Dom Robinson interviews
Jon Link and Mick Bunnage
Channel 4 DVD
Modern Toss Series 1: 
The Modern Toss Guide To Work:
Another Book featuring Mister Tourette:
Modern Toss, released on November 26th 2007 for £19.99 is an animated sketch show featuring characters such as Barney, a man who periodically turns into a red Incredible Hulk-like monster, Gnat Burglar is a giant gnat which sucks the entire contents out of things and injects it into other things, Mr Tourette – a French signwriter who produces offensive signs bearing no relation to his customers’ instructions and Alan, a sociopathic, scribble-like creature who plays extreme practical jokes on his middle-class brother-in-law which always end in calamity.
Modern Toss also began as a series of booklets and books before moving to TV.
Please note, as it reflects the TV series, this interview contains strong language.
- We are Jon and Mick, we write and draw all the modern toss cartoons, and then ask animators to make them move.
- Other people got fed up employing us, so we ended up having to work for ourselves. We found a gap in the market where no-one would publish our cartoons, so we published them ourselves. It’s just a load of cartoons arguing with each other.
- They’re all invented to match different moods we get into, if we feel like smashing up a dinner table we’d probably turn to Alan. On the other hand if you felt like sucking all the blood out of a cow we’d turn to Gnat Burglar.
- They did all have to be paid but luckily a few of them liked it already. Our main contributor is Simon Greenall, who can speak convincing gibberish for anything up to 6 hours.
- It was a golden opportunity to fuck something up on a much bigger scale, and working out what all the characters sounded like and what walks they had.
- Yeah, they also beeped out the word “cunt”. Unfortunately the word “cunt” is one of the lodestones of the Modern Toss concept.
- We’d like to see them join forces and gatecrash an episode of Heartbeat and then maybe drag a big fucking tree through Nick Berry’s police station while Bacon pummels the assistant to a pulp.
- Well, you’ve got ten to be getting on with. How many more do you want?
- 2nd TV series in January 2008, two new books this Christmas and a new free Brighton based celebrity magazine coming out in Spring ’08, called “Brighton’s Biggest Cunts”.
- Cheers.
More info about the Modern Toss concept can be found at Wikipedia.
Review copyright © Dominic Robinson, 2007.
Reviewer of movies, videogames and music since 1994. Aortic valve operation survivor from the same year. Running DVDfever.co.uk since 2000. Nobel Peace Prize winner 2021.