'Beggars' Belief!
Depending on idea/gag requirements, the appearence of the characters is sometimes tailored to fit the partickler situation: one of the main characters may win the State Lottery, for example, or at the other end of the 'social scale', be reduced to living as a tramp/hobo/down-and-out.
This storyline device is spanned out over three or four tiny frames, meaning easily-recognized symbols of opulence--or financial hardship-----must come to the fore. Thus, in good times, B.B., Jet, Vibes and Veronica can be seen in lush and tailored attire, and in bad times they are reduced to wearing rags and carrying that old cartoon cliche: the knotted hankie around with them as need be.
Comic-strips and fantasy is often about subverting accepted conventions and stereotypes, of course, and in the following cartoon we see three of the central figures down on their luck and downtrodden, but somehow have managed to overcome their poverty-stricken status and acquired a full-on Banquet Feast, depicted here very much in the accepted style so beloved of D.C.Thomson and others.
This storyline device is spanned out over three or four tiny frames, meaning easily-recognized symbols of opulence--or financial hardship-----must come to the fore. Thus, in good times, B.B., Jet, Vibes and Veronica can be seen in lush and tailored attire, and in bad times they are reduced to wearing rags and carrying that old cartoon cliche: the knotted hankie around with them as need be.
Comic-strips and fantasy is often about subverting accepted conventions and stereotypes, of course, and in the following cartoon we see three of the central figures down on their luck and downtrodden, but somehow have managed to overcome their poverty-stricken status and acquired a full-on Banquet Feast, depicted here very much in the accepted style so beloved of D.C.Thomson and others.
Original title of this cartoon: 'BEGGAR'S BANQUET'.
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