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The Western Nostril
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The Western Nostril is s a gag cartoon created by brothers Patrick and Alex Latimer. It is regularly published tuesdays through fridays in the South African Business Day newspaper since February 5, 2008, it takes the reader into the surreal life of two friends: Finbar and the colander wearing Osteus. Creators The brothers brainstorm ideas separately, meet up and decide on the best ideas to take forward. Alex, the writer creates a workable script and Patrick draws the panel, The editor of the Business Day, Peter Bruce, was reviewing Patrick's online illustration portfolio and stumbled onto the cartoons on the site. The brothers were then approached and signed on to produce a cartoon 4 days a week for the Business Day newspaper. Launched in print February 5, 2008 the cartoon has continued it's success and the brothers have published 2 collections of cartoons. The title "The Western Nostril" refers to idea that everybody has a western nostril: your right nostril is your western nostril. Humour The humour is clean, sharp & witty.<ref name="nose"/> It relies on a play of words for the punchline. The cartoon's focus on wordplay and shun social or political commentary. Although the humour is distinctively english, it has got a large non-english first language following because of its use of english idioms. This has resulted in the cartoons even being used in english courses to illustrate various parts of english grammar. (reference!) List of publications # The Western Nostril Volume 1 # The Western Nostril Volume 2 See Also
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