So, there once was a book; so vast was it's coverage of all things Goon in Sussex that its mere title spread wonder and amazement across the known gooniverse, written by Les Drew, it was - "Goontime In Sussex" and at only £9.99 it sold the length & longth of the known world, well as far as East Acton anyway; and although it contained some of the best loved anecdotes, letters, photographs, reports, memories and general goings-on of the Sussex Group since its inception in 1986, it could not do justice to the one thing that Sussex Members were becoming very good at, ie; the home-grown scripts…

You see, the thing is with a goon show script, they are usually ten or eleven pages long, and as there were almost a dozen of them the space needed to fit each one into the Book would have been enormous. As it was we were already up to 100 pages, so a compromise was sought. I contacted our resident artist Phil to produce some little cartoons to conjure up a sense of what each show might have been about. Hence, the Sussex Cartoons were born, and here they are...