Red dwarf Smegazine comic strip

[cirenshane]

My good friend kev f sutherland was the original artist of the Smegazine comic strip and he found his originals in storage the other day  

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[Flap Jack]

WHOA

[Dave]

That’s great.

Love his art, and he’s such a good ambassador for comics – both my kids have done his Comics Masterclass at school and thoroughly enjoyed it.

[cirenshane]

He’s actually thinking about selling his originals 

[si]

He’s posted a vid on TikTok and Tweeted it this morning, wondering how much people would pay for it:

Kev F Sutherland on Twitter

[cirenshane]

He’s posted a vid on TikTok and Tweeted it this morning, wondering how much people would pay for it:
Kev F Sutherland on Twitter

Yeah he dm me this morning,  

[Future Producer of Series IX – aaaaany day now]

Is that by any chance the same Kev F who used to illustrate for The Beano?

[Dave]

Yup.

[Future Producer of Series IX – aaaaany day now]

Awesome. I read a few of his growing up.

[cirenshane]

Well he’s put ythe 1st page on ebay https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/295850743995?fbclid=IwAR3kypQ_H2kTZGwc0r9ep3r9tc-wD6mgh7j-eN5k2Yp191jvKawpVpmMLgU

[Dave]

Went for £53. Who bought it?

[Quinn: Clochebusters World Champion]

[Moonlight]

[Captain Bollocks]

Maybe it’s just me, but those strips feel a lot less “busy” and easier to read without the explosion of colour, even if the colourised versions draw the eye with more immediacy. 

[Podey]

If anyone wants to own some original Smegazine artwork then I’d recommend keeping an eye on when Roger Langridge is doing comic cons. I mentioned loving the strip he did in it when I saw him at Thought Bubble and he still had the entire thing in his collection of pages that he was selling, I bought this one:

(As is the norm with old comics lettering, the word balloons are on an acetate sheet overlay)

[Moonlight]

Kiss my acetate.

[Dave]

If anyone wants to own some original Smegazine artwork then I’d recommend keeping an eye on when Roger Langridge is doing comic cons. I mentioned loving the strip he did in it when I saw him at Thought Bubble and he still had the entire thing in his collection of pages that he was selling, I bought this one:

(As is the norm with old comics lettering, the word balloons are on an acetate sheet overlay)

That’s a nice one.

[Future Producer of Series IX – aaaaany day now]

That’s waaaaaaay too dark a skin tone for Lister.

Also, uh, you know… Lister being turned into a monkey… It’s kinda hmmmmm…

[Podey]

If I recall correctly, the machine works in the same way as that one that turned “Pete” into a dinosaur and so everyone is just reverting to an earlier version of whatever they are (in the case of Kryten and Rimmer, earlier versions of loosely-associated technology), so any (living) human character would have turned into a monkey in that scene. 

But yes, it’s not the least problematic imagery I’ve ever seen. I remember being confused by Lister’s skin tone in this as a kid because I didn’t even realise that Craig Charles was black at that age, such was the lack of diversity in my life at the time. 

[Podey]

I’m sure it’ll make an interesting discussion point on a future Smegazine Rack, anyway!

[Future Producer of Series IX – aaaaany day now]

any (living) human character would have turned into a monkey in that scene.

That’s a fallacy; monkeys and indeed all other great apes are not the ancestors of man, but rather a different branch of our evolutionary line that share a common ancestor with us. So in fact Lister would more likely turn into an Australopithecus or a Homo Erectus (jest-ye-not-madam) or even a Cro-Magnon.

On an aside note: it’s a chimpanzee. I know it’s a chimpanzee and a chimpanzee’s not a monkey, I just forgot the name and used monkey as a quick shorthand.

[Podey]

any (living) human character would have turned into a monkey in that scene.
That’s a fallacy; 

It’s not a fallacy to say that that’s what would have happened *in that scene*, which is what I said. 

This comic strip is not, in fact, a nature documentary.

[Moonlight]

I want a monkey. It’s an animal that looks like a dude, why do I not have ten of them?

[Podey]

Lister would more likely turn into an Australopithecus or a Homo Erectus (jest-ye-not-madam) or even a Cro-Magnon.
On an aside note: it’s a chimpanzee. I know it’s a chimpanzee and a chimpanzee’s not a monkey, I just forgot the name and used monkey as a quick shorthand.

[Future Producer of Series IX – aaaaany day now]

Yeah if that’s a Neanderthal then I’m a monkey’s uncle.

[Podey]

It’s not helped by the skin tone, that’s for sure.

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