Youtoobling - IGY to Thriller

Youtoobling is a drunken night time hobby of mine whereby I sit at the computer with headphones on, finding YouTube videos that follow on logically from each other, and Tweet the findings. Here's last night's videothon, in reverse order (read from the bottom up if you want to experience the inebriate's true progress through pop trivia). So, I went to bed after Michael Jackson, and en route a couple of great finds were The Beatles cartoon from the 1906s (great authentic accents), Tori Amos's version of Chas & Dave, and Oasis doing Slade on Top Of The Tops. Enjoy.

# See you next Wednesday Michael Jackson Thriller #youtoobing about 10 hours ago via web

Werewolves Of London Warren Zevon #youtoobling about 10 hours ago via web


London Girls Tori Amos does Chas n Dave #youtoobling about 10 hours ago via web


I don't care if he comes round here. The Sideboard Song Chas & Dave #youtoobling about 10 hours ago via web


That, by the way, was Chas & Dave's legendary Ain't No Pleasing You a sexist classic about 10 hours ago via web


#ifuthinkidontmeanwhatisayanimonlybluffin #ugotanotherthinkcominimtellinuthat4nuffin #youtoobling about 10 hours ago via web


More like it! Heads Hands & Feet (starring Chas & Dave & Albert Lee) Country Boy #youtoobling about 10 hours ago via web


The One Rose, Jerry Lee Lewis Not the Chas Hodges #youtoobling song I was going for... about 10 hours ago via web


The Outlaws Valley Of The Sioux stars Chas Hodges #youtoobling Though I was hoping for... about 10 hours ago via web


Turn That Noise Down Chas n Dave #youtoobling & Chas played bass on..? about 10 hours ago via web


Oasis Come On Feel The Noise (but don't be as good as Slade) #youtoobling about 10 hours ago via web


Slade Cum On Feel The Noize And I don't know why #youtoobling about 10 hours ago via web


Noise Annoys Buzzcocks on Revolver with Peter Cook 1978 #youtoobling about 10 hours ago via web


I Love You You Big Dummy Magazine #youtoobling about 10 hours ago via web


Captain Beefheart Ice Cream For Crow #youtoobling about 10 hours ago via web


Letterman does Beefheart #youtoobling (vague letter connection) about 10 hours ago via web


Please Mr Postman - Beatles (this is the real Beatles btw) #youtoobling #lettersongs @quantick about 10 hours ago via web


RU2 (thank @quantick for this) #youtoobling #lettersongs Heaven help me 4 what I'm propagating here *fingers crossed* about 10 hours ago via web


So how's about F? #youtoobling #lettersongs Cee Lo Green F You RT about 11 hours ago via web


The Box Tops, The Letter My #youtoobling is now about letters #haha

# ABC Look Of Love Ah, I may not be looking for initials at all. Just letters. #youtoobling about 11 hours ago via web


BAD E=Mc2 Now that is Initials #youtoobling about 11 hours ago via web


Usher OMG I don't want anymore of this nonsense, so give me more #youtoobling initials about 11 hours ago via web


POTBBC More acronym than initials, but a start #youtoobling #initiallettersongs about 11 hours ago via web


Jackson Five, ABC #youtoobling Initial letter songs. There must be tons. Anybody? about 11 hours ago via web


Yes, I'm a- #youtoobling (a drunken sport that I'm disapponted to find no-one else joins in). Donald Fagen IGY begins, and then it's...? about 11 hours ago via web



... that was the video clip I began with. Thanks for letting me share.

Dandy deja vu

I'm loving the new-look Dandy still, and I've just solved a bit of deja vu.

I love the quarter page strips in the new Dandy, and I love the Noel Edmonds gags. And I was sure I'd seen something similar somewhere before. And, lo, I finally find in my collection a copy of Gag comic from 1992 featuring quarter page strips, one of them starring Noel Edmonds, and one drawn by Lew Stringer...



The Dandy is much funnier, by the way.

Always A... (live) - Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre

A new live video, one Sock sings about the other.



Eagle eyed Socks watchers might spot the live version of this song has changed quite a lot since the first draft studio version, which is also out there. Enjoy.

Halloween pumpkin

I just made a Halloween pumpkin of which I'm a wee bit proud:



Fans, autographs later.

Comics class kids meet The new Dandy

The new look Dandy came out today and I had the opportunity to show the first issue to the pupils in my Comic Art Masterclasses at Gosport Discovery Centre. Both groups were mixed ages, from 7 to adult, and I'm delighted to report that, firstly, I think the new Dandy is brilliant. It's all comic strip, and all the comic strips are god. It reminds me, more of anything, of Oink, the comic in which I began my career and which is fondly remembered by anyone who ever read it.

The kids, too, seemed impressed, and certainly Harry Hill as a cover star is a marvellous choice. Peppering the comic with other familiar TV faces, Cheryl Cole & Simon Cowell in particular, hits the target market's taste buds square on too.

To celebrate the launch day, I drew some of the characters on the flip chart, the kids responding well to the choices and my doodles:



The Dandy theme continued in the comics the groups produced in the classes. I drew Harry Hill on the front cover of the morning's comic, and in the afternoon group one enterprising artist created Harry Hill Gets Fit, a drawing and strip based on the Dandy designs:



I look forward to reporting back on the response to the Dandy from the chalkface over the coming weeks.

Kev F's Comic Art Masterclass

Noel Edmonds comic appearance

Noel Edmonds appears in this week's Dandy. Just wanted to get my tuppence worth in and point out he appeared in the Beano earlier, in...?



... Hot Rod Cow The Movie. Here's the unlettered artwork. My original script refers to the character as Gnome Lemons, but that was changed to the less offensive No Lemons by the editor. There's also an appearance by be, a reference to the very brief stint I did as warm up comedian for Deal or No Deal, and a pic of Jon Ronson who mentioned me unfavourably in his report on a day in the studio, after which I wasn't doing warm up any more (unrelated, I'm sure).

This was part of a three week story that ran in the Beano in 2007.

Kev F Comic Art

Harry Hill's Dandy memories

Seeing the cover of the brand new Dandy comic, starring Harry Hill, about which I'm very excited and look forward to buying tomorrow, has reminded me of a comic from my own past. Here's Harry...



...and here's my own effort in the market, back in the day, back in the very very long ago day, a comic called UT. I know. Crazy name, crazy comic. It was an attempt to do a popular parody comic, pastiching popular TV shows & films. Like Mad magazine but funny, that was our pitch. The first issue looked like this:



We led with a parody of Inspector Morse (which gives you an idea how long ago this was, the earlier dummy had featured Twin Peaks) and subsequent parodies had Dennis The Menace in Nighmare On Elm Street 3D, Bread meets Alien 3, Saddam Hussein in The Addams Family, Dead Again, Cape Fear - it was 1991, you had to be there. Sadly, after a year, our brave attempt to shake up the humour market had flopped, but I still have fond memories of it.

It was seeing The Dandy filling its cover with comic versions of TV faces (Simon Cowell, Jeremy Clarkson & Noel Edmonds as well as Harry Hill) that reminded me. If UT were still going, that's who we'd have featured.

UT's Wikipedia page
Kev F's Comic Art Masterclasses