tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post9040459557508611417..comments2024-03-28T16:48:18.088+11:00Comments on loon pond: In which the pond spends some quality time with dashing Donners the rote parrot and moaning, whining Mikey ...Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-78260320967794902312017-01-07T10:24:28.773+11:002017-01-07T10:24:28.773+11:00Brick Bradford! I'll see you out by the Time ...Brick Bradford! I'll see you out by the Time Top, GB!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-17599187140878778912017-01-07T01:16:19.386+11:002017-01-07T01:16:19.386+11:00Phantom comics are very much part of our living cu...Phantom comics are very much part of our living culture since a small part thereof is revealed to us 6 days per week in the Melbourne Herald-Sun. Along with Calvin and Hobbes and Garfield amongst other fine creations - even a "modernised" Ginger Meggs, would you credit.<br /><br />Now Mandrake and The Shadow - they are part of our cultural heritage, and Brick Bradford too (two of the three adorned the back pages of Women's Weekly - when it still was weekly - for many years).GrueBleennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-49220229902402646192017-01-06T22:24:58.906+11:002017-01-06T22:24:58.906+11:00Sorry, Unknown, I'll have to disagree with you...Sorry, Unknown, I'll have to disagree with you here somewhat. Taken within the context of their time, some of those Esquire cartoons are reasonably witty, or at least well-drawn. Phantom comics are a key part of our cultural heritage (okay,, the strip is American, but you probably get what I mean.....). Bill Leak's humourless, self-obsessed scratchings for the Oz, on the other hand, wouldn't have made "The Bulletin" at it's most feeble, and aren't worth using to wrap fish. Actually, I'd be wary of eating any bream or flathead that came wrapped in pages from the Oz- might do terrible things to one's digestion......<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-82457473295002890272017-01-06T21:09:57.291+11:002017-01-06T21:09:57.291+11:00A fine piece of field anthropology pond. Those esq...A fine piece of field anthropology pond. Those esquire "cartoons" exactly identify the era from which Bill Leak has time traveled. A revolutionary time when cartoonists could utterly disregard the need for humor and have them rolling in the aisles with unadorned misogyny. Although, our Bill with his wider vision has been able to incorporate a kind of neolithic racism into this long hidden school of art. Fuck, in the correct context, phantom comics should be in the school curriculum. Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09543192792820987012noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-38396759684653189742017-01-06T18:13:21.939+11:002017-01-06T18:13:21.939+11:00It's just a bit of wingnut reverence for Samue...It's just a bit of wingnut reverence for Samuel Johnson who once said: "<i>My master whipped me very well ; without that, Sir, I should have done nothing.</i>"<br /><br />I imagine that conforms to the educational beliefs of the ACU very well indeed.GrueBleennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-9920153324314295902017-01-06T17:09:54.437+11:002017-01-06T17:09:54.437+11:00Perhaps it could be said that Kevin is parroting t...Perhaps it could be said that Kevin is parroting the kind of back-to-the-past christian based "education" that will be aggressively promoted by the new secretary for "Education" in the USA, as described in the essay by Jeff Bryant titled Donald Trumps Extremist Education Agenda.<br /><br />And yes, how did Kevin ever get to be appointed a senior research fellow at the ACU. Such an appointment doesn't say very much for the quality of the research and "scholarship" at the ACU.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-22030379404910632772017-01-06T16:50:21.567+11:002017-01-06T16:50:21.567+11:00Well there's just no keeping the "Broady ...Well there's just no keeping the "Broady Boy" down, is there DP. He's arrived at his magic formula and he's going to go on and on repeating it until his terminal breath despite it having no credibilty.<br /><br />But gratitude to the Donnelly epigone of a few posts back who reminded us of Kev's greatest accomplishment: an Order of Australia (and oh, how inexpressibly precious are the gifts from one's co-delusionists) for "contributions to education". By which he meant that since everybody knows that whatever Kev says is to be avoided like the plague, he saves them from wasting some of their precious time chasing yesterday's delcon chimeras.GrueBleennoreply@blogger.com