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Feb 1, 2018 9:37:36 GMT
Post by Steve Austin on Feb 1, 2018 9:37:36 GMT
One of my favourites, is this from The Hotspur or Victor?
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Post by Bojan Scores on Feb 1, 2018 12:25:04 GMT
I remember Alf Tupper from The Victor, although he had a few homes. I always remember that he welded bicycle frames in a railway arch, eat fish n chips, generally fell out with a ‘toff’ athlete. Not forgetting his catchphrase ‘I ran ‘em!’. I bought a compilation book of TOFT and the artwork has a certain lost world quality about it. Rainy streets, canals, factories, grubby cafes, friendly beat bobbies. It retains a great deal of charm and interest for the adult reader I’d say.
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Post by Steve Austin on Feb 1, 2018 14:04:54 GMT
I remember Alf Tupper from The Victor, although he had a few homes. I always remember that he welded bicycle frames in a railway arch, eat fish n chips, generally fell out with a ‘toff’ athlete. Not forgetting his catchphrase ‘I ran ‘em!’. I bought a compilation book of TOFT and the artwork has a certain lost world quality about it. Rainy streets, canals, factories, grubby cafes, friendly beat bobbies. It retains a great deal of charm and interest for the adult reader I’d say. I love all those old comics, Hotspur, Victor, Valliant, Warrior, Tiger etc and agree about the artwork. For me it's not just about the stories, characters etc and the level of detail in some is superb. Accomplished illustrators such as Arthur Ranson manage to convey so much emotion and drama in a single cell. His work was used a lot in the "Look-In" comic and he drew their "Story of The Beatles" cartoon in the early 80's, something I still have today. If you're not familiar with his work then I would recommend checking some of his work.
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Feb 1, 2018 15:12:22 GMT
Post by Arthur Pringle on Feb 1, 2018 15:12:22 GMT
I don't know much about the history of these strips, was Alf Tupper intended as a satire on the working class? Looking at them from a modern point of view, it's hard to be sure whether the humour in these old comics wasn't more sophisticated than the Viz parodies would make you believe.
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Post by Bojan Scores on Feb 1, 2018 16:26:16 GMT
I don't know much about the history of these strips, was Alf Tupper intended as a satire on the working class? Looking at them from a modern point of view, it's hard to be sure whether the humour in these old comics wasn't more sophisticated than the Viz parodies would make you believe. First of all I believe the Viz parodies were the best cartoons they ever did, so funny. I think the Alf Tupper strips were sincerely conceived, at a time in the 50s/60s/70s where people readily identified themselves as working class to social surveys. Maybe there is a subliminal humour in there too. Alf’s world does look strangely familiar to me though:D
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Post by Arthur Pringle on Feb 6, 2018 16:02:44 GMT
I remember buying 'Oink!', which ran from 1986-88, it was a sanitised version of Viz aimed at younger readers with a lot of pig based content. From what I recall it wasn't particularly funny, treading ground between a mainstream children's comic like The Beano & the adult content of Viz. Frank Sidebottom was a regular in it & I remember him plugging it when he appeared on The James Whale Show.
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Post by Ministrone on Feb 6, 2018 16:56:57 GMT
I remember buying 'Oink!', which ran from 1986-88, it was a sanitised version of Viz aimed at younger readers with a lot of pig based content. From what I recall it wasn't particularly funny, treading ground between a mainstream children's comic like The Beano & the adult content of Viz. Frank Sidebottom was a regular in it & I remember him plugging it when he appeared on The James Whale Show. Wow! Oink comic really takes me back. I loved this comic back in the 80s and was a regular read along with Battle Action Force and transformers. A quick Google tells me that Chris Donald (of Viz fame) Marc (Marc & Lard) Riley and Charlie Brooker were all Oink story contributors. Double wow.
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Feb 6, 2018 19:21:52 GMT
Post by Arthur Pringle on Feb 6, 2018 19:21:52 GMT
Yes I was surprised to read who was involved in it.
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Post by Arthur Pringle on Jan 30, 2019 22:04:40 GMT
Target, produced by NEL ( New English Library, more famous for publishing paperbacks ), from 1972-3. A combination of magazine articles on films, sport, cars, music, etc & comic strips such as 'Bovver Boy'. There can't be many mags that featured Shaft, Hitler & Peter Gabriel on the same cover.
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Jan 30, 2019 22:13:17 GMT
Post by Steve Austin on Jan 30, 2019 22:13:17 GMT
Not seen that before Arthur. Seems like it didn't know what it was, a magazine or a comic. Not surprised it only ran for a year or so, I would imagine the target audience was limited.
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