tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28039080.post5571940076300959775..comments2024-03-10T00:00:31.355+00:00Comments on BRIAN SIBLEY : his blog: SEARLEY DAYSBrian Sibleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02395103557170474777noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28039080.post-75940429216006752722010-09-08T16:19:44.450+01:002010-09-08T16:19:44.450+01:00Thanks for the update, MIKE, really wish I could g...Thanks for the update, <b>MIKE</b>, really wish I could get to the WBM!<br /><br />Thanks for dropping by – I've had a quick peep at <a href="http://miketoons.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow"><i>your blog</i></a> and I will definitely be doing some exploring there!!Brian Sibleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02395103557170474777noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28039080.post-45896887177549034682010-09-08T16:03:37.179+01:002010-09-08T16:03:37.179+01:002010 has been a feast for fans of Ronald Searle! H...2010 has been a feast for fans of Ronald Searle! Having seen the Cartoon Museum exhibition and the work on show at the Bettles gallery earlier in the year, last week I went to Hannover to see the Searle exhibition at the Wilhelm Busch Museum. <br /><br />Stunning! Room after room of drawings. His work for Le Monde in the last decade shows that his powers are undiminished. Huge bonus: the museum also had an exhibition of Gerald Scarfe: Heroes and Monsters.miketoonshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10781017066989520436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28039080.post-14447892333385423482010-07-23T23:57:54.699+01:002010-07-23T23:57:54.699+01:00Yes, Searle's style was very influential on th...Yes, Searle's style was very influential on the work of Disney artist, Ken Anderson, and can be seen in the look of <i>101 Dalmatians</i>. In fact, in the scene where Pongo is sitting on the window-seat of Roger's house at the beginning of the film, there are copies of the British magazine, <i>Lilliput</i> in which Ronald Searle's drawings regularly appeared.<br /><br />As you say, the exhibition at the Cartoon Museum in London was excellent.Brian Sibleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02395103557170474777noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28039080.post-14561854255949705162010-07-23T18:16:45.729+01:002010-07-23T18:16:45.729+01:00Ronald Searle's work was influenced on Disney&...Ronald Searle's work was influenced on Disney's 101 Dalmatians, and I believe that during the war he was prisoned by the Japanese (I think).<br /><br />However, I like his drawings on St. Trinians, and they are very charming, and they did a film series in the '50's I believe, and did a poor remake some few years ago.<br /><br />I've seen most of his work at the Cartoon Musuem in London - BRILLIANT!!!Steven Hartleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13825398324719609394noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28039080.post-14202138405705883482010-03-05T09:28:24.125+00:002010-03-05T09:28:24.125+00:00SHARON - Hope you've told your Dad, he shares ...<b>SHARON</b> - Hope you've told your Dad, he shares his birthday with the Founder of St Trinian's!<br /><br /><br /><b>BLUE FLOPPY HAT</b> - Welcome to my blog! I was very fearful about the new film, but thought Rupert Everett (whilst not being Alastair Sim - who <i>could</i> be?) did an excellent job as the headmistress. Actually, of course, the films (old and new) are a bit of a distraction really because the brilliance of St T's is, as you say, in the cartoons.<br /><br />Yes, Mr Searle lives in Provence. I would dearly love to have met him, but that is now unlikely, although - like all his fans - I <i>have</i> met him through his art...Brian Sibleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02395103557170474777noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28039080.post-79510969982658863822010-03-04T15:05:13.069+00:002010-03-04T15:05:13.069+00:00And of course, a very happy birthday to Mr Searle!...And of course, a very happy birthday to Mr Searle! I understand he lives in the South of France now- hope it's good weather up there.Blue Floppy Hathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13924517166595597734noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28039080.post-35576057112657072712010-03-04T15:05:13.070+00:002010-03-04T15:05:13.070+00:00Ah, St Trinian's...they tried to remake the mo...Ah, St Trinian's...they tried to remake the movies a couple of years ago with a load of young Brit It-girls and it didn't really work.<br /><br />But the cartoons are glorious. They always were, and they were my favourite reading when I was 13 and looking for material to put in fantasies about how to get revenge on my own teachers and dull Catholic girls' school.Blue Floppy Hathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13924517166595597734noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28039080.post-40608819170359551902010-03-03T10:02:02.905+00:002010-03-03T10:02:02.905+00:00What a talent Ronald Searle has!
I hope that he h...What a talent Ronald Searle has!<br /><br />I hope that he has a wonderful 90th birthday (1920 must have been a good year, because my Dad was born then as well).SharonMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17369769107190148944noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28039080.post-84634666114761922832010-03-03T08:42:20.303+00:002010-03-03T08:42:20.303+00:00SUZANNE - I suspect that (whilst rooted in a very ...<b>SUZANNE</b> - I suspect that (whilst rooted in a very British boarding school tradition) the kids of St Trinian's are fairly universal in their ruthlessness and obnoxiousness! I certainly interpreted Molesworth's fellow students, teachers and parents with those I knew from my humble Sec. Mod! <br /><br /><b>MATT J</b> - Great to meet you - <i>at last</i> - and to know that, like me, you are going to be speaking about Searle at the Cartoon Museum. And before that, I see you at tonight's show.Brian Sibleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02395103557170474777noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28039080.post-68763503399645653662010-03-03T07:53:54.308+00:002010-03-03T07:53:54.308+00:00Happy Birthday Mr Searle! Great to meet you last ...Happy Birthday Mr Searle! Great to meet you last night Brian-the Cartoon Museum show is indeed excellent as is the fine catalogue. See you at Maggs tonight!Matt Joneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06691360081537045523noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28039080.post-89721956634469849662010-03-03T06:49:54.713+00:002010-03-03T06:49:54.713+00:00What a load of memories! I remember, in my boardin...What a load of memories! I remember, in my boarding school (here in Belgium, believe it or not!) that in the room where we used to wait before to took the bus to go swimming, there was a massive cartoon drawing of what we always took to be St Trinians'. Retrospectively, I realise that it must have been a real smack in the teeth for the nuns charged with our Education... I must try & go back to visit some time...<br />fracan: the noise made by 150 girls in an enclosed spaceSuzannenoreply@blogger.com