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Artist: Frank Hampson for Ladybird Books

“These books provide insights into the social history of that extraordinarily expansive period between 1945 and 1980, when the horizons of the British people for a time opened up.”

Michael Wood, historian

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Doctor Who TV Comics, Dan Dare and Charley's War art on offer in latest Compalcomics auction

The Compalcomics February auction is open for bidding, and there are plenty of items in the British comic section sure to attract fierce bidding - not least of the large runs of TV Comic, several "Charley's War" art lots, and some Dan Dare art, too

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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!

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The Wonderful World of the Ladybird Book Artists

This year, the fascinating tale of the skilled artists who brought Ladybird books to life for over three decades was explored at��The Wonderful World of the Ladybird Book Artists exhibition at the Victoria Art Gallery in Bath. The exhibition featured rare books, original artworks, and artefacts, demonstrating the role of the illustrators for Ladybird. The exhibition also looked into the…

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William Shakespeare // pinterest // Feel Good (2020-2021) cr. Joe Hampson & Mae Martin // Natalie Diaz These Hands, If Not Gods // Sandra Cisneros Woman at Hollering Creek: Stories; "Never Marry a Mexican" // Holland NUMBER BOY // Richard Siken Crush // 스물다섯 스물하나 Twenty-Five Twenty-One (2022) dir. Jung Ji-hyun // Sappho // Dodie She // Maureen Seaton Furious Cooking; "Swan Lake" // unknown // Frank Ocean Forrest Gump // แปลรักฉันด้วยใจเธอ I Told Sunset About You / I Promised You the Moon (2020-2022) dir. Naruebet Kuno & Tossaphon Riantong // Danez Smith Recklessly (via @tendermimi)

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Opera on YouTube

I've shared links to complete opera performances before, but I love to share them, so I thought I'd make a few masterposts.

These list are by no means the only complete filmed performances of these operas on YouTube, but I decided that ten links for each opera was enough for now.

By the way, some of the subtitles are just a part of the video, while others require you to click CC to see them.

Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute)

Hamburg Philharmonic State Opera, 1971 (Nicolai Gedda, Edith Mathis, William Workman, Christina Deutekom, Hans Sotin; conducted by Horst Stein; English subtitles)

Ingmar Bergman film, 1975 (Josef Köstlinger, Irma Urrila, Håkan Hagegård, Birgit Nordin, Ulrik Cold; conducted by Eric Ericson; sung in Swedish; English subtitles)

Salzburg Festival, 1982 (Peter Schreier, Ileana Cotrubas, Christian Bösch, Edita Gruberova, Martti Talvela; conducted by James Levine; Japanese subtitles)

Bavarian State Opera, 1983 (Francisco Araiza, Lucia Popp, Wolfgang Brendel, Edita Gruberova, Kurt Moll; conducted by Wolfgang Sawallisch; English subtitles)

Metropolitan Opera, 1991 (Francisco Araiza, Kathleen Battle, Manfred Hemm, Luciana Serra, Kurt Moll; conducted by James Levine; English subtitles)

Paris Opera, 2001 (Piotr Beczala, Dorothea Röschmann, Detlef Roth, Desirée Rancatore, Matti Salminen; conducted by Ivan Fischer; no subtitles)

Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 2003 (Will Hartman, Dorothea Röschmann, Simon Keenlyside, Diana Damrau, Franz Josef Selig; conducted by Colin Davis; no subtitles) – Act I, Act II

La Monnaie, Brussels, 2005 (Topi Lehtipuu, Sophie Karthäuser, Stephan Loger, Ana Camelia Stefanescu, Harry Peeters; conducted by René Jacobs; French subtitles)

Kenneth Branagh film, 2006 (Joseph Kaiser, Amy Carson, Benjamin Jay Davis, Lyubov Petrova, René Pape; conducted by James Conlon; sung in English)

San Francisco Opera, 2010 (Piotr Beczala, Dina Kuznetsoca, Christopher Maltman, Erika Miklósa, Georg Zeppenfeld; conducted by Donald Runnicles; English subtitles)

La Traviata

Mario Lanfrachi studio film, 1968 (Anna Moffo, Franco Bonisolli, Gino Bechi; conducted by Giuseppe Patané; English subtitles)

Glyndebourne Festival Opera, 1987 (Marie McLaughlin, Walter MacNeil, Brent Ellis; conducted by Bernard Haitink; Italian and Portuguese subtitles)

Teatro alla Scala, 1992 (Tiziana Fabbricini, Roberto Alagna, Paolo Coni; conducted by Riccardo Muti; English subtitles)

Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 1994 (Angela Gheorghiu, Frank Lopardo, Leo Nucci; conducted by Georg Solti; Spanish subtitles)

Teatro Giuseppe Verdi, 2003 (Stefania Bonfadelli, Scott Piper, Renato Bruson; conducted by Plácido Domingo; Spanish subtitles)

Salzburg Festival, 2005 (Anna Netrebko, Rolando Villazón, Thomas Hampson; conducted by Carlo Rizzi; no subtitles)

Los Angeles Opera, 2006 (Renée Fleming, Rolando Villazón, Renato Bruson; conducted by James Conlon; English subtitles)

Opera Festival St. Margarethen, 2008 (Kristiane Kaiser, Jean-Francois Borras, Georg Tichy; conducted by Ernst Märzendorfer; English subtitles)

Teatro Real di Madrid, 2015 (Ermonela Jaho, Francesco Demuro, Juan Jesús Rodríguez; conducted by Renato Palumbo; English subtitles)

Teatro Massimo, 2023 (Nino Machiadze, Saimir Pirgu, Roberto Frontali; conducted by Carlo Goldstein; no subtitles)

Carmen

Herbert von Karajan studio film, 1967 (Grace Bumbry, Jon Vickers; conducted by Herbert von Karajan; English subtitles)

Vienna State Opera, 1978 (Elena Obraztsova, Plácido Domingo; conducted by Carlos Kleiber; English Subtitles)

Francisco Rosi film, 1982 (Julia Migenes, Plácido Domingo; conducted by Lorin Maazel; English subtitles)

Metropolitan Opera, 1987 (Agnes Baltsa, José Carreras; conducted by James Levine; English subtitles)

London Earls Court Arena, 1989 (Maria Ewing, Jacque Trussel; conducted by Jaques Delacote; English subtitles)

Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 1991 (Maria Ewing, Luis Lima; conducted by Zubin Mehta; English subtitles) – Acts I and II, Acts III and IV

Arena di Verona, 2003 (Marina Domashenko, Marco Berti; conducted by Alain Lombard; Italian subtitles)

Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 2006 (Anna Caterina Antonacci, Jonas Kaufmann; conducted by Antonio Pappano; English subtitles) – Acts I and II, Acts III and IV

Metropolitan Opera, 2010 (Elina Garanca, Roberto Alagna; conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin; English subtitles) – Acts I and II, Acts III and IV

Opéra-Comique, 2023 (Gaëlle Arquez, Frédéric Antoun; conducted by Louis Langrée; English subtitles)

La Bohéme

Franco Zeffirelli studio film, 1965 (Mirella Freni, Gianni Raimondi; conducted by Herbert von Karajan; English subtitles)

Metropolitan Opera, 1977 (Renata Scotto, Luciano Pavarotti; conducted by James Levine; no subtitles)

Teatro alla Scala, 1979 (Ileana Cotrubas, Luciano Pavarotti; conducted by Carlos Kleiber; no subtitles)

Opera Australia, 1993 (Cheryl Barker, David Hobson; conducted by Julian Smith; Brazilian Portuguese subtitles)

Teatro Regio di Torino, 1996 (Mirella Freni, Luciano Pavarotti; conducted by Daniel Oren; Italian subtitles)

Teatro alla Scala, 2003 (Cristina Gallardo-Domâs, Marcelo Alvarez; conducted by Bruno Bartoletti; Spanish subtitles)

Zürich Opera House, 2005 (Cristina Gallardo-Domâs, Marcello Giordani; conducted by Franz Welser-Möst; no subtitles)

Robert Dornhelm film, 2009 (Anna Netrebko, Rolando Villazón; conducted by Bertrand de Billy; no subtitles)

Opera Australia, 2011 (Takesha Meshé Kizart, Ji-Min Park; Shao-Chia Lü; no subtitles)

Sigulda Opera Festival, 2022 (Maija Kovalevska, Mihail Mihaylov; conducted by Vladimir Kiradjiev; English subtitles)

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Are there any sources you would recommend for Danton, especially any good biographies?

The best Danton book I know of is Danton: le mythe et l’histoire (2016). It is however not a biography but a series of essays on different parts of Danton’s political career. Danton’s private life is not touched upon at all as far as I’m concerned.

When it comes to actual biographies, I do know of a ton that can be accessed for free via Internet Archive (Danton (1914) by Louis Madelin, Danton (1935) by Hermann Wendel, Danton (1978) by Normann Hampson, Danton (1987) by Frank Dwyer and Life of Danton (1906) by Augustus Henry). Most of them I have however only interacted with when gathering information for an ask about Danton’s second wife Louise Gély, and in this instance, none of them were particulary helpful, each repeating the same claims regarding Louise without providing any sources to back it up with. I don’t know if they are the same when talking about Danton’s public life though, it after all being a subject they all probably had a bigger interest in. Of those listed, I would mainly recommend Danton (1978) by Normann Hampson, if not because it at the very least cites footnotes. I found it to be helpful when studying the lead up to the dantonist purge (mainly when it came to the alleged meeting(s?) he and Robespierre had in the weeks predating it), and the historian Marisa Linton described as an ”excellent biography” in 2014.

There’s also Danton, Mémoire sur sa vie privée (1865) by Jean François Eugène Robinet, that among other things includes a memoir written by Danton’s two sons, and Danton — Fragment Historique by Danton’s former colleague Alexandre Rousselin. Both are of course bias in his favour, but they’re still primary accounts.

Finally, I also know of the recent double biography Danton et Robespierre: Le choc de la Révolution(2021) by Loris Chavanette. However, I haven’t read it and therefore can’t say if it’s any good.

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The Dalek Project

In 2009, a Doctor Who graphic novel starring the 10th Doctor was announced. However, the plot involved Daleks during World War I. Due to the similarity with the upcoming Victory of the Daleks, the graphic novel was delayed to 2012. At that point, it was reworked to feature the incumbent 11th Doctor! (Just ignore how this makes it even more similar to Victory of the Daleks.)

Because who would want to read a 10th Doctor comic story in 2012? He was old news!

Here's the original art by Mike Collins, which was an homage to a Frank Hampson piece from 1973.

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Frank Hampson by Atom.D Dan Dare Reign of the Robots + The Ship that Lived (1993) https://flic.kr/p/NFzr5Z

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A poster from Super Spider-Man and the Titans No. 206, 1977 by none other than Frank Hampson (1918-1985), creator of Dan Dare. If I had the appropriate computer skills I would combine these two images.

Below is an ad for it that ran in Marvel UK's Captain Britain title.

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Grant Morrison and Rian Hughes' 'Dare' Does Space Hero Satire Better than 'Strange Adventures'

Grant Morrison and Rian Hughes' 'Dare' Does Space Hero Satire Better than 'Strange Adventures' #comics #comicbooks

While I was reading Strange Adventures #1, or Tom King, Mitch Gerads, and Evan Shaner’s latest comic on King’s military service and his regrets and feelings about working for the CIA as well as how much he loves his wife starring a DC Comics B-list character, I had the sneaking suspicion I’d read a better version of this comic. That comic was Dare: The Controversial Memoir of Dan Dare by Grant…

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Dan Dare - Pilot of the Future

Art by Frank Hampson

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WebFind: Future Perfect: Dan Dare, Pilot of the Future

WebFind: Future Perfect: Dan Dare, Pilot of the Future

Mark Gorton offers an entertaining profile of Reverend Marcus Morris and Frank Hampson, comic artist and writer Dan Dare, in this 2018 article, “Future Perfect: Dan Dare, Pilot of the Future”, exploring the genius of two men who turned the seaside town of Southport into the centre of the universe. “This is the story of how and why,” says Mark, who includes a photograph of the two men at Bayford…

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IL GIORNO DEI RAGAZZI, FUMETTI IN UN QUOTIDIANO

IL GIORNO DEI RAGAZZI, FUMETTI IN UN QUOTIDIANO

Il Giorno dei Ragazzi, pubblicato ogni giovedì dal 1956 al 1968 dal quotidiano Il Giorno, è stato sicuramente il migliore dei supplementi settimanali dei quotidiani italiani. Peraltro, la tradizione degli inserti di fumetti esiste praticamente solo negli Stati Uniti, dove escono la domenica dalla fine dell’Ottocento: anzi, il fumetto è nato proprio in quelle pagine.

Inoltre, in una pagina interna…