who is your favourite comic strip charachter
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Oor Willie and the Broons in the Sunday Post and Angus Og in the Record.The Scots here will all know these
Alba gu brath to you on St Andrews day my friend !
The perfect day for such a suggestion!
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Comic strips really never caught my fancy, except for maybe Prince Valiant. I was more of a fan of comic books which would be loaned back an forth between me and my friends. With a wide range of interests between us, we covered a ton of titles in the 70's and 80's. Some of the ones that I liked the best were Alien Legion (still have a few of those in the attic), The 'Nam, Savage Tales, X-Men, Weird War, and couple of others I'm forgetting right now.
peedee
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This seems to be a theme were my terminology has caused confusion.
in the UK When it was still called Great Britain, we had weekky paper comics which contained strip cartoon stories each of a couple of pages and with a collective title....'Hotspur' 'Valiant
At the same time in Liverpool there was a huge influx of DC and MARVEL superhero comic books coming in as Ships ballast of all things and sold for a few pence each.
To us they were all comics, and some were in the newspapers too.
Love your list thank you.
Paul
The Phantom - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Phantom which I thought was worldwide, but it appears not in the UK.
Ginger Meggs - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginger_Meggs an Australian comic strip first published in 1921 and still going today
There is also Saltbush Bill - a great favourite down under during the 1950's and 1960's
My version of PF doesn't allow me upload a Thumbnail so the images of the covers are below.
Cheers
Chris
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It's Prince Valiant and Leutenant Blueberry for me
theBaron
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You've reminded me of something else that I liked about those cartoons, as I got older and learned more about them and their context in our culture: Learning that they were made to be shown at the movies, along with the newsreel, and a short, before a main feature. Learning that took me a step beyond the idea that so many people had (and have) that "cartoons are just for kids".
And now I think about more recent cartoons--I was also a fan of "Ren & Stimpy" and "Samurai Jack'. I think both of them are both very well-done, each in its own way, from the style of animation, to the quality of the writing (R&S is just completely off-the-wall, while Jack contained homages to various other media, both animated and live-action).
I'm a fan of "The Venture Brothers", too, but they take so long to produce a season that I'll probably be dead by the time the next one comes out.
"Jonny Quest"-there was another one that I really enjoyed.
And not animation in the strict sense, but Supermarionation--I loved the Andersons' series, "Captain Scarlet" and "Thunderbirds", as well as their live-action series "UFO" and "Space: 1999"
Now I'm just rambling, as we old-timers do....
peedee
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Enjoying your ramblings.
Gerry Anderson 's work was the foundation for much of the sfx techniques used in star wars etc. Spellbinding in it's day,
(I'd watch it now), but with the graphic novel, comic book you can look back and look into detail that which flues by at 24 frames per sec and never see.
It's nice to read your memories man!
peedee
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Chris Ribchester
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For me got to be Dan Dare, pilot of the future and Luck of the Legion
peedee
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Were they both from the 'Eagle' Chris.
Have you seen the bronze bust of Dan Dartas a memorial to Dan Dare's illustrator outside the Civic Centre on Lord
Street ?
Paul.
Chris Ribchester
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Yes, both in Eagle and no , not seen the memorial, use to love the centres from the Eagle they had cut away views of everything, I kept them for years
then they went missing, no doubt got thrown out.
Another one i use to read every week was Braddock VC from the Rover I think it was.
Chris
Trigan Empire from Look & Learn mag great story loved it and of course General Jumbo
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peedee
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Here he is Chris outside the Atkinson
and still available in print too !
Vaguely remember Braddock VC. I must google him.
the cutaways were marvellous technical drawings
Paul
peedee
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Hey Ian look and learn books were fab, I got one every year as an annual I thinknthey were called?
Don't remember Trigon anything ....more googling fun.
Gen.Jumbo was just the best.
P
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Blake & Mortimer
Here represented on a wall in Brussels
Many heroes of Belgian/French comic strips are already existing in toy soldiers, like :
Tintin exist in various size, material, even in flat
Asterix by Pixi in metal
Spirou and his Turbotraction II
or the adventures of Alix
Or Gaston
Des Bleus et de Gris ( Of Blue and Grey )
It would take a volume of more then 1000 pages to make the inventory of Belgian Comic Strips and the figures edited,
Here represented on a wall in Brussels
Many heroes of Belgian/French comic strips are already existing in toy soldiers, like :
Tintin exist in various size, material, even in flat
Asterix by Pixi in metal
Spirou and his Turbotraction II
or the adventures of Alix
Or Gaston
Des Bleus et de Gris ( Of Blue and Grey )
It would take a volume of more then 1000 pages to make the inventory of Belgian Comic Strips and the figures edited,
