#frank bellamy

[downthetubes]

Original Thunderbirds art by Frank Bellamy, for TV Century 21.

[phoenixflames12]

I have no idea if this is going to go anywhere, but it felt good to write it down. With thanks to @sandfordsmostwanted for being the best writing partner I could wish to develop this AU with.

The church is filled with flowers.

Dev sees them through red rimmed eyes, his fingers shivering in Monica’s as he listens to the minister saying the final blessing. The children are quiet, hushed with the solemnity of the moment, even Peter Rabbit not fussing as he turns wide, dark eyes to try and take the church with its stained glass, its flowers and plaques to the great and the good, in.

 On his other side, Lucy’s hand squeezes his own, her eyes fixed on the coffin.

‘Ma?’

Her soft, grey-blue eyes turn to him, gentle amongst the folds of her wrinkles and he remembers when he had first truly seen her. Remembers the bedroom back at 40 Westgate, swimming in and out of a haze of fever and pain to see gentle eyes watching him beside the bed.

Remembers Frank sitting with him, guiding him through the first few lessons that he’d felt up to taking, sat at the kitchen table, worrying his pencil between his teeth as he poured over his Latin Grammar.

The church is filled with flowers. Full of Monica’s hand squeezing his own, a soft, sad smile playing at the corners of her lips. In the quiet, he believes that he can see a boy with a tousled mop of cornsilk coloured hair standing in the choir, his voice rising and falling like a lark weeping for home.

‘He was- He was so proud of you, my lark,’ Lucy murmurs, following his gaze. She reaches to cup his cheek, her fingers shivering slightly, and he swallows back a sob.

Remembers sitting with her and Monica, Tansy’s head on his lap after the undertakers had taken Frank away. Frank dressed in his dress blues, his wings pinned to his jacket lapel, looking for all the world like he would wake at any moment and-

‘We’ll take care of him, Mrs Bellamy. Mr Morse. Mrs Morse. Don’t you worry about a thing.’

 That morning had been a long, hot stretch in the garden, sitting under a sky full of blustery clouds. They had been sitting under the Oak tree, Lucy’s hands resting on the little headstone memorialising Teddy, Kitty and George.  Joy had been curled up beside Lucy, Peter Rabbit on Lucy’s lap, Freddy on Monica’s. Joyce’s head had been resting on his shoulder, and he had felt all of eleven again, hoping that they wouldn’t be sent away.

The bedroom window had been open, and Dev remembers hoping, that a strain of a record would start playing, that his Da’s out of tune whistling would catch on that breeze, that-

Overhead, the white streak of an aeroplane had cut across the sky.

‘Where d’you think Grandda Frank is now, Granny Lucy?’

Joy’s eyes had been shining as Lucy had smiled a small, soft smile, her eyes skywards.

‘Flying, I expect. With his boys.’

She had turned to Dev then, her eyes shivering with tears as she had reached over to squeeze his hand.

‘But you were his favourite, my lark. Always.’

‘Never forget that, my dear, dear boy.’

[pat1dee]

Star Trek by Frank Bellamy

[tomoleary]

Frank Bellamy “TV Century 21 Thunderbirds” Original Art

[reddalek02]

[elvisomar]

Illustration by Frank Bellamy.

[commandermac]

New on Sequential 21!

The first in a colossal 4-part retrospective of Thunderbirds' comic book adventures in TV Century 21. Solar dangers! African Missions! Eagle talons! It was all go in 1966 for International Rescue!

[ginge1962]

Century 21 Vol 3: Escape from Aquatraz.

Beautifully reprinted pages at original published size of strips from TV21, Tornado & Countdown.

Featuring art from Mike Noble, Ron Turner, Frank Hampson, Ron Embleton, Frank Bellamy & Brian Lewis - a real Who's Who of comic book artists in the UK from the 60s & 70s!

[itshelia]

Is it just me or everyone imagine their fav characters that they are obsessing over in real life???

Like I'll be at work and then I imagine that bitch sitting next to me, talking to me and admiring me while I FUCKING KNOW THAT I HAVENT KISSED A MALE SPECIES IN MY ENTIRE LIFE

I don't know if that's sign of a fucking mental problem or what but I swear if I'm even Slightly upset or tired of my life i WILL open tumblr and start imagining them or talking to them (aka my wall. It be sitting there like the fuck gurl im not your man)

[starsm00n]

I don’t care, if he has brown eyes. I’m on my knees.

[downthetubes]

Frank Bellamy’s original cover artwork for The Eagle Volume 10 No 33, together with a copy of the original comic, is part of the current Compal comic auction, many of the lots highlighted here on downthetubes: https://downthetubes.net/first-issue-of-the-beano-with-only-known-surviving-free-gift-offered-at-auction/. Thanks to Alan Craddock for sight of the interior page, also by Bellamy

[phoenixflames12]

Go and Luck Go With You

‘You were the best decision I ever made, sweetheart. Nothing that you think you’ve done will ever change that.’

Snippets from a life that could have been.

Endeavour Morse navigates the twists and turns of a life that brings him back to the one who he thought was lost to him forever.

Two moodboards as early Christmas presents (and another late birthday present) for two wonderful people @gohoubi and @sandfordsmostwanted and anyone else who has read, commented, left kudos and generally cheerleaded this fic (there are too many of you to list right now). You have made me realise how much fun writing is again and I couldn't have done it without you all.

[pat1dee]

The Daily Mirror Book Of Garth 1975

Cover by Frank Bellamy

[tomoleary]

Frank Bellamy "Heros the Spartan" from the early to mid ‘60s.

“…generally regarded as the greatest British comic strip ever produced.”

[reddalek02]

[gladiatorcunt]

weak man don’t exist no

just flesh and blood exists