Tongs: Paper Cuts

The Partially Annotated Best of Paper Cuts

For a year or so, I drew cartoons for the H2G2 newsletter, The h2g2 Post, under the title [PaperCuts]. FerkelTongs '... nicked all the cartoons and put them here, for posterity, ease of commenting or organising, and speed of downloading.' I have finally got round to weeding out the lesser ones and uploading clearer versions of some of the better ones, as well as annotating here, linking to accompanying articles there. One day I'll get round to adding newer and non-h2g2 work to this here wiki ... one day I might even do some new work. - spimcoot

PS. If folk would like to see more annotation I'm happy to provide. It seems a bit self-regarding but then, I am self-regarding.

What some Rickbots have said about The Partially Annotated Best of Paper Cuts:

: This is splendid! I haven't seen most of the later ones, and it's always good to see the early ones again. That spimcoot really knows his onions.

Hamster Flambee

Hot Jazz

A Good Cigar

Snivelling Wretch (uncensored version)

The Job Interview

Clown 2: The Dead Pierrot Sketch

Martini - Guest Artist 'Wowbagger'

My fellow cartoonist and now our very own Wowbagger drew this one when we stepped into each other's cartooning slippers, smoking jackets and thongs one week. His attempt to emulate spimcoot was far more successful than my attempt to emulate him as I completely failed to have a wife and son.

Rent

The Seagull

Christmas 2001

New Year 2001

Self Esteem

Young, Stupid and Broke

Know Your spimcoot

Silent Cartoon

Young Lungs

Go Outside?

Sartorial Note

Incomparable Genius

This was originally accompanied by the following text:

Below us, gentle reader, is the third and final appearance on Paper Cuts of our guest artist. Guest? But I would never have guessed! I hear you cry (I have a vivid imagination). Well, no. This artist has been a tremendous influence for me and I have been shamelessly tampering with his work this last fortnight and a half, and adding my own squalid S. And all to plug the entry I've just written about the [poor dear man], my greatest idle idol after myself. That was the link, by the way; enjoy the cartoon then go and have a look at it. Go on, I tire of you now.

Outside, Giggling No More, Frozen in Sunshine

Less a cartoon, more an illustration, [click here] to find out what this is about. (Not that it will help, of course.)

Let's Do Something Anarchic

Silly Voices

Tent

A Word From Our Sponsors

[Spimcoot Invites You In For a Chat]

The first of several with miscellaneous blather attached

: I'm sure I've had this explained to me before but I'm dashed if I can remember what it means, now I see it before me again.

[Beard]

[Garret]

[Consumption]

[Cocktail Hour]

[What Dreams May Come]

This next series didn't last too long, despite my prediction...

What ho readership at large. This week, a new old idea. Fans of I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue should recognise it, and if it doesn't prove that I'm the natural heir to Willie Rushton then there'll be nothing for it but to grow that beard and dye it (can one buy grey dye?). So, the idea. Fairly straight forward really (more than most weeks in fact): take a word, redefine it. There it is, could have done it last week instead of abandoning you to dangle in the void, but I'm like a cruel and capricious god only but without the omnipotence (what we deities call omnimpotence). This feature will only crop up when I've left myself short of time, so expect to see a lot of it.

Pandemonium

Chaffinch

Stickler

The next batch were originally drawn when I was trying to whore myself to Mssrs. Ingram and Hislop of The Oldie and Private Eye respectively. They didn't want 'em so after I'd given up Eustace and buggered off to France I rehashed them as Paper Cuts. (I shall upload clearer versions from my computer at home at some point.)

Breasts

: Do a google image search for Breasts, and this is on the first page you come to. Warning: Google image search is not safe for work, as you need to turn SafeSearch? off.

Paper Cuts