Nicholas Gruen@NGruen1
Stan is consulted on many important topics
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1:25 AM · Dec 12, 2022
To recap …
And now for something a little different. Some of you who follow me on Twitter will have seen the tweet thread below. Just letting you know that I’ll be tweeting and (depending on feedback to this mailout) perhaps Substacking a kids book for adults that I created 25 years ago, one page at a time. Like an adent calendar.
Nicholas Gruen@NGruen1
THE ADVENT OF STAN
First some explanation
It was 1986
The cold war was grinding on
Kylie and Madonna were still 'trending' (though we didn't really use that word)
TVs' 'vertical hold' still went on the blink
One day a character and a cartoon popped into my mind
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2:56 AM · Dec 3, 2022
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Then I went part-time in my job and spent 1987 cartooning away. Stan had a creation experience
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2:56 AM · Dec 3, 2022
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Stan had a creativeness experience
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2:57 AM · Dec 3, 2022
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Stan grew in my mind and on the page
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2:57 AM · Dec 3, 2022
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Stan realised he should be more assertive
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2:57 AM · Dec 3, 2022
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Halley's comet came and went
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2:57 AM · Dec 3, 2022
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Oh and there were other cartoons
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2:57 AM · Dec 3, 2022
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About frogs and Hamlet and that kind of thing
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2:57 AM · Dec 3, 2022
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And flowers growing out of one's head (a moral panic of the time — along with nuclear armageddon …)
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2:57 AM · Dec 3, 2022
Nicholas Gruen@NGruen1
And then stan went on the blink.
So welcome to THE ADVENT OF STAN, my advent calendar for the 25th anniversary of the coming into the world of my (hitherto unpublished) cartoon story book
STAN GOES ON THE BLINK
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2:57 AM · Dec 3, 2022
Nicholas Gruen@NGruen1
As Stan awakes one morning from unsteady dreams, he finds that his vertical hold has gone COMPLETELY BUNG!
To be continued … (ie tomorrow, and the next day and so on)
Will things work out for our (mildly) anxious but (tentatively) opinionated hero?
Find out by Christmas!! 11/
2:57 AM · Dec 3, 2022
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Nicholas Gruen@NGruen1
Simple things, like eating, become a near impossibility
(What will happen? Will things turn out for Stan?
Or will he go from rack and ruin? What more could go wrong?
Find by Christmas by following this Advent Calendar Thread!!)
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5:36 AM · Dec 3, 2022
Nicholas Gruen@NGruen1
Washing up, a wasteland
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2:11 AM · Dec 4, 2022
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Shaking hands SHATTERING
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12:51 AM · Dec 5, 2022
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Toiletry TERRIFYING!!
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12:11 AM · Dec 6, 2022
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Stan retires that night, a tired, wrung out nervous WRECK! 16/
12:37 AM · Dec 7, 2022
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The next morning, while he is drying himself down, Stan’s horizontal hold begins to go
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12:26 AM · Dec 8, 2022
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Embarrassing situations abound
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12:37 AM · Dec 9, 2022
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Stan’s friends depart, leading to a number of "Captain Oates Moments"
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1:08 AM · Dec 10, 2022
Nicholas Gruen@NGruen1
The media invade
Stan becomes the object of mass interest, pity, disgust, indignation and apathy.
Many onlookers remain sceptical
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5:13 AM · Dec 11, 2022