Great start to the Australian Open this morning for Andy Murray with a win against Nikoloz Basilashvili!

Show your support with our Clan Murray merch, see Clan Murray products here: https://bit.ly/clanmurray

With the new season of ‘The Real Housewives of Jersey’ making it’s debut we thought we’d make our own version! Please let us know, what do you think of Kartoon Faktory’s ‘Genuine Jersey’ version of Real Housewives?

From left: Mabel Le Marquand, Cora Coutanche, Bessie Blampied, Greta De Gruchy, Nicole Nicolle, Pearl Picot and Val Vautier

We don’t want to wish the weekend away, but we’re excited to be teaming up with Channel 103 for their ‘Marvellous Monday’ giveaway. Win £50 to spend at Kartoon Faktory on a range of our fabulously fun products!

Simply head over to the ‘Win’ section of the Channel 103 website to enter – the competition runs from today until Mon 6 Dec when the four winners will be picked live on air! Good luck!

This competition is now over. Thank you everyone who signed up!

Check out this great feature on Kartoon Faktory in the JEP!

Last week, Cameron and Oli got the chance to sit down with the JEP to tell them about KF, our humble beginnings and our ambitious plans for the future. Thank you for taking the time to sit with us Jersey Evening Post – we had a great time!

See the article here

Ready, set GO!

It’s Black Friday and we’re offering 20% OFF on all our orders until midnight tonight, so why not get started on buying your Christmas gifts from KartoonFaktory.com using code BLACKFRIDAY20 ! Be quick and don’t miss out!

Our brand new website and online store went live today. To celebrate, we’re running a special Launch Competition for one lucky KF follower to win an A4 print of their choice!

Here’s how to enter:

• Browse the website and look for the hidden Secret Santa 🎅🏻
• Click on the Santa and fill in your details to be entered into the draw

Competition ends midnight Tuesday 23rd November and a winner will be drawn the following day and announced on our social media pages!

Good luck and happy hunting!

With the fishing row raging on, “Don’t panic!”, have a laugh instead!

Happy International Artist Day! 🎨

Today celebrates the creativity of artists and their work. What better way to celebrate than to introduce you to our very own artist Oli. Oli has been with us since August 2012 and has been instrumental in creating our signature Kartoon Faktory look. Thank you Oli! 😃

As promised, more Wimbledon highlights.

Firstly, Pause Sue Barker, a poem written by the Bard of Grouville celebrating the day Andy beat Novak to win the Wimbledon title for the first time since the Big Bang.

PAUSE SUE BARKER
(Murray vs Djokovic : Wimbledon Men’s Final 7th July 2013)

Pause Sue Barker and get on your mobile phone,
Silence the dog’s barking with a big juicy bone;
Strike up the pipe band and with its big base drum,
Update the rankings to mark the outcome.

Planes circle, soar and twist overhead,
Scribbling in the sky that Novak has fled;
Tie tartan bows on yet another Cup,
On a day when Andy was clearly fired-up.

He binds our North, our South, our East and West,
Our two Wimbledon weeks without any rest;
Our game, our set, our match, our song,
The race is won and the sceptics wrong.

The stars paid tribute and sparkled as one;
The moon was unpacked and shone like the sun;
Doubters dumfounded and now everyone reckons,
The story’s so special that Hollywood beckons.

A few of Andrew’s most popular clips can be viewed below.

With the BBC’s Wimbledon reruns completed, it’s time to share Kartoon Faktory’s take on the SW19 and more specifically Clan Murray’s many adventures at the All England Club. Over the years I have been privileged to watch many of the Clan’s successes at close quarters and what a roller-coaster ride it has been.

To celebrate these successes, Kartoon Faktory has compiled an eclectic series of posts celebrating a few of the family’s  landmark moments.  Please enjoy the following:

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I WILL WIN FIVE HUNDRED GAMES

With the kind permission of The Proclaimers and their management.

A double celebration of Andy’s marriage to Kim and
the lad recently recording his 500th win on the ATP Tour.
When I wake up, well, I know I’m gonna be
I’m gonna be the man who wakes up next to you
When I yell ‘out’, yeah, I know I’m gonna be
The man who yells ‘out’ just for you.
If I don’t drink, well, I know I’m gonna be
I’m gonna be the man who won’t drink next to you
And if I haver, hey, I know I’m gonna be
I’m gonna be the man who’s havering just for you.

(Chorus)
But I will win five hundred games
And I will win five hundred more
Just to be the man who won a thousand games
To fall down at your door
When I’m playing, yes, I know I’m gonna be
I’m gonna be the man who’s playing hard for you
And when the money comes in for the work I do
I’ll pass almost every penny on to you
When I play well (when I play well), oh, I know I’m gonna be
I’m gonna be the man who plays well just for you
And when I vote Yes, well, I know I’m gonna be
I’m gonna be the man who’s voted Yes with you.

(Chorus)

Da lat da (da lat da), da lat da (da lat da)
Da-da-da dun-diddle un-diddle un-diddle uh da-da
Da lat da (da lat da), da lat da (da lat da)
Da-da-da dun-diddle un-diddle un-diddle uh da-da
When I’m winnin’, well, I know I’m gonna be
I’m gonna be the man who’s winnin’ beside you
And when I’m trainin’, well, I know I’m gonna train
I’m gonna train for the time when I’m with you
And when I serve well (when I serve well), yes, I know I’m gonna be
I’m gonna be the man who serves well just for you
And when I come home (when I come home), yes, I know I’m gonna be
I’m gonna be the man who comes back home with you
I’m gonna be the man who’s coming home with you

(Chorus)

Da lat da (da lat da), da lat da (da lat da)
Da-da-da dun-diddle un-diddle un-diddle uh da-da
Da lat da (da lat da), da lat da (da lat da)
Da-da-da dun-diddle un-diddle un-diddle uh da-da
Da lat da (da lat da), da lat da (da lat da)
Da-da-da dun-diddle un-diddle un-diddle uh da-da
Da lat da (da lat da), da lat da (da lat da)
Da-da-da dun-diddle un-diddle un-diddle uh da-da

(Chorus)

Lyrics by Cameron McPhail, arranged and sung by Frank Tausney, both of the Cesarean Tennis Club, Jersey

A TENNIS PLAYER

After Andy Stewart’s song of 1961 blockbuster, ‘A Scottish Soldier’. Believe it or not, his iconic song
spent 36 weeks in the UK Singles Chart and over a year in the American Billboard Top 50

There was a player, a tennis player
Who wandered far away and played so far away
There was none bolder, with good broad shoulder
He fought many’s a seed and fought and won
He’d seen the glory, he’s told the story
Of matches glorious and deeds victorious
But now he’s sighing, his heart is crying
To play these clay courts of “Paree”1

(Chorus)

Because those clay courts are not Perthshire courts
Orra Glasgow courts, they’re not his land’s courts
And fair as these clay courts may be
They are not the courts of home
But now this player, this tennis player
Who wandered far away and played so far away
Sees Kim is waiting, to end the dating
And fears her running away to Ingerland
He called his mother, his trusty mother
And bade her come to stay
In Cromlix House2 to pray
In the penthouse, the Cromlix penthouse
Far from those clay courts of Paree

(Chorus)

And now this player, this tennis player
Will wander far no more and play away no more
And in the Tappit Hen,3,4 Dunblane’s wee Tappit Hen
You’ll hear this player say, this player’s home
He’s seen the glory, he’s told the story
Of matches glorious and deeds victorious
All doubts have ceased now, he is at peace now
Close to those green hills by Dunblane

(Chorus x 2)

Lyrics by Cameron McPhail, arranged and sung by Frank Tausney (Both of the Cesarean Tennis Club, Jersey)

Background Notes

1. Curiously never at his best on this surface, Andy heads for France and the grueling clay
   court season almost immediately after he says “I do” in Dunblane Cathedral
2. Andy’s five star hotel near Dunblane
3. The Tappit Hen would be Andy’s local if he imbibed and ironically sits just across the road
   from the Cathedral where Kim and he are to marry on Saturday 11 April
4. Tappit Hen is a Scottish name for a pewter tankard, usually with a distinctive chicken like
   emblem on its lid