This was drawn under conditions I wouldn’t give to a goat. A particularly unpleasant goat who’d been getting on the other goats’ udders for some time. I’ve drawn cartoons under extreme conditions before (nervous exhaustion, sleep deprivation, shaking hands, cold temperatures and hot deadlines) but this is definitely the first cartoon I’ve ever had to draw while having insults screamed at me from the other side of a locked door.
Why should I have to sugar-coat that? It’s what’s happening around me. It’s affecting me seriously, and I won’t pretend otherwise just to spare people’s feelings. I don’t know how it’s going to end.
Fortunately thanks to the lambent™ Coco I now have access to the complete episodes of Spaced, and am able to try to relax. Basically my ideal comedy show would be something like:
Spaced + Black Books + Mighty Boosh
…and Spaced is particularly attractive because it’s obviously low-budget and it just doesn’t matter because the writing and acting is so good*. The Jaquie Brown Diaries has some of the same atmosphere, although (I’ve just looked this up) Spaced was shot on Digital Betacam, which makes everything look slightly green, while TJBD is HD video, which must look super on the DVD. My favourite benchmark of local TV comedy awesomeness Welcome to Paradise looked fine, but not all the video gloss in the world could save that particular two-legged horse.
