Nigel Auchterlounie
@n-auchterlounie
Writer. Mostly of comics. Mostly The Beano. Most notably, Dennis and Gnasher. But also cartoons. Whitley Bay.
In our timeline, skynet and terminators don't come as a surprise. We know full well what we're building and let it happen anyway. We gave the thing that called its self mecha Hitler a defence contract and started building robot soldiers.
🥹 I had a thing for Jennifer Finch. I saw L7 support Faith No More at the Brixton Academy during the 90s. She spat into the audience, and some lucky bastard two meters away caught it.
The altar from a haunted Abbey is being transported on a plane, And what always happens when haunted altars are transported happens. William Shatner needs to stop getting on planes.
Cleaning robot in Morrisons. I told it it had missed a bit. It told me to fuck off.
In this weeks Beano we discover that Numskulls have Numskulls! It's Numskulls all the way down!
This maybe the first use of a split diopter in a comic. There's one bit where someone shoots through the panel boarders.
...I'm mad keen on refections too. A refection is brilliant when you want to show people talking and show both faces...
For my graphic novel Nine Knives I went all out on framing. To use film language you can't go. wrong shooting a thing through another thing. I've even got the "Camera" at the back of a vending machine shooting through the wire spiral...
Meta pervert glasses are pretty much the prequel to the Black Mirror episode The Entire History of You.
A quote from Juilus Caesar is on the blackboard. “I dreamt tonight that I did feast with Caesar, and things unlucky charge my fantasy. I have no will to wander forth of doors, yet something leads me forth.” Cinna the poet says this & is then killed in the street. Then Nancy leaves the classroom.
Before Nancy walks out, there's that awesome bit where the kids reading Hamlet says slow in a whisper, "We're it not that I have bad dreams."...
Just before this happens, there's a kid at the front of class reading from Hamlet. He says, "and the sheeted dead did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets. Then, a couple of lines later, Nancy sees Tina... in a body bag...
Remember this bit in Nightmare on Elm Street? Nancy is dozing in class and recently slain friend Tina becons to her from the hall. Nancy leaves class unchallenged to see Tina being dragged off by an invisible force. I always thought it was really cool.
The other day, I was on the metro (Newcastle's underground/subway). I saw a woman with mobility issues. She was putting tons of weight on her crutches. She looked exhausted. She tried to perch on those anti homeless seats. Turns out they're anti disabled too. She ended up having to stand.
Cool way to do shadow on grass. Do the shadow Then do grass in shadow Then, the best bit, with some white cut into your shadow with more grass.
This goal scoring machine will be in the Dandy annual one day.
Benefits of a poor memory. I've written a strip for the Dandy Annual set during the 1966 cup final. I don't remember writing this bit so it made me laugh.
Normal, natural framing in film puts the negative space in front of the subject because that's the way they're looking. This is called long siding. "Short siding" puts the negative space behind the subject. This is meant to feel unnatural...