Post #634 by kahukini on Fri, Apr 12, 2002 5:30 AM

I don't have any prob. with shag becoming a brand, much like any Disney franchise...
Wouldn't a shag cartoon series where the characters in his paintings come to life be grand? They could call the show Supersonic Swingers, it would air on Fox, and before you know it teenage girls would be wearing long skirts again and grade school kids would be stashing martini glasses in their lunch pails, and everybody would rediscover the TRUTH about smoking: Enjoy life before you die, it could be tomorrow. The most important thing about Shag's characters seems to be their mysteriousness - they are clearly intelligent and deeply consider the world about them before it softens into an alcoholic haze. Today the "characters" in every other creative medium seem to embody predictability and vacuousness... Celebrating Shag is dissing people you can read like a book, which is to say most of the beer swilling masses.