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- 09 Jul 2011, 19:20
- Forum: General comics discussion
- Topic: Belgian and French kids' comics
- Replies: 36
- Views: 6581
Re: Belgian and French kids' comics
Thompson and Thomson (who are emphatically NOT twins- I blame that dodgy '80s pop group for popularising that misconception! I mean they have different surnames), were not British, no. As R Moubert points out above, their original names are Dupont and Dupond. Though admittedly they look and act Brit...
- 09 Jul 2011, 08:47
- Forum: General comics discussion
- Topic: Belgian and French kids' comics
- Replies: 36
- Views: 6581
Re: Belgian and French kids' comics
Oh, OK! In fact, as far as Captain Haddock goes, I think I can answer my own question. The Captain was first introduced as a minor character in "The Crab with the Golden Claws" and Hergé had no notion initially of making him a main character. Like the other recurring characters in Tintin, he simply ...
- 08 Jul 2011, 19:23
- Forum: General comics discussion
- Topic: Need help finding early 70s comic
- Replies: 24
- Views: 4134
Re: Need help finding early 70s comic
As reprinted in the Cor!! Annual 1975:
- 08 Jul 2011, 19:19
- Forum: General comics discussion
- Topic: Belgian and French kids' comics
- Replies: 36
- Views: 6581
Re: Belgian and French kids' comics
Wow, Phil, those are amazing finds. The 1940 one for its timing and the 1918 one for its great beauty. David: yes, "Britons Never Never Never Shall Be Slaves" is the Asterix translation I read about in the Gifford book. I'm surprised and slightly shocked it lasted so long, as it seems wrong for Aste...
- 07 Jul 2011, 22:33
- Forum: General comics discussion
- Topic: Belgian and French kids' comics
- Replies: 36
- Views: 6581
Belgian and French kids' comics
How about a thread about our Gallic near neighbours? Here are some connections I can think of between their children's comics and ours: Belgium's Spirou , like our own Beano,is a weekly comic that first came out in 1938 and is still going. Neither comic came up with probably their most famous charac...
- 03 Jul 2011, 20:21
- Forum: Artwork, artists and writers
- Topic: Whoever heard of Geoff Jones?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 12682
Re: Whoever heard of Geoff Jones?
That cover reminds me of books by Mitsumasa Anno.http://looky.wordpress.com/2008/10/06/annos-journey/
But no, I've never heard of Geoff Jones, very intrigued to hear more.
But no, I've never heard of Geoff Jones, very intrigued to hear more.
- 29 Jun 2011, 21:30
- Forum: Beano
- Topic: Beano Annual centre sections
- Replies: 16
- Views: 27704
Re: Beano Annual centre sections
Here's Lord Dennis from that 32nd Julember issue.
did you enjoy that? If so you were at odds with the rest of the country:
did you enjoy that? If so you were at odds with the rest of the country:
- 28 Jun 2011, 20:11
- Forum: Beano
- Topic: Beano Annual centre sections
- Replies: 16
- Views: 27704
Re: Beano Annual centre sections
OK, I've got the annuals down, and it turns out that this tradition is far more exciting in my head that in reality most years (in my collection anyway). As will be seen, usually it was just a spotlighted character, one of the big four. 1968 The Bash Street Kids edit the Beano. Main story drawn by G...
- 28 Jun 2011, 00:44
- Forum: General comics discussion
- Topic: Lets give Lew a better send off...leave your kind words here
- Replies: 19
- Views: 3412
Re: Lets give Lew a better send off...leave your kind words
Lew is an excellent person, debater, cartoonist, and knowledgeable source. He has enhanced this forum incalculably. Life's too short to require anyone's participation in any particular internet site, when we have our life's work to achieve, but I heartily echo what everyone else has said already.
- 27 Jun 2011, 19:05
- Forum: Beano
- Topic: Beano Annual centre sections
- Replies: 16
- Views: 27704
Re: Beano Annual centre sections
Excellent example, Johnny! I have that annual and I'd forgotten all about it. Got it down this morning and it's a vintage middle-sixteen for sure. There's lots of pretty sophisticated gags in there for a kids' comic. Apart from the brillaint title "The Old Pretender", elsewhere in the annual Queen V...
- 26 Jun 2011, 18:17
- Forum: Beano
- Topic: Beano Annual centre sections
- Replies: 16
- Views: 27704
Beano Annual centre sections
If this hasn't already been done, here's an idea for a thread, or perhaps a section on the website when it's back to full strength. The Beano Annual used to have something special in the middle 16 pages (page 65-80). E.G. in the 1968 book the Bash Street Kids edited an issue of the Beano and get it ...
- 15 Jun 2011, 15:14
- Forum: General comics discussion
- Topic: Out of character fun in comics...and surprises!!
- Replies: 15
- Views: 2864
Re: Out of character fun in comics...and surprises!!
"Dinah Mite" appears in the Dandy Annuals 1970 and 1971, so presumably was a late 1960s Dandy strip. I've often wondered about it- It's clearly an earlier run of Dinah Mo under a slightly different name (Same character, same look). Why they changed the name when they briought her back in the 1980s I...
- 08 Jun 2011, 18:35
- Forum: Beano
- Topic: 1998-2003 : A transition period for the Beano?
- Replies: 46
- Views: 18653
Re: 1998-2003 : A transition period for the Beano?
Also, Swirlything hasn't explained why the dropping of a comic strip was "ideologically" motivated. Were there hidden Marxist messages in Ivy the Terrible scripts?
EDIT: I'd just like to say this post was intended as good humoured silliness and in no way intended to escalate ill-feeling.
EDIT: I'd just like to say this post was intended as good humoured silliness and in no way intended to escalate ill-feeling.
- 05 Jun 2011, 13:29
- Forum: Beano
- Topic: Beano summer special number 1 out now WHSmiths
- Replies: 139
- Views: 46835
Re: Beano summer special number 1 out now WHSmiths
:offtopic1: Lew, in that old blog post about Charlie Grigg you mention he retired from regular comics work in 1983. This is interesting as his Korky the Cat was still appearing when I started getting the Dandy in 1986 (shortly before Robert Nixon's takeover- an awful choice in my opinion). Were thes...
- 24 May 2011, 19:25
- Forum: General comics discussion
- Topic: Comic characters merging..
- Replies: 55
- Views: 31738
Re: Comic characters merging..
Hot Shot Hamish and Mighty Mouse, when Tiger was absorbed by Roy of the Rovers weekly. An excellent team-up. I'm sure there are other notable examples in the back of my mind! tiger merged into eagle not roy of the rovers even though it may as well have as hot shot hamish went into rotr billys boots...