One of Scotland’s favourite comedy double-acts will make the jump from stage to page as their hit TV series returns as a comic book. Still Game’s main characters Jack Jarvis and Victor McDaid are to star in He Who Hingith Aboot Getteth Hee Haw, featuring cartoon versions of the cast. The TV show ran for nine seasons between 2002 and 2019, with a hiatus in between.
It also sold out three multi-date live productions at the Hydro in Glasgow, performing to a total of around 500,000 people across 50 shows from 2014 to 2019. A page from the book, which re-imagines Still Game episode Cauld in cartoon form (Ford Kiernan and Greg Hemphill/PA) Hemphill said: “We still love Jack and Victor, and Ford and I are still always talking about them. “It occurred to us that we had never seen them in cartoon form, never really explored that as an art form.
“That’s where Gordon and the Scunnered Ink team came in. Ford Kiernan, left, and Greg Hemphill, right, with Gordon Tait of Scunnered Ink (Wattie Cheung/PA) “Working with Gordon and his team on the comics was like seeing Still Game with fresh eyes. The results are super-exciting, the new version of the characters look adorable.
And we don’t have to spend an hour and a half in the make-up chair.” Kiernan said: “Greg and I are huge fans of things like Oor Wullie. Greg has a Marvel connection and has always collected comics.
“Gordon has taken our idea to see Jack and Victor and all the Still Game gang in comic book form, and t.