The Goon Show in Colour

Inked in brush with Sumi Black Japanese Drawing Ink on Canson Bristol Board. Both the colors and effects added digitally. My take on some key characters from the classic British Radio Comedy THE GOON SHOW which starred Peter Sellers, Harry Seacombe and Spike Milligan. Featuring clockwise:Count Jim Moriarty, Hercules Grytpype-Thynne, Major Dennis Bloodnok, Eccles, Neddie Seagoon and Bluebottle.  Some of the look of the characters were inspired by both the comic strip and the puppets from the children's series based on the radio show THE TELEGOONS. I altered some of the character designs slightly. Especially in the case of Neddie Seagoon and Count Moriarty which I tried to make resemble Harry Seacombe and Spike Milligan, the men who portrayed them on radio and television respectively. In the case of Count Moriarty I gave him a sickly green pallor because he's always described as "deathlike" in the radio plays.