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It can be good - the artwork is excellent, and when it's focused and funny (the 'is my bike okay' and the escaping lungs strips spring to mind) it's great. Too much whimsy (aka self indulgent bedwetting) most of the time though.
dead-eyed chickenshit conformists
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Nah I'm exactly the same. I just really don't understand what it's trying to say or any of the jokes. Maybe I iz jus fick?
That's how I feel about the Daily Mash, except there's not even any nice artwork to look at with that.....
The two dad ones always make me well up a bit. 🙁
I'm a fan and I'd love a big glossy book but I'm in this camp.
And I'd totally buy a collected Mint Sauce book, if it was good quality images and as long as absolutely no part of the manufacturing, inventory control, cash handling or dispatch was handled by Jo Burt. Good quality prints would be good too.
I wonder whether Future hold the rights. I may try harassing them to publish something.
[i]I wonder whether Future hold the rights.[/i]
I suspect not or there'd be an awful lot more 'stuff' available.
I think Jo said the originals are kept under the bed in his spare room or something.
Just spent lunch scouring for Mint Sauce clothing; fancy diplaying how old/stupid I am this year.
Gort lost in a world of nostaligia; for me it was the fact that it was how I saw cycling back then - it WAS sunny when I cycled during holidays and cycling was the first time in my life that I really did start to appreciate nature/beautiful things etc, sometimes just dropping the bike and sitting in a field - just like the cartoon...that was all part of it.
Anyhow, I am still am no closer to understanding whether it's still going, whether there is antything produced in the way of clothing, what the hell has happened to MBUK and the "site" (it's like something from when the internet first started) and probably will just have to put up with some dull fox stuff...
Oh, and bump.
Harps back to a fun time in my life when all there was was riding, surfing and fun. Work was there to buy bikes, boards and hideously bright clothing.
Never met Me Burt so cannot comment on the man, but his cartoons made me smile.
Bring on the coffee table anthology.
I loved it. As Roger says, harks back to simpler times of endless rides without all the pressures of real life. Once I reached 14 and grew too old for MBUK, Mint was the only part that I missed.
I like mint because the artwork and sentiment appeals to me. I liked the key ring but mine broke so I wanted another, they weren't available and hence was born the anyone got a key ring thing, someone sent me theirs gratis so it all worked out in the end!
Yossarian, schadenfreude is an ugly,ugly thing.
ost in a world of nostaligia; for me it was the fact that it was how I saw cycling back then - it WAS sunny when I cycled during holidays and cycling was the first time in my life that I really did start to appreciate nature/beautiful things etc, sometimes just dropping the bike and sitting in a field - just like the cartoon...that was all part of it.
so true.
Never really read the cartoons....the few that I've seen were pretty meh. The mint sauce keyring thread and was hilarious!!! The end results really were guff and ludicrously expensive too!!
I grew up riding the South Downs in the late 80's early 90's when those bikes Mint and gang rode were in vogue.
I still picture the perfect ride in the same hues as the cartoon, and can visualise where along the ridge most of the views are inspired from.
I've got the Eternal Reek of Damp Wool at home, got Jo to sign it too