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For The Fence: How My Dad Poisoned Himself Making Spitting Image Puppets

Posted On June 8, 2022 By jadeangelesfitton In Art, Articles, Culture /  

For this piece for The Fence I asked my dad to cast his mind back 40-odd years to one of the many weird and chaotic occurrences of his special effects career that spanned the 1970s-2010s and was extremely (and almost exclusively) weird and chaotic. This is how he poisoned himself while making the prototypes for the original Spitting Image… CLICK HERE.

Illustration by Viz cartoonist Davie Jones.

 

 

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1 Comment

  1. Imogen Stead
    June 8, 2022 at 1:47 pm

    Such an interesting story, I loved Spitting Image. I hope your dad made a full recovery ?

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