18 Comments

1. Ralph Says:
   November 17th, 2006 at 11:29 am

   …and if we’re lucky, one day he’ll even learn how to draw.

2. Robert Scoble Says:
   November 17th, 2006 at 12:02 pm

   Ralph: one thing I’ve learned about critics, they rarely know how to do anything other than complain.

   So, why don’t you prove us wrong and put your own cartoons on your blog?

3. Kat Herding Says:
   November 17th, 2006 at 1:06 pm

   That gentleman is a good cartoonist, but I think he should see someone. I mean, is that NORMAL? Also, I don’t get the jokes.

4. Josh Chandler Says:
   November 17th, 2006 at 5:10 pm

   I love these cartoons they are quirky and interesting.

   Josh Chandler
   http://www.techilious.wordpress.com

5. /pd Says:
   November 17th, 2006 at 5:52 pm

   Hugh is a class of his own.. :)-

   Cartoonist may come and go, but its only Hugh who has contributed so so much for blogosphere and bloggers..!!

6. Jayakumar Hariharan Says:
   November 17th, 2006 at 7:40 pm

   Ever heard of Wi Fi Spray?
   ;-)

   http://ideaburger.blogspot.com/2006/11/wi-fi-spray.html

   Jay, from Bangalore

7. LayZ Says:
   November 17th, 2006 at 8:53 pm

   @2 Ralph wasn’t complaining; he was making an accurate observation. Although one could say that is Hugh’s uniqueness. But to say he was complaining is inaccurate. And your response was childish. Why does everyone have to have a blog in order to engage with or be relevant to you?

8. david Says:
   November 18th, 2006 at 1:16 pm

   Well, his drawing’s ok for what it is. A British cartoonist, Austin, was a pretty basic drawer but was one of the most consistenly funny cartoonists - The Guardian (UK) and The New Scientist benefitted, particularly. This one for eg:

   http://www.unsystem.org/scn/archives/scnnews04/p20.gif

   Hugh Macleod isn’t funny, or thought-provoking, or anything else worth anything much, I think.

   I can draw, by the way, and I’ll put up one or two of mine in a bit. Don’t know how that would or wouldn’t validate your view of Macleod, though.

9. Bess Says:
   November 18th, 2006 at 4:09 pm

   Nice cartoons.

   I usually don’t stay on a blog. But your blog makes me smile. A good cartoon can light up my day. More reasons to come back to your blog.

10. hugh macleod Says:
    November 19th, 2006 at 4:18 pm

    David, I checked out your blog and came to pretty much a similar conclusion about your work. Basking in mediocrity like a beached whale, I thought. But that’s OK, I concur with your point about Austin.

    Cartooning is not about draftsmanship. Cartooning is about cartooning. Our mutual friend Ralph kinda forgot that.

11. Bess Says:
    November 20th, 2006 at 4:24 am

    Hugh: I like your cartoon. Simple and to the point. Cartooning is about cartooning.

    Others: Why making a simple laugh so complicated? If I can make you laugh, it is cartoon.

12. Steve Clayton: Geek In Disguise : GapingVoid talks to Microsoft: Pt1 Says:
    November 20th, 2006 at 6:09 pm

    [...] Anyway, in this 7 odd minute video Hugh and I chat about the birth of GapingVoid, why he just bought a Mac, Scoble and more. Part 2 will follow soon when we talk about wine and tailoring. Part 3 had yet to be filmed but I’m hoping involves some wine ;) [...]

13. david Says:
    November 21st, 2006 at 12:23 pm

    Hugh, who’s ‘our mutual friend Ralph’? And my blog isn’t ‘my work’, btw.

    I really can’t see why you feel any more qualified than anyone else to comment on cartooning. Just because you doodle and call them cartoons doesn’t make them so, does it?

14. hugh macleod Says:
    November 24th, 2006 at 4:22 pm

    David, keep digging your hole. It’s fun to watch for some of us.

15. david Says:
    November 25th, 2006 at 3:47 am

    Hugh, you’re obviously annoyed but who is the ‘Ralph’ you mentioned?

    Still don’t like your cartoons…

16. hugh macleod Says:
    November 26th, 2006 at 3:46 pm

    Yes, David, I am obviously annoyed by your rapier-like wit and higher insights. Heh.

17. david Says:
    November 27th, 2006 at 1:10 pm

    Er…Hugh, ‘higher insights’? See, that’s the sort of clumsy language you use in your cartoons. English your first language?

    I guess you are annoyed. You keep coming back here to post a comment. I just wish you’d answer a simple question.

    Who on earth is ‘Ralph’? Did you mistake me for someone else?

18. hugh macleod Says:
    December 4th, 2006 at 7:47 am

    Ah, so you’re an prose expert as well as an art expert, Dave? You Renaissance Man, you ;-)

    Ralph left the first comment on this thread.

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