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We're chatting about the comics you liked as a little kiddo this week! The topic was inspired by a thread in the DD forums. This is always a fun topic and I always have to mention Asterix because it was so amazing. This week Tantz had to bow out but we have Gunwallace to replace her, and Banes is back! Gunwallace is a fellow Antipodean, that means he and I share many of the same cultural touch stones, particularity the comic Footrot Flats. (Tantz is still on the Patreon only video)
Footrot Flats is a newspaper comic by the New Zealand creator Murry Ball. It's about a working sheepdog called “Dog” who lives on a farm owned by Wal, a single guy who works hard, drinks beer, and loves rugby. It's a comic that Australians saw as very “Australian” because it played into the mythological rural, working class image that we invented for ourselves, New Zealanders who have a similar history and felt the same, hence the shared popularity of this amazing very classically Kiwi comic from New Zealand.
Footroot flats comics be seen in many great collected works as well as an awesome animated film from the 1980s called “Footrot flats: The Dog's tale”. I fondly remember it for the hit theme song sung by New Zealand singer Dave Dobbin, “Slice of Heaven” which is one of my favourite ever songs. Gunwallace has even designed a cocktail inspired by it. I will list the recipe here and I urge to try it while listening to that song!
Cocktail recipe!
Slice of Heaven
— Dave Dobbyn & Herbs
50 ml Beerenburg jenever herbal gin
20 ml Drambuie
2 dashes bitters
Half-fill an Old Fashioned Glass with ice, pour ingredients into glass.
Add dashes of bitters. Stir gently. Garnish with a slice of orange.
We used : Sonnema Berenburg, Drambuie, Peychaud’s Bitters
-New Zealand Music Cocktails by David Tulloch & Michael
Sutorius
The comics you enjoyed as a kid are determined by what was available to you at the time. For me what I recall most are the newspaper strips like Modesty Blaise, Mandrake the Magician, Wizard of Id, Crock, B.C., Footrot Flats, Hagar the Horrible, Peanuts, Blondie, Denis the Menace (British version), Andy Cap, Torkan,The Far Side, Garfield… The comics I actually bought were the Commando war comics, Scrooge McDuck, Mad Magazine, and The Phantom, which was very popular in British Commonwealth countries. I loved Asterix but would only get those from the library. Looking back a lot of those comics were quite influential on my art style and even my outlook on the world in some cases. My character Pinky has a LOT of modesty Blaise in her look, and I can see that I thought of myself as Torkan!
Which comics did YOU like as a kid, which can you say STILL influence you now?
This week Gunwallace has given us a theme inspired by Snake in the Office - Chaotic, sexy, rocking, snake charming to layers of groovy electric guitar and a piano tiptoeing around with a charming little tune tying it all together like a fine Persian rug! A sinuous synth clarinet impersonates a snake charming flute while giving us a lovely 1920s feel.
Topics and shownotes
Links
Slice of Heaven, theme song to Footrot Flats https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0pWejAnLUQ
Forum Thread - What comics did you grow up on? - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/forum/topic/179874/
Featured comic:
Rebellion the monster inside us - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2025/jan/28/featured-comic-rebellion-the-monster-inside-us/
Featured music:
Snake in the Office - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Snake_in_the_office/ - by Athorist, rated T.
Special thanks to:
Gunwallace - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/Gunwallace/
Ozoneocean - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/ozoneocean
Banes - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/Banes/
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Quackcast 725 - Your fave comics as a kid
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Feb. 4, 2025
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Ozoneocean at 4:06PM, Feb. 6, 2025
Very enlightening! Haha, as to Germans and humour- I've been doing German on Duolingo for 6 years now and that's full of German jokes LOL! ^_^
PaulEberhardt at 10:17PM, Feb. 5, 2025
@Oz: How many Germans does it take to screw in a lightbulb? - One, because we have no sense of humour whatsoever. 😆 It does rub some people the wrong way, but it's really all in good fun, and if you consider that it was written right at a peculiar time when French-German relations slowly started to change from arch enemies to best EU buddies, a notion not too popular with many French who rather wanted to forget about being either resistance members or collaborators, and with Goscinny's Jewish family background on top, we actually get off pretty well. Those guys just had a knack of the lost art of friendly teasing. In this case, they did an incredibly tightrope walk, which ended up with a very spot-on observation of Germany's historic "Sonderweg" that makes it very re-readable and fun for me as a grown-up. Back as a kid I just loved the characters (all of them) and had a blast, too. In fact, it was this comic that taught me to read blackletter fonts - lol.
Ozoneocean at 4:09PM, Feb. 5, 2025
@PaulEberhardt - Wow, that's still going? O_O What do you think f the Germans in Asterix BTW? Haha! I think Asterix is always something where you identify with Asterix and Obelix first regardless and if your own people are in it you identify with them second LOL!
Ozoneocean at 4:07PM, Feb. 5, 2025
@synwells - Handmedowns are a good way to start! That's how I started with all of mine haha! You were lucky with Conan!
PaulEberhardt at 7:35AM, Feb. 5, 2025
Asterix! Definitely Asterix. However, Lucky Luke comes close. The newest episode of Lucky Luke, which I bought recently, is hilarious front to back - and I'm saying that as part of the group that gets sent up this time - and has some really amazing artwork. Morris, the original creator has long passed away, but he had seen to finding a worthy successor.
synwells at 12:23AM, Feb. 5, 2025
I grew up with hand me downs from my dad. He had a real mix of stuff. I grew up on classic 70s Marvel, Garfield, Conan the barbarian, Beano, Dandy, Andy Capp and a whole bunch of other stuff.
Ozoneocean at 7:18PM, Feb. 4, 2025
@HPK - Archie is a classic! Banes loved the Jughead comics. I read some Archie when I was really little but mainly I loved the cartoon XD
hpkomic at 1:27PM, Feb. 4, 2025
I had a couple of boxes of old Archie books my parents picked up at a yard sale and read that crap out of those as a kid.