[Closed] what is your fav JoBurt cartoon

one looking east from Truleigh Hill on a sunny day.

just seems to sum it all up for me.

Think mine was the Mint Sauce one, where his gelf (Oonagh Herdwick?) got pregnant, because she haddunt used a saddle cover. They had loads of little lambs, and sold them to a pet food factory or something, to buy shiny new bike bits!

I think. T'was a long ime ago...

That was a good un rude boy!

Was a bit narked when WMB stopped the monthly full page cartoon each month.

Did something happen between em - though he still does Mint. Jo also used to right a small panel each month and I got the impression that he got upset when they mis quoted him about his thoughts on 29ers. Shame as I always like to read Jo's thoughts even if I don't always agree with em. Up there with Ferrentino and Maynard Hershon IMHO.

the editor changed and I think she thought 'new broom' or didn;t understand outback or something.

Jo seemed as surprised as anyone...

I have this on my wall

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details are foggy but I have a vague recollection of one where bolts kept sneaking away under the fridge

this is my current desktop wallpaper
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Its from the '94 calander - I change the desktop each month

I've got a "Just one more hill" poster in my garage, think it was the 20th anniversary of MBUK. Quite like it. Reminds me of my last few months on the Quantocks: knew I would probably never ride there again 🙁 so my last few rides were very long as I tried to do "just one more hill".

Then there's the "summer" one with the Girl on the hill. Thought of that one over the last few days when I noticed I could hear the birds singing in the morning, it's on it's way....

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[url= ]This one[/url] always brings a tear to the eye..

retro: I've got the fridge strip poster framed on my kitchen wall.
(Minty drops a pingf*ckkit which bounces off over a hill, through a wood, down a bit of 'shore etc and under said fridge.)

Mint Sauce is the only reason I ever buy mubbuck...

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Hurry up back! I'm missing you!!

mint sauce: [url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/7779205@N07/3287746471/ ]the trail forecast[/url] issued by the met office...

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North Shore, where the NS rider just ends up going nowhere.

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jj55, that's close....

I adore this one..

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But, oddly enough, my favourite piece of Jo's work was a very small sticker, part of one of the MBUK sticker sets. It sat on the back of my helmet, with no other stickers or adornments anywhere.

It simply said;

[i][b]THIS IS WHY[/b][/i]

Just summed it up for me.

there was also the one with mint sauce checking out trails in the woods, with the grim reaper peering over his shoulder...

''rooty...''

Two that spring to mind are Mint Sauce rides a road bike and Mint Sauce rides a bike below £500 and has an alergic reaction.

Is it just me or did anyone else think Summer was a babe?

Too many to pick one really, although the four that Jo drew for me at various bike shows are especially treasured. The 'fridge magnet' poster is on my wall at work and never fails to bring a smile. Wish MBUK would do more poster versions of Mint, perhaps four a year...
Oh, and Jo, if you read this, I love this months strip. Pure genius, and the totoro's on the fence are a lovely touch. Well done, sir, I salute you!

[url= http://homepage.mac.com/pfellows1/thisiswhy/index.html ]This is why..[/url]

I true classic
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To further this debate......

[url= http://homepage.mac.com/pfellows1/thisiswhy/index.html ]An online Mint collection[/url]

My favorite is the one at the start of the downhill which becomes a Henry the Eighth speech.

I got this one from Jo years ago - it hangs on my study wall and is also my mouse-mat.

[url= ]This is why - August 94[/url]

The fridge one for me as well
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Haunting...... The Eternal Reek of Damp Wool. I loved this 13 years ago and I love it now.

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I have a signed copy of 'Full-Suspensioners' with the granny using her Zimmer Frame with shox and forks built-in while hurtling down some steps - genius!!

My RUSS Ride for a flight Tee Shirt, closely followed by the Mint sauce strip where he rides with his dad... sniff

we must be marmalising the 'thisiswhy' blokes bandwidth. Sorry mate 🙂

I hope it doesn't cost him too much!

Summer reading Carrie Fisher, as above.

[i]"Then... Now... Later..."[/i]

How time passes ([i]very deep sigh[/i]) - where's my Bula hat?

I can't remember it well enough to find, but there's one incredibly sad one about Summer where she doesn't make a single appearance, not even in the final frame.

I also really like the Edward Hopper Nighthawks and the "There's an art... to mountain biking" Damien Hurst pastiches.

I recall one from yonks ago - where I think Mint's mending a flat, and hears a "click / clack / click / clack" sound from behind him. He daydreams that it's some hot chick in heels, but it's actually one of his bovine / ovine mates in roadie cleats walking towards him - saying something about "fancy a roadie bash", IIRC.

I'd love to see it again if it's kicking around on t'internet - I did laugh a lot at the time, and still chuckle to myself whenever I'm wandering around in my roadie disco pumps.

More recent (and juvenile) ones, include "I've never seen a gash foam that much" which is enough to put me off going tubeless for good! 🙂

speaker2animals

What was Jo Burt's opinion of 29er's?

Just curious like.

I like the one where he shoots the air shock in the sharks mouth and it explodes killing the shark meaning that all the people can return to the beach and sod off out of the woods/countryside.

Well I've got an A1 "this is why" poster hanging in the bathroom (was in an old MBUK). just the gang thrashing singletrack in the trees.

There's 2 prints hanging in the hall - a summery chilling out on the 'Downs one and a seasons one.

There's one of the 10th Mountain Mayhem prints hanging the other side of the hall.

And then there's this...
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My 30th birthday pressie from my missus. I can still stand there gazing at it for ages 5 years on. Very, very, special to me.

has to be this one for me...
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My god, does no one remember 'the stench of damp wool' one? Loved that.

Also as a side note, i have a tenuous claim to fame of inspiring a Mint Sauce cartoon. (in WMB) where the woman has a 'deore'gasm. Thanks to a thread on here about my missus old mate's spunky teddy.

That one in the outcast where they sll say at the end ' great ride lads'& 'see ya next week' then they all ride off in different directions thinking '****s'

thanks folks, thank you all very much, i guess i best keep going then

(tries to find space for Spunky Teddy in strip on desk right now)

Thank you, Jo, for something that I, for one, find truly inspiring. I never tire of looking at my 'fridge magnet' poster. Pleeeeese try to get MBUK to do more like that.

Mint cartoons were the visual soundtrack, if there is such a thing to my biking childhood. Loved them to bits and if ever there was a book, I'd buy it they take me right back to those days. Thanks Jo, huge thanks.

what a great thread this turned out to be i started it on a whim, round of applause for Jo and his continued originality please

Where's the best place to download MS desktops?
Mint accompanied my intro to mtb, still gives me a nice warm feeling! Good on ya JoB.

is mine the only non mint one?

Back in the day I used to know this bloke called michael milhinch who really wanted to live the mtb (well mbuk) life, but had a few wannabe / fantasist issues. Think of how Westwood would have turned out if he got into mtbs. The guy even had some business cards printed up with 'Pedro Bull - mtb journalist', no doubt to ape 'Zack Tempest'.
Anyway, he started boasting that he was going to be in the next mint-sauce cartoon. And sure enough he was. IIRC there was a covered corpse in a mortuary with a toe sticking out, and on that toe was a tiny toe tag with the name 'millhinch' scribbled on it.

That's my favorite 🙂

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Thats easy!.....

All of them!

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that one where he wears pink lycra and starts singing erasure songs while looking wistfully up to the sky.
wondering why he was born a cycling sheep with no reproductive organs in a rad dood kids mtb magazine instead of appearing somewhere more worthy.

I really like the one where he rides up to heaven to see god.

2 memorable ones for me - the one where they are dragging bags full of £10 notes through the mud - so true.
and this one (also true!)

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is mine the only non mint one?

My current fave is "The Man with the Hammer" from Rouleur. In fact, I think all of Jo's illustrations in Rouleur are ace.

Yeah, good on you Jo for being so central to the lives of so many thirty-somethings wishing they were young again...!

Following on from DezB's Darkside, it doesnt get much Darker than this!

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Just the one frame pinned to my office wall. Makes me chuckle. October 1991 according to the back of it. I think (wrongly quite possibly) that Mint was still black and white and never more than half a page at that point.

some classics. that one from BigYin had me nearly welling up. Nearly... (M'sTFU)

I prefer Paul Sample's Ogri...

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My fave was the one where Mint is caught cleaning his bike in the bath only for his missus to b*llock him for using a a Panaracer Dart on his rear wheel. Thanks to JoB for Mint!

jimmy im glad it had that effect on you too. I was having a bit of a MTFU moment at my desk after seeing it (different bigyinn BTW)

Bloody hell that trail forecast...I actually recognise the lyrics, I think thats a first!

Learning to ride is good, eternal reek of damp wool is pretty cool, I still have there's an art to mountain biking somewhere (but my wife won't let me put it up in the front room!) and I really like [url= ]granny ring[/url] but i think my fave is:-

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So I cry, and leave my heart to the deep blue sky...

Having said that, this month's is pretty good. For me, it's Summer.. she's.. well.. never mind.

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Here is a link to most of the mint sauce cartoons, enjoy.

http://homepage.mac.com/pfellows1/thisiswhy/index.html

As someone said earlier it's gotta be the one where they're scoping out a line down a rooty drop. They discuss how it's "nadgery" with nasty,nasty roots.Mint says "Doable" and Death puts his quill pen to his lips ready to write his name in his book!

We've referred to that cartoon on our rides more than any other.

got a tattoo on my arm think it was Jo,s handy work(sorry for pinching it Jo consider it a respectful tribute)it was from MBI an article entitled old gits who should know better.features a grizzled MTBer tearing downhill aboard a zimmer frame!trouble is it's becoming a self portrait!

Lot's of people seem to have prints (any originals?). Just wondering do you have to be special or go to a special event to get one or can anyone get hold of them at any time. I've seen a few that I'd buy out of this lot.

I Love JoB's work, I'm another one in the girl sitting on hill as my favourite camp.

Although as an artist I know he can be a little tempremental, I know I know he apologised to me ages ago 😉

Dunno if youre interested or not but hey ho ...............

http://www.retrobike.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=50524

[i]"Doable"[/i]

Caused me a few injuries too, that word!

that strip very neary balances out Doddy in MBUK, making it bearable.

my commanding officer in the army used to think i was off my trolley when he came round doing room inspections when i was in the army as my pit space was covered in mint sauce clippings and everyone else had ray vaughan up lol . happy days 😉

the "viking funeral" ones my favorite
they find mint still on his bike green pace i think ,decide hes dead
and set him on fire and roll him down the hill

classic

Aaaah, Mint Sauce, memories of a simpler time when I "worked" in a bike shop reading MBUK all day, lusted after a Kona Explosif - it was 1994, and rode - A LOT!!! I must admit I've come over all misty eyed and the missus thinks I'm going through some sort of mid-life crisis............ could be right.

mikey-simmo - Member
Mint cartoons were the visual soundtrack, if there is such a thing to my biking childhood. Loved them to bits and if ever there was a book, I'd buy it they take me right back to those days. Thanks Jo, huge thanks.

Well said Mikey, and another +1 to buying the book!

I've read them since way back when £500 bike tests were £100 bike tests, and they were the [i]only[/i] reason to buy MBUK, if I read anything else in that mag it was after Mint Sauce. I love them all and they all remind me of different times and different moments in my Mountain Biking life; like the first LX chainset I got (£30! How much?) the first time I did the High Street in the Lakes and recalling the summer cartoon, and thinking "I'm actually doing it!" Saddest one is reading a certain issue at a certain downhill in Derbyshire, waiting for a certain McRoy to turn up, then hearing the saddest news of all over the tannoy...but that ain't Jo's fault.

Mint Sauce has that power to evoke the best in us, to bring out the feelings that we normally keep hidden, and to remind us why we love mountain biking so much. An artist that can make us laugh at the same time as drawing a tear, and make us wistful in Winter for the Spring that's coming should be lauded from on high! So, Jo, I've never met you, don't know if I will, but I feel like you know me, I feel like you see what I see, amazing. Keep on keeping on, and is there no chance of a compilation?

Best,

LJ.

The thing I love about them is not just the general sentiments which always seem to be spot on but also all the little details that you spot when you look at them in more details.

I just spotted some Faith No More lyrics at the top of [url= ]this one[/url]- bit of a suprise!

WHat Aviemoron and Lost Jonny said.

Reading this thread yesterday it did fill me up with emotion, harking back to the early / mid nineties of lusting - and I mean REALLY lusting over bikes, when new suspension forks were coming out with 2 full inches of travel, skinny steel was still what bikes were made of, shimano LX (93) was porn... Happy happy days, and MS just seems to encapsulate the feeling, all that was good, not so good and laughable about being a mountain biker back in the day.

Another shout for a Mint Sauce compendium. I have a lot of old magazine tearouts, posters and calendars but I'd buy a book for sure. Has it ever been seriously mooted?

Im another one that has this thread bringing back memories. I can remember as a little girl stealing my brothers MBUK just to read mint sauce and wanting to go out and bike but I was too young to be allowed to join in.

why isn't there a JoBurt strip in ST, seems like there would be a few readers who'd welcome it?

Another shout here for the compilation book (waves wad of tenners in the air)

The one this month, with a hint of summer was particularly nice. Another one here who would buy a couple of mint sauce compendiums. Would need to be hardback and nicely printed on larger than A4 paper, with posters included.
Big fan!

Thankyou Mr Burt for all the Mint Sauce over the years, keep them coming. The're just awesome.

Wasn't there real actual talk of a book last year? JoB?

*crosses fingers*

"why isn't there a JoBurt strip in ST"

I don't think they coudl afford him, tbh.

I get the impression if it wasn't in mbuk he'd stop and do something else, as well.