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my fave mint cartoon was the one where the flies where driving him mental and ended up wearing a deep sea divers helmet. From many, many, moons ago.
Still love it now.
and the fantastic fuscia friesian (from memory) was also brilliant.
many thanks Mr Burt you warped my fragile little mind!
I love the one where Lucy pulls the football away just as he is convinced that this time he is going to kick it.
that's great.
Oh and one more vote for a book. I'd pay money for it and everything.
Thanks for the bike dad makes me emotional too!
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This one just makes me smile.
So JoB...
any news re: book?
JoB - Member
i am apt to go all humble an stare at my shoes when people say they like the cartoon, but for people to get emotionally affected by it, well, that's the highest accolade you can give to any piece of work, thank you, and it means in many ways that my work here is done
No need to the cartoons, your various trolls re natural trails, disc brakes on road bikes and singlespeeds all get right on my wick!
I was reading through this whole thread (Again) and really, [i]really[/i] hoping, with crossed fingers that the last post would be Jo with news on The Book.
But it's not.
So I'll wait longer.
Jo, please don't leave it until it's too late. 🙂
I think of Jo as a mountain biking version of bonnie prince billy, which is pretty good in my book:
Book?
It was great to meet him a few years ago.
I've got 'Just one more hill' up in my [s]bike store[/s] bog. Always makes me happy when i see it.
I still remember 'Handel bars' in Bicycle Action, iirc, circa 1990 p'raps.
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I sometimes suffer through rides with people like that. I can get on with the talking bollocks when you're in the car park, or stopped at the pub, but when you're out in the hills, just shut up. Look around you. Listen to the breeze. Pay attention to the trail. If you spend the whole time nattering, you won't remember the ride when you get back home.
blimey i wondered why i'd got loads of hits on that pic the other day
"that one where Mint's Dad give him his first bike makes me well up"
Spot on. Reminds me of my dad too.
I quite like the one where lots of the sheep ask Jo to make them some jewelry and then Jo goes off and sorts it and the sun is shining and everything! 🙂
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I just found this again, a custom Mint cartoon with my bike on top of my mates car. Thanks Jo, hope you enjoyed the peaches.
Damn you for posting those "dad" ones up. Now I've gone and got something in my eye...
The Book. Get a move on, Jo. I'm not getting any bloody younger...
Where can I buy ready made prints from? my fave of all time is the walking the gangplank (but in reality its the north shore). I cant find it anywhere. Would love that framed.
Someone once said to me they'd met him and hes arrogant. For a bloke to make me tingle when I see some of those strips, well he can be arrogant ALL HE WANTS 😀
Mr Woppit - Member
The Book. Get a move on, Jo. I'm not getting any bloody younger...
+1 c'mon Jo what do we have to do?
only just replaced desktop, 'death with mint on scalextric track' with an autumn mint...no point denying it, soon be winter...
Beautiful work.
Jo - given that getting a book published is no easy task, why not start with selling it electronically say as an app for a smart phone or something? They're doing it with the STW mag so why not with your cartoons.
Oh and being father to a son of just one year, that 'thanks for the bike dad' strip really did bring a tear to my eye.
Or a limited run of prints? I'm in if you do. Does he post on here?
Jo - given that getting a book published is no easy task, why not start with selling it electronically say as an app for a smart phone or something? They're doing it with the STW mag so why not with your cartoons.
You might as well just look at the thisiswhy.co.uk wesbite if you want an e-book though.
Hora, you are obviously NOT PAYING ATTENTION.
JoB - Member
hullo,
if this thread could be resurrected at least once a year to remind me that after 20+ years it's well worth keeping going with Mint then that would be greati am apt to go all humble an stare at my shoes when people say they like the cartoon, but for people to get emotionally affected by it, well, that's the highest accolade you can give to any piece of work, thank you, and it means in many ways that my work here is done
some new artwork for The Book is down there (points) in an A3 envelope, i work on it when there's a gap in the jobs that pays the bills, one day it will appear, one day
actually i'll do some work on it later today, just because of this threadoh, and Summer makes a fleeting appearance in next months episode
Hora, you are obviously NOT PAYING ATTENTION.
Whats new?
Job - I love you man. I truly do. If I ever meet you I will dry-hump your leg like a young Yorkshire Terrier on a plump cushion.
If I ever meet you I will dry-hump your leg like a young Yorkshire Terrier on a plump cushion.
Hora you really are quite special aren't you. Is this gift for colourful similie something you've always had or did it develop during puberty?
I saw this with all respect and while I am ROTFL.
Blame JoB for recreating the Yorkie humping a cushion in my mind 😯
i'm gutted i don't have the mint t-shirt i had when i was younger, even more so the pic jo drew for me at bike 95. 🙂
my favourite was the one from one of the calendars, i think, where mint's at the top of a ridiculously steep ascent, leaning right over the front and the bike curled underneath. probably makes more sense in my mind's eye!
that was pretty easy to find! now my desktop wallpaper. 😀
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A book! A book! Yes, please! (waves a roll of notes)
@theflatboy - reminds me of me, following you guys up the hill the other week - or, being dragged around the FOD this last week 😀
either way, tis now my desktop, kicked Summer off, cos it seems she's all but disappeared, for this year anyway... 😉
this is such a good thread!
so many great ones 'thanks dad' and 'killing time' on here are brilliant, I also love the 'mendip brothers' and 'fridge suck' ones.
I can remember some really old school ones from my chilhood but can't find them online, on where Mint has handlebars as wide as the start line and another where he straps two bed mattresses to him before a big jump; would love to see them again.
EDIT - I'd so buy the book too when it comes out!!
Signed Prints please. Pretty please. 🙂
Jo if Mint doesn't bring you any (much) money might I suggest STW offer you something, as I know quite a few people who only buy MBUK to see your work.
hmm lots of old Mint Calendars under desk @ work - must get scanning tomorrow morning....
How portentous that Jo drew some wind turbines on the Mendip Brothers. I'm sure there wasn't one on the Mendip at the time, but there is now!
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stevio - Memberhmm lots of old Mint Calendars under desk @ work - must get scanning tomorrow morning....
save yourself the trouble: http://homepage.mac.com/pfellows1/thisiswhy/index.html
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save yourself the trouble: http://homepage.mac.com/pfellows1/thisiswhy/index.html
Not sure if I'm missing something but none of the links on the homepage.mac site seem to work.
Same here. I think its 'Pirates' thats my favourite.
they all work for me, gt - at least the ones i've tried have all seemed to.
edit - actually i only clicked on a couple of the calendars and they worked ok, the rest don't seem to.
I'd never really seen Mint Suace before - I obviously don't get the "wrong" mags - but this thread is excellent! Converted now.
Now i can join in - Hurry up with the book!!
just tried thisiswhyand it doesnt work for me 🙁
c'mon JoB..we need this book!
just noticed this thread...must do something with all the mint sauce pics stored in the filing cabinet. In terms of favs I like the one where mint has just had a stack and he and his bike are in a bit of bother - the Reality Squadron are hovering menacingly overhead. Also any with Summer in, she is lovely.
Who mentioned a mint book? Yes please!!!
I used to read the correct mag for a regular does of mint sauce. I was even in the fan club as a nipper. Then I got bored of the mag despite still enjoying mint.
Came across a strip recently where mint rides along until the last scene at the bottom of the hill and finds a line of "dudes" waiting for the uplift. Reminded me of the monty python sketch about the milk men.
Miny has still got it!
+1 on the book.
Really liked firdge suck and road bike from years ago. The dad teaching him to ride one was great as well. Reminds me of my late gran buying me my firts (and most after that) bike.