Early Beginnings

Hello. I'm Scott Taylor and this is my first ever blog on the subject of cartoons, more specifically the cartoons that I have personally created out of my weird, twisted mind for the past twenty odd years LOL. In fact I recently spent a whole day going through my dad's attic searching for most the material that I'd worked on back when I was in my early 20s (yeah, I know, a long time ago right? 😆). I have loads of comic strips which I did when I was at school too, though sadly their whereabouts persist to elude me...for the moment!

   

One of the most prominent projects I worked on back in 1997 was a wacky-looking group of super heroes called the Totally Freaky Trash Commandos. A project I have only recently began to work on again. I say that this work was/is the most prominent of all my creations since, back in 1997 The Totally Freaky Trash Commandos were actually sent to Classic Printers in Crowland to be manufactured into a story book as well as a colouring book. granted I was rather new at the game and I didn't have the benefits of social media back then to quite make the books sell. I must have had several hundred of these story books printed which eventually took up room permanently in my parent's house before my dad finally decided to either bin them, build a bonfire of books, or take them down to the nearest Heart Foundation Shop. I just couldn't sell a copy for toffee. Oh well, we learn from our mistakes. 

Anyway, there will be more about the crazy and wacky world of the Totally Freaky Trash Commandos later.       

One of the other projects I worked on before TFTC was a group of heroes called the Smokie Bears. Yeah I know, sounds like something out of a 70s car chase movie. This was an early period of my creativity when I was probably deriving too much and gaining far too much inspiration from TV sauces. For example, I'm certain many of you who grew up in the 80s will recognise the jump suits and two of the hairstyles in the picture above. Looks like they should be out busting ghosts LOL! I think that if I ever revisited the Smokie Bears they'd have to be given totally new looks. 

More about these characters later.    

Another thing I tried was attempt a 3 framed news paper type of comic strip featuring a variety of delightful characters, namely one called Dare Devil Duck. Though like I mentioned above, I did more comic strips when I was at school. One was inspired by Sherlock Holmes and had a bit of Danger Mouse type humour thrown in. I called it Inspector Hops and it was about a cartoon rabbit sleuth with a deer stalker hat and a magnifying glass. He even turned into a super hero to make things even more incredible and bizarre. Amazing the sort of stuff that can be conjured out of the mind of a child. Anyway, back when I was at school I remember having a small portrait, A4 sized comic book mass produced on the school's photo copier, bound together with staples and sold to fellow students as a school project. I must have sold a few at 10 or 20 pence a copy. I was over the moon with the amount of people who bought one off me.

I had a whole pile of these comic strips. I've turned the house upside down trying to find them. Who knows, maybe they'll turn up.

Anyway, I hope you enjoyed reading my blog so far. More Toons and pictures to come and please like and subscribe. Thank you.