Nose Hair
'Snake' is an Australian comic strip created in about 1974 by Allan Salisbury (aka SOLS), and when I was ten or so they had me creased up in stitches laughing. No disrespect to SOLS, but most of the jokes fall pretty flat nowadays. Just like dad's worst jokes though, you gotta laugh, then groan.. then laugh at how bad it was. 'Snake' and some of its spin-offs are still going and they appear daily in newspapers across the country.
Anyway I have this memory of one particular strip.. there was a guy at the wishing well. He's bald, except for one single hair coming out the top of his head. He flicks a coin into the well and says "I wish my hair would grow long". Then POOF! that one hair on his head is now really long. But it's still the only one on his head.
I remember just about pissin my pants with the gigglings as a ten year old.
So back when I was running the FX dept at Disney's Sydney animation studio, I told a mate about that particular strip. So he came back with a strip of his own: the bald guy says "I wish I had more hair" and POOF! suddenly he has thick hair all over his body except his head.
We did a few more each and stuck them on the wall. Soon enough, about 5 or 6 of us were doing these comic strips and drawings, all hilarious variations on the "I wish I had more hair" theme. I kept them all (about 30 of them) and I have them here at home, tucked away in a drawer somewhere.
While coming up with ideas for the Animotd, I suddenly remembered one of my own contributions to the "hair" wall, and decided to animate it. It's my favourite animotd so far, you'll find it on October 15 :)
Anyway I have this memory of one particular strip.. there was a guy at the wishing well. He's bald, except for one single hair coming out the top of his head. He flicks a coin into the well and says "I wish my hair would grow long". Then POOF! that one hair on his head is now really long. But it's still the only one on his head.
I remember just about pissin my pants with the gigglings as a ten year old.
So back when I was running the FX dept at Disney's Sydney animation studio, I told a mate about that particular strip. So he came back with a strip of his own: the bald guy says "I wish I had more hair" and POOF! suddenly he has thick hair all over his body except his head.
We did a few more each and stuck them on the wall. Soon enough, about 5 or 6 of us were doing these comic strips and drawings, all hilarious variations on the "I wish I had more hair" theme. I kept them all (about 30 of them) and I have them here at home, tucked away in a drawer somewhere.
While coming up with ideas for the Animotd, I suddenly remembered one of my own contributions to the "hair" wall, and decided to animate it. It's my favourite animotd so far, you'll find it on October 15 :)
4 Comments:
Awesome! It's great to hear about how these things evolve, and to know that there's a bit of a deeper meaning behind a hairy story! :P
--Vector
Haha! These daily animation things are awesome, and so is your blog. :)
Funny story about snake...my brother lee used to draw the title character really well...anyway, this was before I started reading newspaper comics of course - when I was seven , he actually convinced me that the Snake ‘design’ was his creation! Later of course, when I found a large mural of an identical character at high school, and soon after, the 'tiser strip...well..I let him know what I thought. Good lie but :D
These animotd's are awesome. keep them up. love your blog aswell :D
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