A FISTFULL OF FLAVOUR

The above was the slogan for a Watneys Red Barrel beer commercial of about 1960 - funny how these things stick.  Sailors were symbols of freedom, carefree, jollity.  Talking of stock characters, they were useful on two levels.  'Round the Horne's' Julian and Sandy were, to the kiddies, simply funny people - camp, but children didn't know about that sort of thing.  Funny how downright filthy that show was, on listening again, but in code.  ?Magic Roundabout's Dylan?  Forget about secret drug messages, the beatnik, coffe bars, reefers, maybe even sex, was another stock character.  As for Dougal's trip into the land of sugar lumps, well, the writers had to write and the references were in the air.  Anyway, the advert was a stimulus for a sequence, some fun.  First Class Beer! (as per final line)

What am I?

I am an originator, an inventor of ideas and themes. I find that I am adding, bit by bit, to several stories, scenarios, such as the 19th century (girl runs away and joins the army - see Nadezhda Durovna's 'Memoirs of a Cavalry Maiden'), bohemian life in a society under censorship (Salzar's Portugal and pre-Sixties Britain both), and Feltham Willis (genius inventor i.e. Barnes Wallis, in the first BD artwork a victim of kidnap, but now I think he could be aquite charmless protagonist, secret agent needing a sidekick to point up the situation). The last is cold-war-ish, and is sprouting aliens. Anyway, themes are one thing, but I need a writer, or co-operator, to work with me to make sense of these, discipline them, flesh them out, whatever. My one-shot cartoons can grow- A Nossa Senhora de Descanso, for instance, spawned a trio of madonnas, raiding the church charity-box after hours for goodies. Imagine the gossip... So, I'd welcome any interest on the part of a writer or such, to take these ideas toward comics, animation or film. Thanks.