On Youtube at last, it's David Bowie's cosmic revelation, (click to play) as seen in Socks In Space, the Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre's last Edinburgh show, which has pretty much finished touring the country after a year on the raod (it'll keep popping up from time to time). Do enjoy, this song has been a popular one.
The new Edinburgh show, ...And So Am I, opens in a month. Book now to avoid disappointment.
This week's Beano features another favourite Pansy Potter strip - Breath (you can have fun looking for my name hidden in the background, it's on sale till Tuesday). Above is an unpublished rough script, Back.
I say favourite as if it's an old classic that's appeared before. It hasn't, it's brand new. It's just that when I produced all these Pansy Potter strips earlier in the year, there were some that I thought were just okay and some that actually made me laugh when I wrote them. This week's Breath was in the latter camp. Whereas, above, you can see a script that didn't really make me laugh, and didn't make the editor laugh either, which is why it remains in rough form and was never finished and published. Seemed a good idea at the time.
Disturbingly the credits box has disappeared from
this week's Beano so, apart from those of us who've signed our work, all
the other creators are anonymous. I quite liked this week's Little
Plum, for example, and have no way of knowing who wrote it. Maybe it's
only a temporary move for "guest editor" Andy Murray and will return
next week. A very good Dennis meets Andy lead strip this week, which I
shall credit to Nigel Auchterlounie, but who really wrote it we may
never know.
Kev F Sutherland, as well as writing Bananaman in The Beano, runs Comic Art Masterclasses in schools, libraries and art centres - email for details, and follow him on Facebook and Twitter. He's been writing and drawing comics for 25 years, he must know something.
A new song from the Socks, Bye Bye Facebook. Intended as part of the music that'll play as the audience come into the new Edinburgh show And So Am I, we've made a wee video to go with it. Do please enjoy it (and try and ignore the two paedophiles you might glimpse briefly in the background).
The new Edinburgh show, ...And So Am I, opens in a month. Book now to avoid disappointment.
Here's the latest batch of comics by pupils in my Comic Art Masterclasses, in schools in Malvern, Swindon and Bristol. And having gone quite a while without doing an EC horror comics-styled header, two come along at once, and one of them's about a bus. Eerie, eh?
The celebrities these year 3, 4, 5, and 6 pupils chose for the "treading on a worm" routine were Simon Cowell (twice), Elvis Presley, Cristiano Ronaldo, Bob Marley, and Kim Kardashian.
Kev F Sutherland, as well as writing Bananaman in The Beano, runs Comic Art Masterclasses in schools, libraries and art centres - email for details, and follow him on Facebook and Twitter. He's been writing and drawing comics for 25 years, he must know something.
Attention Socks fans - the brand new 2014 Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre t-shirt is now available and it's already a classic.
UPDATE - Socks t-shirts are available in Edinburgh during the Fringe directly from me, just £15, handed to you in person. Text me on 07931 810858 with your size and we can arrange a rendezvous.
This year's shirt design (above) is our "classic" pose which appears on the posters for this year's Edinburgh show "And So Am I", and which you may recognise from our 2009 show "Goes To Hollywood" (and 2012's kids show Chunky Woollen Nits) but which has not been available on a t-shirt until now.
And this year's shirt is back to top quality (some of last year's Socks In Space shirts suffered a small problem with the logo on the front, which won't be happening again!).
A satisfied customer, yesterday.
The shirts cost £15 (UK pounds) or $25 (US dollars) each.
Postage is £3 to the UK, $10 to the US.
(So that's £18 total from UK, $35 total from US)
To be sure of getting the size you want, order your shirt now, paying by PayPal to sockpuppets@sitcomtrials.co.uk and telling us the following:
1) Size shirt you want (see sizes below), and quantity. (Only add one lot of postage per order).
2) Your full mailing address
Include the above details with your payment.
Sizes available are:
MALE S (36/38"), M (40"), L (42"), XL (46"), XXL
(50"), XXXL (54")
LADYFIT S (UK size 10), M (UK size 12), L (UK
size 14/16)
CHILDRENS Age 3-4, 5-6, 7-8, 9-1, 12-13, 14+
All shirts are black with the full colour Socks logo on the chest. The printed full colour image is approx 8" round. Any queries, email sockpuppets@sitcomtrials.co.uk
Shirts will also be on sale in Edinburgh (without postage costs) though to be sure of getting your size it's best to order now (ie before we do the print run).
The new Edinburgh show, ...And So Am I, is looming. Book now to avoid disappointment.
I'm chuffed to bits to see the cameo appearance by Ken Reid's legendary character Jonah in this week's Bananaman - and I wrote this week's Bananaman! Wayne has done it so well, getting the old-school colouring spot on and the character lookalikes so brilliantly, there is no comic fan whose heart won't have warmer cockles after seeing the strip. And I chuckled with delight in Tescos on spotting where my name had been snuck into the background. Wayne, consider yourself saluted.
Also in this week's Beano is what I think is the very first Pansy Potter strip I wrote (with my name hidden in a predictable place, you should spot it in seconds) and some excellent strips, including a witty Gruffalo-parodying Little Plum by Stu Munro & Hunt Emerson, and an eye catching (and laugh-out-loud-if-you're-nine-years-old) Tricky Dicky strip by Laura Howell. And let's be thankful we live in a country which still produces a weekly comic that includes the line "Is it just me or is the Prime Minister a potato?" Buy The Beano.
Kev F Sutherland, as well as writing Bananaman in The Beano, runs Comic Art Masterclasses in schools, libraries and art centres - email for details, and follow him on Facebook and Twitter. He's been writing and drawing comics for 25 years, he must know something.
A lovely new batch of comics by pupils in my Comic Art Masterclasses, from schools in Stratford On Avon, Hertfordshire and Swindon. Delightful and imaginative as always, this selection from the past week includes a novel twist - a variant edition.
Stinky Bottle Man was the product of a mega-class of 60 pupils (I can usually only work with a maximum class size of 30). One group (Oxford class) got a comic containing their strips, and the other (Middlesex class) got one containing their strips. It's hard work, and I've never done a group comic in that way before (they get commensurately less individual attention from me and half don't get their caricatures drawn) but it's quite satisfying to see I can pull off such a feat.
The celebrities they chose for the "treading on a worm" routine were Miley Cyrus, Gary Barlow, Simon Cowell (twice), Niall Horan, and Katy Perry.
Kev F Sutherland, as well as writing Bananaman in The Beano, runs Comic Art Masterclasses in schools, libraries and art centres - email for details, and follow him on Facebook and Twitter. He's been writing and drawing comics for 25 years, he must know something.
