Crazy Comics Interaction
16-02-2012
OK... I am looking for some greatly interesting Lost in Translation or bumbling foreigner ('Firang' in Hindi) type scenarios and stories. We've all been on holiday or even lived abroad and experienced some form of hilarious mix up with the local language or culture, or caused a completely exasperated look upon the face of a helpless local, unaccustomed to our 'Firang' ways. Whether you are a Brit living abroad or an Indian living or holidaying in England, you, the foreigner can be deadly with your cultural misgivings. Please e-mail me now (paulcook555@hotmail.com) with your anecdotes, cartoons and photos...
Later in the year, I will select a winner and will crown him or her with a cartoon illustrating the mishap!
I look forward to hearing from you!
Paul Cook
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| Thought of the day: 16/02/2012 Firang on The Delhi Metro "This happened to me just the other day..." Actually, to be precise, I tailgated my pal who possesses a substantially greater level of Delhi Metro cred/savvy than I do... I was practically stepping on his heels so I could disembark as he put it, ‘without any difficulties’. Assuming it would be the same as the London Underground, I proceeded to get off expecting a reluctant parting from a sheer volume of waiting passengers on the platform, when all of a sudden, a deeply threatening mob somehow got between me and Ryan and pushed me back on the train, laughing as they did it, so they could get on before anyone else. I looked through the increasing mass of bodies as I went further back onto the train, looking for an escape route and Ryan’s hand at that point only, appeared as ornate and beautiful as a rubber ring thrown into the mess of a freezing Atlantic misadventure. Better anecdotes than this will be forthcoming... Honest. For now though everyone, please please please oh prettiest of pleases... send some decent ones of your own for everyone to enjoy. |
16-02-2012...
Artists To Remember: This month...
There is no greater artist than Louis Wain (1860-1939)... That's if you happen to think cats are... Well, the cat's pyjamas and should be the focal point of an entire career. Wain's vast back catalogue does pay startlingly close attention to cats and depicted so in anthropomorphic form as they adorn themselves in Victorian elegance, both in dress and in their mannerisms.
"He invented a cat style, a cat society, a whole cat world. English cats that do not look like Louis Wain cats are ashamed of themselves."
(H G Wells, 1927)
H G Wells was a top bloke as well as an impossibly good writer. He was instrumental in getting Louis Wain moved to a more secure and stable 'hospital' after he had been committed to an asylum (a pauper ward of a mental institution) as a result of his schizophrenia. He was certified insane by 1924. Well, after the First World War, the public's interest in cats had 'wained' (nothing to do with the war in particular... I mean, there were no strong anti-feline sentiments felt because essentially, moggies did not trigger the events which led to the start of the Great War)... Anyway, basically felines were not the bee's knees anymore and Wain's illustrations no longer made the front pages of highly circulated journals in the UK and even in the USA as they did at one point. He was faced with a mounting debt and lost grip on reality... I wonder if he kept seeing cats playing cards all the time, all over the place...
Check out some of these lavish paintings... You may have come across his works but probably never knew the name of the artist. Here's to Louis Wain... One of the greats of English Art:
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| Louis Wain in "I am feeling inspired by this here cat" mode |
Any ‘Favourite Artists and Why’ suggestions are greatly welcomed. Please let us know.
