Stuff Said 054: Roger Langridge

SHOW NOTES: Roger Langridge’s website and twitter Read an excellent interview with Roger that I refer to a number of times in our conversation here. Th cover of Paradox Press’s BIG BOOK OF URBAN LEGENDS, where I’m pretty sure I first saw Roger’s work in the form of the alligator on the cover: The drawing I mentioned wherein I drew the mouth of a gorilla in a manner that was surely influenced by Roger’s work, even if very poorly executed: The cover and some interiors from Les Cartoonists Dangeroux – FRED THE CLOWN: As an assistant editor at Marvel I hired Roger to ink Ron Frenz on a Captain America story. Here are a couple of pages, including the one with “the real Captain America”: I have a mini-comic of Roger’s pre-Boom! Muppets comics; when I find it I’ll post a photo here. Miss Piggy uses the phrase “bacon brain” in this “Pigs in Space” sketch from THE MUPPET SHOW. THOR: THE MIGHTY AVENGER Roger took photos of the sculpts he did as a young man of the cast of the Popeye comic strips (they’re awesome): But wait, there’s more! Roger sent me a shot of this bonus, non-Popeye sculpt, of Mr. Mind, as Roger put it, “at 100% scale, yet!”: Here’s a TV commercial for the Popeye movie from 1980 (with the screenplay by Jules Feiffer): The Smithsonian Collection of Newspaper Comics Read more about Popeye and Bill Blackbeard’s ALL IN COLOR FOR A DIME piece on E.C. Segar here. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass Check out more about Roger’s books – SNARKED, ART D’ECCO, THE SHOW MUST GO ON, ABIGAIL AND THE SNOWMAN and of course FRED THE CLOWN at his website. BONUS AUDIO: Roger and I talk about his digital-only book THE 13TH FLOOR (contains spoilers):http://stuffsaidshow.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/RogerLangridge_Extra_13thFloor.mp3 The flashback cross hatching I mentioned in PIX: ONE WEIRDEST WEEKEND: A clip from The Young Ones: An episode of The Day to Day: Mark Thomas Tim Minchin Bill Bailey Daniel Kitson Stuart Lee Flight of the Concords (HBO site) Dylan Horrocks, New Zealand cartoonist and author of HICKSVILLE Roger was paired with a notable British writer to produce this comic for The Guardian newspaper. Other podcast appearances: Let’s Get Busy, War Rocket Ajax, The George and Tony Entertainment Show, Secret Identity, Nerd Lunch, and The Chris-o-Matic Show web video series. PIX: ONE WEIRDEST WEEKEND Diamond Comics Item #DEC141546 “Stuff Said Theme” by Craig Chin (also on Soundcloud) Other music/audio: “She is Staggering (instrumental)” by Polaris, “London Calling” by The Clash, and “I Yam What I Yam” by Harry Nilsson