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Another one…

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A rather striking picture of the luminous Heleyni.

Today Tristan asked me to write a 200-700 word article about Garry Trudeau for next week’s Salient, which I need to finish tomorrow. I just found out that after 13 years of drawing Doonesbury, Trudeau took 18 months off to write a musical. So my career is 23 years behind his. Of course by that stage he had a Pulitzer and four Presidents hated him… but it’s still a weird coincidence.

I thought I should write about how Walden College has changed in the strip from being a fictionalised version of Yale to a satire on modern academic standards where there are Sega-themed dorms and minimum A-grades are awarded to maintain student’s self-esteem. I’ve been flicking through 37 years’ worth of Doonesbury collections, and I’m experiencing the same sensation of fullness I had after reading ten years of Salient in one go.

I’ve also sketched Corey Comet. So much for reducing the in-jokes…

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7 Responses to “Another one…”

  1. anarkaytie Says:
    March 19, 2008 at 9:44 am

    Oh, I’m so glad you’re going to do that – I threatened to write a review, just ‘cos I couldn’t bear him not to be reviewed.. but I’ve been working on the court story so haven’t touched it.

    And let’s face it – is there anyone else in Wellington who knows more about Trudeau than you? Ok, maybe I’ll give Sean Plunket the benefit of the doubt, he was pretty much doing a ’sweaty fanboy’ interview… ;-)

    Need to sit down with Heleyni soon myself, she wants a tell-all on the band tour… oh, that’ll be fun! :-D
    I saw her briefly a week or so ago, in Cuba St, & haven’t had time to follow that up. Mayb catch up for a drink to celebrate both of us completing our courses :-)

  2. anarkaytie Says:
    March 19, 2008 at 9:46 am

    oh, and well done for starting on the denim demon!

    So much moral fibre being exhibited at once is dizzying, I’m getting speed wobbles just contemplating the output!!! ;-)

  3. thomsedavi Says:
    March 19, 2008 at 11:41 am

    Heleyni has cool hair. It looks like vanilla ice cream with a raspberry jelly coating. In fact, I’m going to go down to the dairy and buy one of those right now.

    I’m going to re-read my contract and see what leeway I have for colouring my hair. That picture inspires me.

  4. brunswick Says:
    March 19, 2008 at 5:17 pm

    Dear God, what have I done?

  5. Rhinocrates Says:
    March 19, 2008 at 9:07 pm

    Don’t worry, I’m trying to manage my receding hairline gracefully. I won’t get a comb-over – in fact i’ve instructed my hairdresser to do a Sweeney is I request one. At least I won’t have evil hair.

  6. Rhinocrates Says:
    March 19, 2008 at 9:11 pm

    what have I done?

    You know, that is the worst line a scriptwriter can use. The villian does something reckless, unleashes incalculable catastrophe and says, just before their immolation, ‘What have I done?’ That killed Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within for me. At least the writers of the Battlestar Galactica pilot took the piss by having Baltar realised that he’d been screwing a cylon agent, utter that dreadful line and then follow up with, ‘What am I going to do?’ and promptly begin to call his lawyer. Brilliant.

  7. brunswick Says:
    March 19, 2008 at 9:51 pm

    What hath God wrought?

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