Shrinks! Ask Micallef! has been published as a re-formatted full page strip in this month’s Aussie MAD.
Note the top left corner of the cover… they’re pretty happy to have him, methinks! And here’s the page, below. Note that it sits next to Tom Richmond’s excellent Glee parody. Please click for a closer look…
Give it up for our latest Shrink: TV host and comedian Peter Berner!
Peter is best know for his role as host of the ABC’s Einstein Factor and his own Backberner, well as appearing on many shows such as Channel 10′s ‘20 to 1′ and Good News Week.
And our question comes from the talented Ben Hutchings! Ben is a Melbourne comic artist, and you can see some of his work at hutcho.wordpress.com
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We’re always after readers’ questions! Please send in your dilemmas to questions@shrinkscomic.com – and send a photo too if you’d like to be drawn!
Our newest Shrink is the very funny Mikey Robins, who gained fame as a breakfast radio broadcaster on Triple J before moving to Triple M and Vega, and resides as one of the regular team on the excellent long-running TV show Good News Week.
Mikey was kind enough to answer a couple more questions, so look out for more in the near future.
Want to be a part of the Shrinks! project? Send in your moral, personal or social dilemmas to questions@shrinkscomic.com . Please send your name and location, plus a few decent photos of yourself if you’d like to be drawn into the strip.
It gives me great pleasure to announce this week’s Shrinks! strip, written by Shaun Micallef.
Shaun has done a lot of brilliant TV comedy over the years, including Full Frontal, Thank God You’re Here, his own The Micallef Program and Newstopia… plus, of course,the top-rating Channel 10 show Talking ‘Bout Your Generation that has made him a household name.
Our newest Shrink is Lliam Amor, a very funny writer who has done a lot of impro and TV work, including on Shaun Micallef’s The Micallef Program and Channel 10′s Thank God You’re Here.
And you can read more of Mr. Amor’s musings on his blog.
As always, we need more questions. So please send in your dilemmas to questions@shrinkscomic.com – and send a photo too if you’d like to be drawn!
In this instalment TV comedy writer and cartoonist Tom Gammill lets us in on the solution to that infernal shared arm rest dilemma. Gammill writes for Saturday Night Live, The Simpsons and Seinfeld, as well as drawing his comic strip, The Doozies. And if that’s not enough, he produces some very funny videos. Do check out his Learn to Draw With Tom Gammill series!
Here we have our second instalment from the brilliant mind of offbeat comedian, Flacco. I had to edit his answer a little to fit the comic strip format, so I present the full answer, below.
Wait a minute…I smell a rat….Ah ha! There it is, it’s the fourth word in that panel.
Freya, I would be glad to respond to your humble query (and being a humble queerie myself who better qualifies for the task? After all, I come from a long line of inquiry)
Firstly, just how does this rodent keep you up at night? Does it snore? If so, why is the rats snore within earshot? Am I to conclude that you may be sleeping with this fine-nosed, black-eyed, lower order mammal? If this is the case, and the snoring does not cease when you nudge your strange bedfellow, simply insist it sleep on the couch.
If it is not the snoring that is disturbing your slumber then it would be best to let sleeping dogs lie (Because if you wake them they might eat the rat).
All relationships require work Freya, but if you wish to take this one to the next level, you will need patience, understanding and a lot of cheese.
As for the opines of your fellow townsfolk, in small communities like yours when it comes to mixed relationships feelings can run high, but rats can run higher…
In closing, one would be wise to remember the apothegm – A plague of one does not a pestilence make. (If you can’t remember that and you don’t know what apothegm mean, I would suggest you choose a less cognitively perspicacious genus to settle down with. I’m told bed lice are quite good in the sack?)
RAT FACT: Rats do not have a gag reflex – So feel free to share this with your rodent.
The concept is simple. Send in a question that you would like answered – a personal, social, or moral dilemma. Our celebrity will answer you, and I will illustrate the whole thing. If you send in a photo you will get caricatured, too! Send in your questions to questions@shrinkscomic.com
Welcome to the first Shrinks! strip. Special thanks to Jason Chatfield and Ash Kinchin for being my guinea pigs.
The concept is simple. Send in a question that you would like answered. Our celebrity will answer you, and I will illustrate the whole thing. If you send in a photo you will get caricatured, too! Send in your questions to questions@shrinkscomic.com