The Back Entry Diddlers were a favourite of mine. They were in the local paper, The Liverpool Echo.
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Posts: 6354 (Fri, 9-Sep-05 19:23:27) Super Turnip |
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pompeystato |
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Posts: 10 (Sun, 18-Sep-05 14:14:03) |
I, too, was brought up in the late 40's and my first introduction to art was the Cartoon Strips in our morning paper. My parents got the 'Sketch' (right up to its takeover) and the 'Mirror'.
Buck Ryan, Jane and Garth were my favourites. I always read them before reading the rest. I see that Dick Tracy and Modesty Blaise were mentioned in an earlier post. These can be read on the internet from an American comic strip site;- www.ucomics.com/dicktracy/ Unfortunately, Modesty Blaise is only the Spanish version Buck Ryan, the private investigator and my favourite was first started in Australia and was taken up by the 'Mirror' just before the WW2 started. I would love to see it again. I'm always trawling the net for info on anything on it. |
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Posts: 19124 (Tue, 20-Sep-05 10:45:07) Moperator |
A big Whirligig
 to this site pompeystato.Musicooluk has a couple of Daily Mirrors from the mid 40's which include Buck Ryan strips. I am sure that if he reads this he will include a scan here just for you. You will see what I am on about if you look at the Toby Twirl thread lower down this page. Seeing that you are a web trawler, you are probably already aware of this site - www.lambiek.net/monk_jack.htm Jim |
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Posts: 2 (Fri, 23-Sep-05 13:01:37) |
I, too, was a Garth reader - came in on the series as he was fighting the beast of Belial with the help of Astra (their first encounter, I think). But how about Jeff Hawke in the Express.
Until Frank Bellamy took over the Garth artwork, Jeff Hawke was by far the best drawn strip in any paper. Ah, the golden years! |
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Posts: 5803 (Fri, 23-Sep-05 14:55:01) Super Turnip |
Several years ago, as a student, I was doing some research into the Groundnut Scheme, a political initiative which I have mentioned before in passing on one of these boards. The work necessitated delving through newspapers of the time which, you will recall, was 1947.
I happened to uncover a batch of Daily Mirrors from that year and the following year. Being curious and not averse to a little recreation, I scanned the comic strip pages and focused especially on Garth. Well, not exactly on Garth but on his girl friend at the time, a lovely lady called Dawn. Unfortunately for Dawn, she seemed to be at the mercy of a giant spider which had her encased in his net and was, presumably, preparing to devour her. Thankfully, and predictably, Garth arrived in time to rescue her and all turned out well. It transpired on further investigation on my part that there had been a complete story line about these dreaded giant spiders. Then it was time for me to get back to the Groundnut Scheme and to dusty old pages of The Times! |
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Latavra |
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Posts: 2 (Fri, 23-Sep-05 15:20:06) |
I knew there was another Daily Mirror regular - and it's just come back to mind: Romeo Jones! And what about the Old Codgers? I think they wrote a column called Live Letters. Remember them, Bloodnok?
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Posts: 1014 (Sat, 24-Sep-05 15:38:02) Super Turnip |
Brian McConnell the journalist who was shot while trying to protect Princess Anne, worked as an Old Codger for a while.
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pompeystato |
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Posts: 10 (Thu, 3-Nov-05 20:19:07) |
To re-visit the subject of Modesty Blaise, I've just come across a book of reproduction comic strips of Modesty Blaise in my local library.
There are currently five books in the series, published by Titan Books and are copies of the earlies between 1963 and 1970. The series ended in newspaper form in 2001. They started in the 'London Evening Standard' in 1963 and were later taken up by 'The Sun' to replace a similar strip called Axa. The books are full of stats and info about the strip, also comments by the writer of the series, Peter O'Donnell, making a fascinating read. The book publishers have a very interesting website illustrating all the books and comics they produce at:- www.titanbooks.com And you're right Jimbo, I've clocked that site you mentioned a while back. A mention was made of a western strip called 'Matt Marriott' which I also loved to read but forgot about til now  |
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Posts: 5803 (Thu, 3-Nov-05 21:37:34) Super Turnip |
Thank you for the information about the Modesty Blaise books Pompeystato. I might have been the one to introduce that character to this thread. It seems some little time ago. I was aware of one of the books but, as you mention there are more, I'll visit their website. Thanks again. Modesty Blaise was a 'special' character!
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librarian466 |
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Posts: 1014 (Mon, 14-Nov-05 23:39:49) Super Turnip |
Ian Gammidge of the Daily Mirror has recently passed on. Ian was responsible for quite a few of the scripts for the papers cartoon strips including Ruggles, Jane, The Flutters and The Larks. He also had a regular cartoon spot in the Sunday Mirror. If those were still there I might even buy the paper.
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Posts: 11133 (Tue, 15-Nov-05 20:45:12) Super Turnip |
Thanks for that snippet of information 'librarian' about Ian Gammidge. With his passing goes the passing of another aspect of my childhood and early youth. As you will see from the earlier postings,under this topic headline I was an avid follower of the cartoon strips that Gammidge drew along with other classic Mirror strips. Ah Happy Days !
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Posts: 20 (Sat, 16-Feb-08 16:09:04) |
Can remember reading Rip Kirby in the Daily Mail. There was also Carol Day.
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Posts: 2601 (Sat, 16-Feb-08 18:07:34) Super Turnip |
Captain Billy Bee in the London Evening News......
Tug Transom........... |
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Posts: 223 (Sun, 17-Feb-08 00:35:17) |
I lived in London in the mid 1970's and would get the Evening Standard every afternoon on my way home from work. The first thing I would turn to was the Bristow comic strip. I loved that, how many other strips have ever had a striped-trousered city gent for a hero? Not too many I'd wager. I remember his favourite place to go to for his "hols" was Funboys sur la Plage. I wonder if it's still running? Can't recall the name of the cartoonist. Help...
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Posts: 2601 (Sun, 17-Feb-08 11:30:13) Super Turnip |
 Frank ceased doing Bristow in 2001.......remember that damn pigeon? http://www.frankdickens.com/ |
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Posts: 5731 (Sun, 8-Jun-08 23:04:23) Super Turnip |
And nobody's mentioned Rufus and Flook from the Daily Mail. Loved them and the villainous Moses Maggot and his side kick Bodger. I used to have a book -
long gone which contained the first Rufus strips when Flook arrived from prehistoric times and Rufus was still at school where the headmaster (Dr Beebe, I
think) was trying to invent the square bubble. Bodger was the school bully boy back then
Oh Christmas !! I just found this on the net. Gonna cry my eyes out now. What did I do with the damned book! "Rufus and Flook at School" 1951 1st ed Nice covers with a trace of edge wear. £250 |
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Posts: 8844 (Wed, 11-Jun-08 20:51:07) Super Turnip |
Ossie, I think Flook has been mentioned in dipatches quite a few times. Not sure what thread but pretty certain it may have got a mention on the death of
George Melly, because he once co wrote it with Wally Fawkes the jazzman.
PS. Flook was still there in the early sixties because I used to scan through the newspapers in my public library then and I remember reading it. (The actual pen name of the artist was "Trog".) I also once asked about a cartoon which used to appear regularly in the Sunday Mirror in the late sixties, early seventies - Gammidges Bargain Basement. Sadly nobody remembered it, or at least there was no response. I now see him mentioned in prior posts above.
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Posts: 4 (Mon, 25-Aug-08 08:21:03) |
I've recently aquired an old Daily Mirror dated Sat.9th Feb. 1952.
This was three days after the last King's death and the headlines are about the official proclamation of the new Queen to the throne. There was only 12 pages to it - must have still been a shortage of paper. On page 2 was the strip "Ruggles" and page 4 it was "Pip, Squeak and Wilfred." Next on page 5 was "Jane" and "Useless Eustace" but Page 9 was, from the top, "Buck Ryan", "Just Jake", "Belinda", "Garth", "Jimpy" and at the bottom it was "Patsy" on how to make Orange Coconut Cookies! The back page, which has no sport what-so-ever but "The Flutters" is at the bottom. |
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Posts: 7301 (Sat, 30-Aug-08 02:22:58) Super Turnip |
I've been reading back to earlier messages on this thread, and find that you had named 'Buck Ryan' as your favourite, Pompeystato. At the time
(September 2005) Jimbo had suggested that I upload strips from my copies of Daily Mirror. I musn't have been following this section at the time,
because I don't recall reading it before. However - 3 years late - here are a couple of scans. First from the VE Day issue (8 May 1945). 'Buck
Ryan' was the lead strip on the cartoon page - followed by 'Beelzebub Jones', 'Belinda', 'Popeye', 'Ruggles' and finally
'Garth'. On the facing page was 'Jane' and 'Just Jake. Each strip celebrated the Victory - including of course 'Buck Ryan' (as
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8 May 1945 
Fast forward 6 years to 3 May 1951, and the Daily Mirror front page celebrated the opening of the Festival of Britain exhibition on the South Bank. The strip cartoon page was still headed by 'Buck Ryan' (see below), followed by 'Just Jake', 'Belinda', 'Garth', 'Jimpy' and finally 'Patsy' (with tips on potting Dahlias). A 'Patsy' strip was on the previous page too - a recipe for Stuffed Potato Salad. Elsewhere in the paper you could read the 'Ruggles' strip and a 'Useless Eustace' cartoon, while at the foot of the back page we find 'The Flutters'. 3 May 1951 
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william brown |
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Posts: 9216 (Fri, 5-Sep-08 21:13:49) Super Turnip |
Thanks for the uploads, Brian. Due to technical troubles, this is the first time I have been able to get into and read this thread for a while.
Somewhere between 1951 and 1954, Ruggles found its way onto the main cartoon page (at least that's what my memory tells me.) Near the top but after Buck Ryan but before Belinda, Jimpy and Garth. I would love to see an image from "Just Jake" which I recall the name of but cannot grasp a picture of the characters. And now I'm beginning to doubt my own memory re Ruggles. Oh, dear! |
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