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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= 
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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
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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= 
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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.
Another vote for a book, I'd buy in a flash.
I'd forgotten how many great strips there were. One of my favourites was all the thoughts in Mint's head when his girlfriend was feeling romantic and asked what he was thinking...
seee .jo. we all still love you X
awww, shucks, thanks Pegglet, xxx 😉
once more, thanks everyone, it's been quite revealing to me to see which strips are peoples favourites, and reassuring too as when i send the strips out i have no idea what may hit and what may miss, and also it's frightening to see what long memories everyone has.
the book - MBUK weren't interested in producing a book, they crunched numbers and decided that it wasn't financially viable for them, which is fair enough.
a very good friend stepped into the breach and said they'd be more than happy to self-publish and deal with the marketing and distribution for me so the book WILL go ahead, eventually.
i can only work on the book when i have no other jobs or bike riding to do so it's going to take some time. there will be an all-new multi-page story at the start (some pages of which i worked on today) while the rest of the book will be a collection of past Mint cartoons with commentary on some of the strips that mean something to me, and a whole host of extra stuff.
we don't want to rush out a piece of tat, we want to make it a special thing, we want to make it glorious, we think his fans deserve it, we think Mint deserves it, but we don't know when it will be out, but it will exist, someday.
Jo, thats excellent news!
Hope when you do publish it you do an idiots guide to where all the lyrics come from for the cartoons.
One of the things that often does baffle me with Mint Sauce is the random lyrics, I often spend ages trying to find the poetry, or relevance to the cartoon cell that the text is in, only to give up and assume its some random lyrics that you inserted for no other reason than you like the song.
A guide for us thickos would be nice!
That's it then, I'm off to dig all the loose change out from the back of the sofa so I can start saving to buy the Mint Sauce book.
The Book!... Fantastic news!
Anyone attend the STW 'event' at Townley Hall? Spent hours in that room poring over all the original Mint strips, wondering if I could get back to the car with a couple under me jacket! 😀
The Book of Mint? Is it a sequel to the Book of Job?
A book would be nice, but I can see why MBUK wouldn't want to publish one. Shame, as it would be nice.
Something in the format that the Krazy & Ignatz compendiums are produced would be ace - thick softcover with ace smelling ink.
Hmm. Must compile a list of Krazy Kat books to buy....
@JoB Please make the book 'special', or even do a production one and a special edition, maybe book bound by an artisan binder.
Judging by the average age (see [url= http://www.singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/what-year-did-you-start-mountain-biking/ ]this thread[/url] for proof) and passion of the STW massiv I'm sure there are a few of us who could splash some cash for a special version.
A bit like the Maclaren F1's 'Driving Ambition' book, they did 3 versions.
Good news about the book!
The one that BigYin mentioned ('Learning to Ride') tugs at my heart strings every time I see it. Also any which feature standing stones, stone circles, tumuli and walking hills (So 'The Mendip Brothers' is well loved) 🙂