Western strips in UK comics

[steelclaw]

Not sure if the following few are especially good, but go and have a look at the story titles on my Wizard blog I'm sure their are a few more then this.

Thanks for those! I'm very familiar with your Wizard blog (though your ukcomicsarefun one is much more my kind of thing as it's so IPC-packed!) but it seemed to have trouble loading the last few times I went on - the covers were taking so long. I shall have another go soon, though.

I like the look of some of those strips.

Yeah I know what you mean it is a bit of pain waiting for the scans to download, I could have done it better.

[Lew Stringer]

Yeah I know what you mean it is a bit of pain waiting for the scans to download, I could have done it better.

What size are your scans? 72dpi is usually standard, and the resolution set at medium, with image size at 30cm at most.

I've noticed some scans on this forum are 150dpi and HUGE. I appreciate Photoshop is expensive but Photoshop Elements is about £65 (or was a while back) and that does the job as long as you don't work in CMYK. (Which you wouldn't need for online images anyway.)

Also, I'm not quite sure why you're using Photobucket as a site to divert to when you can upload your scans directly to Blogger when you write your blog?

Lew

[Peter Gray]

Some strips need to be a bit bigger so you can read it..

It is very good though Steel..
a lot of work went into that..

[steelclaw]

Yeah I know what you mean it is a bit of pain waiting for the scans to download, I could have done it better.

What size are your scans? 72dpi is usually standard, and the resolution set at medium, with image size at 30cm at most.

I've noticed some scans on this forum are 150dpi and HUGE. I appreciate Photoshop is expensive but Photoshop Elements is about £65 (or was a while back) and that does the job as long as you don't work in CMYK. (Which you wouldn't need for online images anyway.)

Also, I'm not quite sure why you're using Photobucket as a site to divert to when you can upload your scans directly to Blogger when you write your blog?

Lew

When I upload to Photobucket I don't have to resize when I transfer them to my comic blog so they can be read, while on the Wizard blog it was my first time and I made a bit of a mess of it.The scans on the Wizard blog are actually smaller then the scans on the comic blog but they take longer to download.

[Raven]

Having flicked through an early Sixties Swift annual today, I can now answer my own question about the beautifully drawn western strip starring the big-quiffed young cowboy in the 1972 Cor!! Holiday Special. It was indeed a reprint from Swift's Pony Express, drawn by Don Lawrence with names and some text changed. Very nice strip, worth seeking out.

[colcool007]

Just to wander off the beaten track a ways, does anyone know the second J T Edson book that featured an acknowledgment to the Victor? The first book is the Town Tamers, but no amount of searching seems to have found the second book. Can anyone help?

[Raven]

I don't think this one was mentioned in this thread - getting hold of some late 1979 Whizzer and Chips comics has reintroduced me to a bizarre western serial I'd forgotten: Sheriff Starr, in which the town of Bulletsville appoints boy circus performer Steve Starr as its new sheriff. His deputies? A gorilla and an elephant. It could happen. He also has his "unerring circus whip" to help him out. Obviously very whimsical - it's no Jonah Hex - it's very nicely drawn indeed, possibly by Teddy's Bear artist John Richardson?

It started in the 13th October issue. Does anyone know when it ended?

[Phoenix]

His deputies? A gorilla and an elephant. It could happen.

It already had in Thomsonland. Humpy was an extremely successful deputy when his master, Sawdust Charlie became sheriff in The Elephant Sheriff, and after the cowardly murder of gold miner Bart Masters and the theft of his hoard in The Six-Gun Gorilla, his gorilla companion, O'Neil, figured out how to strap on Bart's gun belt and cartridge bandolier and set off to make the four members of the Strawhan gang pay for their crime with only the scent of the killers to go on. His inevitable success was just as worthy as if he had been one of the most determined sheriffs or deputies in the region.

[Raven]

Ah, but Sheriff Starr had an elephant and a gorilla *together*, working side by side. This was how his genius manifested.