If Music Be the Food Of Love
"Hell is filled with musical amateurs. Music is the brandy of the damned." -- George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, 1903.
posted by John M Crowther @ 8:59 AM
Cartoons, cartoons, cartoons.... John Crowther's Cartoon Odyssey
I think of it as The Fool's Journey. I've been asked who the "fool" is. It's me, but in the classical sense of the court jester. Only the fool was allowed to tell the king of his follies. All cartoons are available as prints or originals, framed or unframed, through my website or e-mail. For mugs, t-shirts, and other products visit my gift shop at www.zazzle.com/jcrowtherart* (be sure to include the *).
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
"Hell is filled with musical amateurs. Music is the brandy of the damned." -- George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, 1903.
Cartoons, cartoons, cartoons.... John Crowther's Cartoon Odyssey
I think of it as The Fool's Journey. I've been asked who the "fool" is. It's me, but in the classical sense of the court jester. Only the fool was allowed to tell the king of his follies. All cartoons are available as prints or originals, framed or unframed, through my website or e-mail. For mugs, t-shirts, and other products visit my gift shop at www.zazzle.com/jcrowtherart* (be sure to include the *).
About Me
- Name: John M Crowther
- Location: Los Angeles and Rome
Artist, writer, filmmaker, actor. Wrote "The Evil That Men Do" starring Charles Bronson. "Missing in Action" starring Chuck Norris. Performed one-man play "Einstein" off-Broadway and in Europe. Tours US with "Meet Mr. Wright," his one-man play about Frank Lloyd Wright. Art exhibitions in Italy and U.S. His work as a cartoonist has been seen in MAD magazine. Illustrated the children's books "How the Waif Bunny Saved the Boy" and "The Man In the Red Bandana" about his nephew Welles Crowther, a hero of 9/11, written by his niece, Honor Crowther Fagin, Welles's sister. Author of novel "Firebase," published in UK by Constable and US by St. Martins Press. For many years an avid student and reader of Tarot. Performs weddings as a Los Angeles County Deputy Commissioner of Civil Marriage.
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7 Comments:
Ok, do not play an instrument so can not figure out what is happening. Think he is playing a flute? Do like the composition in this drawing.
I know, I know, you do not explain your cartoons but after staring at this for 10 minutes, blowing it up full size, it still looks as if he is eating it. Alright, now at last I get it, he is playing licorice stick (flute) dud!
Lee, as with other "musical" cartoons of mine (i.e. the chef making soup in a tympanist's kettle drums) I start with an image and go from there. It's not a "licorice stick" but rather a simple flute, but the concept is the same. In retrospect it probably should be a clarinet.
Didn't work visually john. roger
I agree, Roger. I'm going to have to make another go at it.
John the way I read it was the musician was playing ever smaller instruments until all that was left was the handkerchief which he then stuck up his nose? Close? ... or way off? In any case I laughed like hell (((LOL)))
Not quite, Jean. But I totally love your explanation! Way funnier than mine!
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