Fortnight of Funnies
tintin-et-cie by Benedicte Delachanal
This is my second poem published in Rhyme & PUNishment: Comedic Verse as discussed yesterday 
. The wonderful cartoon above is from French speaking Canadian artist Benedicte Delachanal who blogs at Carnet De Dessins.
Cartoon Life
I want to live a cartoon life.
Things are clean and crispy white
in cartoon land.
Tintin’s dog Snowy,
Casper the friendly ghost
and Snoopy breathe in
the illustrators oxygen.
Strong clear black lines,
simple forms.
Dirt, unpleasant odours and itchy orifices are found elsewhere.
Swift resurrection follows bomb blasts,
bloody severed heads and ruptured spleens
no-where to be found.
Cartoon cats are squished, splayed, spliced and stretched
into emaciated bubble gum shapes,
but no worries – they quickly
spring, re-inflate and snap back into shape.
Scientific principles, gravity, speed and such like, are flexible.
Daffy Duck steps off the cliff
suspended in mid-air, until realising
the jam he’s in and plummets to safety.
Bugs Bunny is catapulted out of a cannon,
speed unchanging until telephone poles get involved.
Cowardly cartoon characters exit buildings
via replica perforations in the walls.
The threat of marriage often the motivation.
Solid walls painted to resemble a tunnel
can be entered by some but not others.
Flattened bodies of rodents, rabbits and coyotes
are testament to this variability of access.
But best of all, bags possessed by cool characters
have the ability to hold any amount of stuff
with no changes in external dimensions
of the bag – just like the TARDIS in Dr Who.
Yes, I want to live a cartoon life.
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Let the games begin!
I’m thinking the cartoon life away from Japanese anime and it’s resident cryo-stored cyborg battle-mech .. but then they’re anime and hard-pressed to be labelled cartoons. Your poem brought back all those great images of bendy power-lines and puffs of dust at the bottom of impossibly deep ravines … thanks
haha – yeah, not so much the anime stuff
Not even Homer type cartoons – doh! Thanks Geoffrey – do your think you might have some funny photos for funny fortnight?
I think a lot of people have beaten you to the idea of living as if they were cartoon characters! You know who I refer to… Bob ……, Tony ……, Barnaby …….. add as desired…… However, I did love those scenes you describe as I saw them as a child at the movies. Back then they were raving about Pig Iron Bob! Another cartoon character, so it is not new! I am trying to think of a character for you to become. I’ll get back to you when I think of someone appropriate.
haha – Bob, Tony (where the sh-t don’t stink – to them anyway – we’re I’m sitting there is a huge fowl odour coming from their caricatures). I like to think of myself as Roadrunner – haha – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2Jh0Wp_i8w
Hope you can get that on your internet connection Stafford
That’s a pretty crap video – hahaha – I am sure they did a much faster version
You two are such a good team. I hope that one day you and Benedicte will do a book together. It’d be a bestseller.
I also want to live a cartoon life. Bugs Bunny is one of my heroes. I’d like to be his sidekick and torment Elmer Fudd while teaching Marvin the Martian a thing or two about interplanetary travel. And I’d like to run so fast my lower body would keep going into a blur. Love this poem!
haha – yeah, love the way the legs blur up Selma
I also wouldn’t mind being Tweetie Pie! Thanks!
I recently introduced our three year old twin granddaughters to Bugs Bunny. They thought it was hilarious.
They never go out of fashion those cartoons Martin – slapstick comedy
Ah yes…the Tom & Jerry Theorem…
hahaha – yes Tilly, cartoon constructs and all that jazz
A fantastic collaboration. Benedicte’s cartoon is excellent.
Who would you ideally like to be, Gabe? I think I’d like to be Hobbes in ‘Calvin and Hobbes’.
Love “plummets to safety” and “Dirt, unpleasant odours and itchy orifices are found elsewhere.” – yes please! Haha. And no ageing.
Well beside Road Runner I would like to be Tintin – a roving reporter who gets to travel all over the world and not have to do any actual ‘reporting’ ever – though Tintin is a bit goody two shoes for me – I’d also like to be Captain Haddock and swear, drink heaps and live in a huge mansion with a butler (and get to travel all over the world not doing any actual work – hahaha). Blistering Barnacles that would be the life for me (pass me the rum – ho, ho, ho, hum, Abbot is dumb and Gina is scum)
haha
I have to do an other drawing with Bugs Bunny and friends!
I love your poem Gabriel and congratulation for an other excellent week theme to laugh.
Thanks Ben for your wonderful cartoon and look forward to Bugs Bunny et al.,
Quite a delightful poem…maybe I’ll move in next door to you.
haha – you can be Tweetie Pie Charles
‘Aw, da poor puddytat. He cah-wushed his widdle head.’ But you can choose – what cartoon would you be I wonder?
Yes: polarisation is strangely affirming
I love the cartoon. Particularly Barbar.
Yes, Barbar makes the picture I think
Thanks Kate – I wonder what cartoon you would be? Maybe Tintin as well – you would be a fantastic investigative journalist Kate with all that research you do for your blog posts.
Tweetie Pie it is. Looks harmless, good enough to eat, but manipulates stronger forces to outwit evil doers… nothing like George Bush.
hehehe – ‘If anything happens to me, Sylvester, it’ll be too bad for you. You’ll be made into violin strings.’
‘I get wid of more putty tats dat way!’
Thanks Stafford – Tweetie Pie it is!
My cousin used to think that he could walk out in front of cars and bounce back up like Wile E. Coyote! That might be taking the Cartoon life one step too far!!! Love your work Gabe, G
Thanks heaps Graham. I bet your cousin’s mum wasn’t too impressed (if she knew
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*uc*ing brilliant Gabe,
we all want to be a cartoon or otherwise super at some point. but life is surly the most funny cartoon.
hahaha – thanks Dhyan
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Superfabulous!! the words and the art. What a delight!
Thanks Aletha