudding past, leaving white clouds hurrying to catch up. Its very warm, so I divest  myself of my jacket and swing it over my shoulder.I'm perusing the posters when suddenly  a  blue door opens and a young lady beckons me inside.I enter,in front of me on the floor  there is, what looks like a train set,on closer inspection it turns out to be , not trains, but trams, correct in every detail,all the streets, buildings, tiny orange men working as hard as hard can be. Just then a city gent in a dark blue pinstriped suit enters stage left and in a Glesca accent says," Fringe Gits!' and kicks a section of the tram track, sending small pieces flying,he laughs,' that will set them back another month at least!" He wears a small mask,just enough to cover his eyes.I know who it is behind the mask but the scene is ambiguously ambivalent and by now,frightened out of my wits, I hurriedly exit the police box.The door closes behind me , I replace my cape and trudge off through the snow wondering if it all had been, the baddest of bad dreams

I have been asked next week where was the police box situated.
I replied two weeks ago," on London Road overlooking Nemo's World (exotic pets).

"We could've been contenders Charlie!"

FRACKING FOR SCOTLAND.

Had a letter published in the Scotsman today, 1st Aug 2013

LORDING IT OVER US. It has been reported that the Chancellor's father-in-law,Lord Howell, has advocated that fracking should be carried out in the "desolate" north-east of England (31 July)
By all accounts his words have caused an outpouring of justifiable rage, prompting criticism that the words he used highlight the Conservatives' "problem with the North.
Nothing new there. In 1904 a Noble lord ,a former agriculture and fisheries minister, wrote: "But keep the Scottish mountains for sport with noblest animals that Britain produces."
     This only goes to show how much esteem , then and now, we in the northern parts of Britain are held in by our Southern betters!

This add-on is from the 3rd.June 1913. House Of Commons. Oral Answers.
Midlothian County Council .
Major Hope, asked the Secretary for Scotland whether he has received a letter from the Midlothian County Council requesting that in future the title "county of Midlothian" may be used by all Government Departments in connection with all local government affairs pertaining to the county; and whether,especially as confusion in business has sometimes been caused by different Government Departments using the different names county of Midlothian and county of Edinburgh, he can see his way to grant this request of the local authority chiefly concerned?
Mr. McKinnon Wood: The answer to the first part of the question is in the affirmative. I shall be glad to communicate the wish of the county council to other Government Departments and so far as possible to give effect to it in the Scottish Office. I must, however, point out that in some cases the county is described as Edinburgh or Edinburghshire in Acts of Parliament, and in proceedings under those Acts it may be necessary to adhere to the statuary style.
Major Hope: Would it not be possible by any means to arrange that the county should be known entirely as the county of Midlothian?
Mr McKinnon Wood: It would be possible by amending the Act, but it is a question whether it is worth the expenditure and the time.
Fin.