The Ancients
Joe BergerAh, so you've found us. Well then... I suppose you'd better come in.
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A rummage through the grab bag
Bags for life. Totes plastered with empty pablum (good word!). Long before the Ancients we did a Berger & Wyse cartoon in honour of such things…
I suppose these helpful sayings have a place - they’re less unequivocally horrid than the chum...
F.A.D.
Is it really a single day? I suspect it’s more that when a certain series of conditions occur, a flurry is triggered…. but I like that it’s become an annual ‘celebration’.
Any entomologists please do wade in.
Thanks for reading The Anci...
Second helpings
Biscuits feature regularly in The Ancients, and elsewhere in my work (more on that soon!). The panel in which the crone raises the biscuit to her nose is, I’m sure, inspired by my wife Charlotte’s habit of having a good sniff of such things...
Chummy Broccoli
I can’t bear food packaging that talks to you in the first person - I know, I know, I’m not the only one. As if someone somewhere has actually interviewed sticks of celery and found that they really want to be sliced into short lengths and...
Arrowhead again
A fairly oblique reference to online discord in this one - I suppose even mouse arrows are a bit obsolete these days. And ‘humour canisters’ - I wrote an artefact strip featuring those but it didn’t quite hit the right note; perhaps I’ll gi...
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Children's author, illustrator, print-maker, cartoonist, animator, and one half of Berger & Wyse; long time (until September 2021) cartoonists for the Guardian (jokes, not politics).
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