Anti-doping: the comic
Posted by MoreCoffeePlease on 14 Aug 2008 at 08:25 am | Tagged as: Current Events, Small people
Since Monday 4 August, visitors can find, every week, the latest instalment of an adventure featuring Rattus Holmes and Felis Watson, detective heroes of a comic strip against doping in sport, published by UNESCO in partnership with EDGE G3 Ltd.
Entitled “The Case of the Spoilsports”, this comic strip (in English, Spanish and French) dramatizes UNESCO’s role in the fight against doping and explores the importance of the International Convention against Doping in Sport, adopted by UNESCO’s member states in 2005.
This week, read Chapter 2: On the Case [PDF]: The Baker Street Kids learned that their hero was using performance enhancing drugs when he won an important bicycle race. They were so disappointed. Then a mysterious visitor came to see the famous detectives Rattus Holmes and Felis Watson…
I’m not sure what’s more pathetic here: that UNESCO is bothering to market to small children, or that it has to rip off Sherlock Holmes to do it. Can’t they come up with an original concept at least? Talk about performance enhancements…
The question for me is, who comes up with this stuff? I’ve worked in all kinds of environments and heard all kinds of stupid ideas, but have yet to be in a room where bureaucrats propose a comic book on doping featuring a thinly veiled Holmes or a web-only sci-fi novel featuring the latest in counter-terrorism techniques. What am I doing wrong?
I think you have to be part of a really big multinational for that level of stupidity. That or all alone and hiding under a rock…
What about Holmes’s notorious coke habit? Either these people haven’t read the books (sadly the more likely explanation) or there is a very devious subtext going on…
Oh, ha! I’d forgotten that little detail. It does add to the absurdity very nicely.
I think it is a great idea. What about Basil the great detective by Disney and Mickey Mouse as the great detective or Spielbergs Young Sherlock Holmes.
A great concept. Great timing