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    Short Pants
    Short Pants
    Short Pants
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    Short Pants

    By Mel Croucher and Robin Evans

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    This collection of artwork and words is a unique record of the life-long partnership of Mel Croucher and Robin Evans, and their bonkers mission to disrupt and corrupt an entire generation. The cartoons, the illustrations, the graphic novels, the book covers, the anti-heroes and the femmes fatales - they're all here. The work of Croucher and Evans achieved cult status in the pre-digital world, and is now published in its entirety for the first time, along with the scabrous truth on what was going on behind the scenes.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAcorn Books
    Release dateFeb 23, 2018
    ISBN9781785388286
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      Book preview

      Short Pants - Mel Croucher

      Insπred

      the collected artwork of

      Mel Croucher

      and

      Robin Evans

      Volume 1

      Short Pants

      Published in 2017 by

      Acorn Books

      www.acornbooks.co.uk

      an imprint of

      Andrews UK Limited

      www.andrewsuk.com

      Copyright © 1988–2017 Mel Croucher & Robin Evans

      The right of Mel Croucher & Robin Evans to be identified as authors of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1998.

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means without the prior written permission of the publisher, nor be otherwise circulated in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser. Any person who does so may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages.

      Any views and opinions expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of Acorn Books or Andrews UK Limited.

      Introduction

      Welcome to Volume One of a three-volume special edition celebrating the 40th anniversary of the pioneering multimedia company Automata, founded in 1977. This first volume is a unique record of the illustrations and artwork created by the two blokes who were responsible for disrupting and corrupting an entire generation of magazine readers.

      Once upon a time, in the pre-digital world, a younger skinny man named Robin Evans came to the attention of an older skinny man named Mel Croucher. Both are neither now. Here’s how Mel and Robin remember it in their own words.

      Foreword by Mel Croucher

      Robin Evans was working as a washer-up in a holiday camp on the Isle Of Wight, which is a penal colony off the South coast of England. It was me who plucked him from obscurity, and kept him there. I remember that he carried a huge portfolio of unwashed artwork, which was full of top-heavy dames, windy dragons and priapic elves. We soon discovered we both had the same favourite word, gub."

      Robin cut a remarkable figure. He was a sort of spring-loaded automaton. His think speed was twice as fast as his talk speed, and his talk speed was very fast indeed. His words came out in short pants. Which is the title of this book. Sometimes his think speed would completely outrun his talk speed, at which point he had the tendency to topple over. Backwards. I never managed to catch him. But I liked him. I liked him even better when I discovered how cheap his rates were.

      I was publishing crummy travel guides and radio magazines at the time, and Robin Evans agreed to draw the cartoons and advertising artwork. Later, when I rented my soul to a load of proper publishers and went freelance, I just couldn’t shake him off. I’ve been stuck with him ever since. He’s defaced my book covers, record album sleeves, video games, in fact everything I get involved with, there he is. Spring-loaded, short pants, toppling over. Backwards.

      From our fist meeting it was obvious we were going to work together, and enjoy it very much. But I never imagined it would turn into a life-long professional partnership. One day I’ll tell him how much I love his glorious artwork. Not yet though."

      Mel Croucher,

      Southsea, Hampshire, 2017

      Mel then

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