At the risk of making myself unpopular I never really saw the relationship between Story papers and comics. Yes, some of the characters that appeared in comics origianlly started in storypapers, but no more so than they did from Radio, Pulps, TV, Films, Books and other media. Storypapers seem to have more in common with current magazines such as People's Friend than they do with comics.
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Story Papers - little connection to comics?
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Re: Story Papers - little connection to comics?
As I started as a Victor reader, there were always a mix of the text and the illustrated strip, so I can see the relationship as comics were intended as a throwaway medium (I can see the pain on many faces already, mine included, at those two words) and it was always a way of increasing reading skills without having to seem educational IMHO.Earl wrote:At the risk of making myself unpopular I never really saw the relationship between Story papers and comics.Earl.
An interesting point that last one as the Judge Dredd Megazine has recently begun to bring back the story as a feature. Which to me indicates that the cycle has come full circle. Many comics dropped the story as it appeared to be unpopular when competing with the illustrated strip.Earl wrote:Yes, some of the characters that appeared in comics origianlly started in storypapers, but no more so than they did from Radio, Pulps, TV, Films, Books and other media. Storypapers seem to have more in common with current magazines such as People's Friend than they do with comics.
Earl.
While my imagination could take many characters off the page and go into flights of fancy, nothing could compare, for me, when I saw the next instalment illustrated by that really great drawing bloke. Now 30 years on (Is it really that long ago?) I take great pride in being able to name the artist whether it was Denis McLoughlin, Carlos Ezquerra. Cam Kennedy or Ian Kennedy to name but a very very few.
Earl, good discussion point to raise. Hopefully more opinions will be forthcoming without descent into "sucks boo" country!
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An old post i appreciate, but there was only 2-3 text stories in the Meg before the reader's protests grew too loud and they where dropped, along with everything remotely intresting that wasn't comic and got replaced by terrible film reviews, quite remarkably unfunny "top twenty" comedy articles, and more recently a totally pointless filler article on cop shows (nice to see this british sci-fi magazine FINALLY realise Life On Mars existed though) and a frankly insulting article on "Torture porn" that wouldnt have looked out of place in the daily mail...An interesting point that last one as the Judge Dredd Megazine has recently begun to bring back the story as a feature. Which to me indicates that the cycle has come full circle. Many comics dropped the story as it appeared to be unpopular when competing with the illustrated strip.
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From what i have read, while not exactly "stories", things such as the Dandy now have more written words and articles than comics, these children are becoming too intelligent for thier own good. We need to get them looking at pretty pictures and being unable to read big words again, or you know what will happen? "Kids Rule O.K" from Action, and nobody wants that!