Fanfiction 9/21/07

[scarfman]

Here are cartoons from the fanfiction sketchbook website since last Friday. Arthur, King of Time and Space cartoons in a seperate post.

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Thanks for reading.

Comments

[blinovitch.livejournal.com]

Is that last one based on My Father's Dragon? I remember the main character did much the same thing with alligators, lollipops and rubber bands.

[scarfman]

No, it's the famous Bridge of the Monkeys that no white man but John Dolittle had ever seen until now. I stopped into my childhood library and picked up the first five Dr. Dolittle books yesterday. I thought of the My Father's Dragon books too, but I couldn't remember the author's name and in any case I'd found what I came for.

[blinovitch.livejournal.com]

I was a Dolittle fiend for a while when I was younger. My own childhood library must not have had that one. They still had the one where the African prince wants to be white, though. Erk.

[scarfman]

It's the same book! The Story of Doctor Dolittle, the very first one published, in 1920. The bridge of monkeys is how the Doctor's crew escapes the prince's father's men on their way to the land of the monkeys.

The edition of Story I got from the library this week is from 1997. It's been edited so that the prince wants to be a lion instead of a white man. In the forward the editors say the book was allowed to go out of print because of that bit. If your library still has one of the older editions, maybe you should tell them it might be worth money. Maybe they can put it on eBay, and buy more books with the proceeds, such as the 1997 edition of Story.

[blinovitch.livejournal.com]

Actually, it was an omnibus reprint, IIRC. Even as a child, I was maddened by the fact the book was clearly skipping over whole chunks of a continuous narrative.