Well now, what have we here? This is my entry for this week's
Cartoonists' Club Caption Competition. Sorry, allow me to re-phrase that. This is my LOSING entry for this week's caption competition. Not one single point. Nuffink. It was awarded a CJP. CJP stands for Crackerjack Pencil, a consolation prize for child contestants in a British children's television show who had actually won the square root of bugger all. Well, that's me, that is.
Am I bitter? Am I inconsolable? Has the world become a dreary grey for me? Of course not. It is all a part of life's warp and weft (this is said whilst rhythmically thumping the table with my forehead).
I have to admit that the cartoon is a little - well, odd. It is a strange conflation of the usual Universal film monsters obsession and Walt Disney characters. Universal's Frankenstein was released in 1931 in America (although not until a year later in Great Britain. Don't know why), Snow White was released in 1937, so already there is a little bit of anachronistic license being taken here. Doctor Disney's Monster is an amalgam of Mickey and Minnie Mouse, Goofy and Donald Duck. All in all this gag cartoon shouldn't really work and lo and behold, it doesn't! Whoda thunk it, eh?
