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Tackle Cricket

This is a rather timely redraw: In Australia, the rugby season has come & gone, and now we are waiting for the cricket season to begin in earnest. It’s also the first bartoon which didn’t come from a scan of a pencil-&-paper sketch – both the sketch and inks were done digitally. I see the idea behind this cartoon as not only a hopefully amusing mash-up of Australia’s two main sports seasons, but as representing something akin to Futurama’s Blernsball, which takes a regular sport and makes it almost anarchic by throwing in all sorts of wacky ingredients (“Multiball!”). Who knows? It might also be the only way Americans will ever get interested in cricket…

Tackle Cricket 1997

The 1997 original

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