THE GOON GALLERY: CLASS ISN'T SOMETHING YOU CAN BUY

Thursday, August 11, 2011

CLASS ISN'T SOMETHING YOU CAN BUY

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Labels: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Goons by Antares, great American novels, nouveau riche, upward mobility, Yuppies

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What is Goonology?

On a stoned and stormy evening sometime towards the end of 1991, I was visiting a Canadian friend named Tim Bremser and, in the course of our conversation, I called somebody a Goon.

"What's a goon?" Tim asked. Apparently, goons don't exist in Canada. Or perhaps they go by a different name there?

"You don't know what a goon is?" I responded, at a loss to explain the term.

Tim handed me a brand new artist's sketchpad and a couple of felt markers. "Come on," he urged, "draw me a goon!"

For the next hour or so, I couldn't stop drawing goons. Here they are in all their glory, a quarter-century down the line... an entire Gallery of Goons!

Antares

21 December 2015

SPECIAL DEDICATION

...to my grandson Max who loves to draw and is damn good at it too!

DISCLAIMER

No relation to the infamous Goon Show of the 1950s, starring Peter Sellers, Harry Secombe and Spike Milligan.

And then there's the....

No relation to THIS mob either!

Er... absolutely no relation to the venerable GOON INSTITUTE (founded in 1936)...

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CLASS ISN'T SOMETHING YOU CAN BUY

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