Something that screams Glasgow

[thecatsmother]

I've often wondered the story behind this captive 'tic scarf

Har! I even know where that is!

[yoker brian]

Now, wonder where Turbo got the subject of his Armadillo piccy?

I didn't post that one!
Chris...

Smack!!!
That's got to be some sort of compliment for the all the good artwork, never occurred to me to check.

But, credit to Yoker Brian where it's due

Thanks Apollo.


I happened to be wandering down near the science centre, and spoted the empty bottle lying on the ground next to some kind of pillar somewhere between the new (millenuim?) Bridge and the Bells Bridge, it's now covered over with the portakabin compound for the new BBC site.

It was too good an oppurtunity to miss, I had anover scout about looking for an empty Irn Bru or Tennents Lager can to complete the set, but couldn't find any!

Bri

[Pgcc93]

Not forgetting Comics with a very distinct Glasgow theme.

Anybody remember "Glasgow's Alive", which followed on from Miles Better? It won a 45,000 pound competition, would you believe.
Or do you remember the cartoon in Electric Soup comic of "Glasgow's a Dive"

Nice one Ronnie, Electric Soup was the business . I have every issue bar 1&3. Superb draughtsmanship by Glasgows finest cartoonist Frank Quitely. I think he's one of the leading artists for DC comics in the USA now. Doing 2000AD comics.

His parody of "The Broons" has to be seen to believed.

Quitley's toons were called "The Greens" and it had every family member down to a tee, but in a totaly inverse situation.

What about "The Wildebeast's"? or The Bears Fae Brig'ton to name but a few.

Too bad they Sold out to the VIZ people after only a few issues, They should have stayed put in Parnie Street and not sold out.

The B*st*rds.

A sample of some early front covers of Electric Soup, Glasgows answer to Viz in the early 1990's and a whole lot more sophsiticated than it's southern counterpart

Artwork on both covers by Frank Quitely


This is the Xmas edition issue 2 featuring a Flashing Phsyco Santa all tooled up in an archway while an unimpressed Wendy the West-End Trendy looks on. Note the Tollbooth and the Tron Church in the background.

Phsyco Santa features in a classic episode of Frank Quitelys The Greens inside If ye's are good I might even post it up


In this issue No.5 front cover we find The Greens (Parody of The Broons) flying over Glasgow City Centre in a Balloon Note the detail of the Kingston Bridge and the Tuxedo Princess in the lower corner with the Co-Op building and for some strange reason an unfilled windmillcroft quay He must have been using and old map to get the perspective right

[crusty_bint]

>>>HMS Glasgow

[AMcD]

Good shout Pgcc93.

The Electric Soup was a great comic, Frank Quitely's stuff especially.
I'll need to have look and dig the few copies I have.

Noticed on the way round to Mono the other night, just round the corner from Parnie Street (where the 'Soup office was), on King street, there's a hairdressers called Greens. Their logo on the sign is very similar to The Greens logo used in some of the comics.

[turbozutek]

I know it was supposed to be set in Edinburgh... But I don't care!

Chris...

[shuttle534]

Just out of interest. I know that you can sit and have a tipple of the finest Bucky in Nice N Sleazy' but does anyone know of other pubs around Glasgow where they feel no shame in quoffing the Tonic Wine?

[turbozutek]

Just out of interest. I know that you can sit and have a tipple of the finest Bucky in Nice N Sleazy' but does anyone know of other pubs around Glasgow where they feel no shame in quoffing the Tonic Wine?

Every pub in Coatbridge.

It's the LAW!

Chris...

[Molendinar]

cliche...



I actually quite like walking across the M8 @ charing cross, prefer the view south, but don't have a photo handy..

[Gazzathecoigne]

[kirkyguy]

That traffic cone screams Glesgae, if i was anywhere in the world and i seen that i would think Glesgae...

[Pgcc93]

great montage Gazzathecoigne .

Anyhowz! continuing the Electric Soup theme heres another Frank Quitely artwork. Featuring yet again The Greens .

Efter a trip tae the seaside they bring back more than they bargained! check out the old WW2 mine on the roof of the Camper that the Bairn just happend to find washed up on the beach predictable results ensue

ANYONE RECOGNISE THE GLASGOW LOCATIONS ON THE FRONT COVER?

[Apollo]

Awwww... in its own little coffin by the roadside at Parkhead:




And...

You know you're in Glasgow (Parkhead) when you see signs for the bleeding obvious: