#the beano 1950s

[art-of-thebeano]

Excerpt from full strip here

I am obsessed with the delicate ink drawings and the red and black 2-spot colour - all printed on what is probably very thin newspaper. Such simple things but so delightful.

Artist: Davy Law

Year: 1957

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Happy Birthday our longest running comic, first published on July 30th 1938 the Beano is 85 years old today!

An ostrich called Big Eggo was the front page star, and the comic only cost 2d. The central composition was also different. While the modern Beano is entirely based on comic strips, the early Beano had stories told with pictures with text beneath explaining what was going on, and stories told only with text. It also lacked many of the characters that are synonymous with it now, Dennis, Rodger and Minnie only arriving in the golden years of the 1950s.

A few months before The Beano came its sister paper, The Dandy, and a year after another sister, The Magic comic. Due to the Second World War however, only two of these were to survive. The war meant that comics had to use fewer pages, by printed in lesser numbers and less often. This meant that the Beano and Dandy were made smaller, only available to those who pre-ordered them, and were only printed on alternate weeks. They provided a vital service in the war, warning children to leave alone things like mines on beaches and printing stories to outline the difference between Nazis and normal Germans and so teaching children not to demonize people based on nationality. They also pictured the enemy leaders as bungling fools, such as in The Beano strip, Musso the Wop and in the many times that Lord Snooty and pals went to give the Fuhrer a piece of their mind.

The 1950s is thought to be the golden age of The Beano as so many of the most popular and long running characters were created then, such as Dennis the Menace, Minnie the Minx, Rodger the Dodger and the characters that would eventually become known as The Bash Street Kids, whose original incarnation was a basically identical story called When The Bell Rings.

As well as it’s regular characters, the Beano also had it’s supply of irregulars, who popped in every so often for one off-stories. These were usually less cartoony, the characters looking more realistic and detailed, and the stories themselves were often more serious. These stories included General Jumbo and The Iron Fish. A more recent example would be Billy The Cat.

Of course being a Scottish publication there were some characters who were based here, most notable were two from the 1970's Wee Ben Nevis T\and he McTickles., the latter involved Chief Jock and his highland clan fought a comic war of attrition against their rivals the McNasties, while avoiding the pranks played on them by the "McHaggises", small round animals with a similar shape to a haggis and with long noses and thistles for ears. Some McHaggises had legs of different length on opposite sides of their bodies, allowing them to remain horizontal while walking around the sides of mountains.

More recently The Beano has been moving with the times n recent years there have been a number of tweaks and changes made to some of the principal characters and now, to mark the publication’s 85th anniversary, five new characters have been added to the Bash Street Kids: Harsha, Mandi, Khadija, Mahira and Stevie Starr to better reflect 21st Century life.

One of the new characters suffers from anxiety while another wears a hijab and they have already been scrutinised by some sections of the media. Beano bosses are prepared for accusations of ‘wokery’ and yet another so-called politically correct assault on our heritage, but insist that we all have to move with the times and that, prior to the changes, all ten of the original Bash Street Kids were white and nine were boys.

This outdated picture, they quite rightly argue, doesn’t reflect the society that today’s Beano readers inhabit and, if they want to retain existing readers, not to mention attract new ones, they need to move with the times. It was the same motivation which prompted management at the comic to rename key characters Fatty and Spotty, Freddy and Scotty a couple of years ago.

While Freddy still looks like someone who wouldn’t ever say no to extra chips, there is no need for his old, outdated nickname, which quite frankly, has been outlawed in playgrounds across the land for the past three decades at least

Of course there will be thosde who disagree with the newer characters and name changes, but I wonder how many of these folk have actually picked up a copy of The Beano since the 1970's?

If being respectful of others’ beliefs and feelings makes me woke then I’m guilty as charged and, quite frankly, I would be worried if I wasn’t considered to be as such.

Tens of thousands of copies of The Beano are sold every week which, in this digital age, is very impressive and is testament to its enduring relevance. We live in different times to those of our grandparents and recognising that fact is a strength rather than a weakness.

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Comics Euro+

Adv of Tin Tin (1929)-G.Remi, Caster, Snowy, Haddock, Thomson Winnie Pooh (1926) - Milne, Methuen, Robin, Piglet, Tigger Wallace Gromit (1982) - N.Park, Feather McGraw, Shaun Sheep Asterix (1959) - Goscinny, Dargaud, Vital, Obelix, Getafix Paddington Bear (1958) - T.Bond, Henry Brown, Aunt Lucy Babar Elephant (1931) - Brunhoff, Rataxes, Celeste, Basil Gaston Lagaffe (1957) - Franquin, Bubulle, Cheese Peter Pan (1902) Le Morte d'Arthur (1485) Lion Witch War (1950) Spirou Fantasio (38), Beano (38), Blake Mortimer (46), Lucky Luke (46), Tiger (54), Dappere Dodo (55), Gaston Lagaffe (57), Smurfs (58), Boule and Bill (59), Commando (61), Thunderbirds (65), Arthur (66), Bluecoats (68), Whizzer and Chips (69), Warlord (74), Roy of Rovers (76), XIII (84), Thomas Train (84), Pingu (86), Tootuff (92), Serial Teachers (97), Teletubbies (97), Bob Builder (99), Peppa Pig (04) Romeo Juliet (1597), Robinson Crusoe (1719), Beauty Beast (1740), Pride Prejudice (1813), Frankenstein (1818), Oliver Twist (38), David Copperfield (50), Alice Wonder (1865), Heidi (80), Treasure Island (1881), Jungle Book (1894), Dracula (1897), Wind Willows (08) 39 Steps (35), Hobbit (37), Pippi Longstocking (45), Lion Witch Wardrobe (50), Casino Royale (53), Charlie Chocolate (64), Mission Impossible (66), Clash of Titans (81), Harry Potter (97)

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According to the National Day Calendar today we celebrate GAME DAY. 7 Stories Behind Our Favorite Games – Board games are a great way to spend quality time with family and friends. Besides strengthening relationships, there are many other benefits of board games. These benefits include improved memory, reduced stress, and a reduced risk for mental health issues. With all the fun and benefits board games provide, it’s no wonder people have been playing them for years. But just how long have some of our favorite board games been around? Keep reading to find out the stories behind 7 of our favorite board games. 1. Chess Chess is such an old game that it is hard to determine the exact origins of the game. Some believe chess was invented around 200 BC in China. The inventor, a commander named Han Xin, supposedly came up with the game to represent a particular battle. The game was forgotten until the 7th century when it resurfaced with new rules. Chess eventually made its way from China to India and Persia. Others believe the game of Chess began in North India during the 6th century and then spread throughout Asia. 2. Monopoly A leftwing feminist named Lizzy Magie invented Monopoly in 1903. Although she attained the patent for the board game, she never received credit for its invention. She had called it “The Landlord’s Game.” Years later in 1932, Charles Darrow learned to play the game at a friend’s house. At that time, people were calling it, “the monopoly game.” Darrow, who was unemployed at the time, sold a version of the game to Parker Brothers. Monopoly became an instant success, making Darrow millions. 3. Bingo At the time of its invention during the 1500s, Bingo was called Beano. It was called this because players covered the numbers on their cards with beans. Known as the Italian Lottery, the game was all the rage in its day. The game eventually found its way to France in the 1770s. During the 1900s in the Americas, Beano was being played at all the local carnivals. The United Kingdom had a similar game they called Bingo. Eventually, the United States adopted the Brit’s name for the game. 4. Scrabble Originally called LEXIKO, Scrabble was invented by an out-of-work architect during the Great Depression in 1931. The inventor’s name was Alfred M. Butts. He combined the elements of anagrams and crossword puzzles to make the scoring word game. During the 1930s and 40s, he called the game CRISS CROSS WORDS. A game-loving entrepreneur named James Brunot helped refine the rules for the game. After renaming it Scrabble, the game gained in popularity throughout the 1950s. 5. Trivial Pursuit Canadians Chris Haney and Scott Abbott created Trivial Pursuit in 1979. At the time, the men worked for different newspapers in Montreal. They decided to invent a new game when they realized their Scrabble board had missing pieces. In 1981, they attained the trademark for Trivial Pursuit. The game became so popular that Time Magazine dubbed it, “The biggest phenomenon in game history.” 6. Checkers The title for the oldest board game in the world probably belongs to Checkers. It’s believed that Checkers has been around since 3000 B.C. The earliest form of the game was dug up in the ancient city of Ur in Mesopotamia, where civilization first began. Europeans call the game “Draughts” (pronounced drafts.) The game gained in popularity throughout history and the world. 7. Pictionary Robert Angel, a waiter in Seattle, created Pictionary as a way to liven up social parties. During parties, he would randomly take a word from the dictionary and try to draw it. Other partygoers would then guess what word he was illustrating. The success of Trivial Pursuit inspired him to develop a prototype of the game and market it. Pictionary became so popular in the late 1980s that it was hard for stores to keep the game on the shelf.

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First edition of "The Dandy" the star lot in Compal's latest comics auction

First edition of “The Dandy” the star lot in Compal’s latest comics auction

Compal‘s first auction for 2022 has just opened for bidding with a host of British comic goodies on offer – including a star lot, the very first issue of The Dandy, published in 1937. There are around 25 copies known to exist and this example is in “VG-grade” – and there are more early Dandy comics on offer, including several complete years in bound volumes from the 1950s. The Beano is also well…

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Comics as distinct from Magazines that often tied into tv shows and films for children were massive from the 1950′s to the early 1980′s.

This is good example of a “also run” from the early 1970′s that didn’t challenge the supremacy of the Beano, Dandy, Roy of the Rovers and Warlord in that era.

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The Gibson Les Paul

The result of a collaboration between Gibson Guitars and the late jazz guitarist Les Paul, electric guitars very quickly became a public craze.

In 1902, The Gibson Mandolin guitar company was formed. Gibson’s first electric guitar the ES-150 was produced in 1936, and in 1946 Gibson introduced the P-90 single coil pickup, which was eventually used on the first Les Paul model made in 1952.

The Gibson Les Paul was the result of a design collaboration between Gibson Guitar Corporation and the late jazz guitarist and electronics inventor Les Paul. In 1950, with the introduction of the Fender Telecaster to the musical market, electric guitars became a public craze.

While working in his small Kalamazoo, Michigan workshop on a hot summer afternoon in 1894, Orville Gibson did not comprehend the affect his instruments would have on the music world. Starting with strong convictions about instrument design and quality, Orville created a whole new family of guitars and mandolins and later inspired generations of craftsmen to produce some of the finest instruments the world has ever heard or seen.

A virtuoso classical mandolinist and acoustical engineer, Lloyd Loar joined Gibson in 1919, one year after Orville’s death. Loar’s cultivations of Orville’s original carving concepts brought about the Master Model F-5 mandolin and L-5 guitar, with tuned tops and backs and the first “f” holes ever found on fretted instruments. The F-5 was hastily judged the greatest mandolin ever built, while the L-5, in the hands of players like Eddie Lang, became the first guitar to take a serious role in the orchestra scene. It quickly replaced the tenor banjo as a rhythm instrument and became the basis for Gibson’s dominance and superiority in the new field of arch top guitars.

The 1920’s saw another period of incredible innovations, including elevated fingerboards, bridges with height adjustment, and Thaddeus McHugh’s adjustable truss rod, patented in 1921. Simple and direct in operation, the truss rod balanced the tension of the strings on the neck and kept the neck in perfect alignment. The 1920’s also saw Gibson develop banjo concepts like the modern tone ring and resonator, which revolutionized the tenor banjo of its day and laid the foundation for Earl Scruggs and Bluegrass music 20 years later.

The 1937 Gibson catalogue featured a new electric guitar, the ES-150. This “Electric Spanish” guitar blended the new technology of magnetic pickups with arch-top design in an instrument designed to be amplified. When a young man from Oklahoma named Charlie Christian plugged in with Benny Goodman, he turned the guitar into a lead instrument. Music would never be the same and Christian’s forceful lead guitar lines invented a whole new musical style that’s been duplicated for over 50 years.

Les Paul had been developing the concept of the solid body guitar since the 1930’s. In 1941, he split an arch-top Epiphone in half lengthwise and bolted both sides to a 4″ x 4″ solid block. This two pickup monster (Les called it “The Log”) was not a pretty sight, but it established Les’ idea that solid body instruments had a unique sound and musical future.

Les had presented his ideas to Gibson in 1945 or 1946, but demand for traditional Gibson’s that the company didn’t see the need. According to Les, “They politely ushered me out the door. They called it the broom-stick with a pickup on it.” However, several years later, Gibson executives recognized the significance and future of Les Paul’s solid body design.

Ted McCarty found Les and Gibson’s Les Paul guitar made its debut in 1952. For the first time, two woods – maple for the top and mahogany for the back – were combined on a solid instrument for a musical purpose, balancing the bright attack of maple with the warmth and richness of mahogany. The tune-o-matic bridge appeared on the Les Paul in 1954, and the humbuckers followed in 1957. When the LP was offered with a cherry sunburst top in 1958, one of the greatest electric guitar designs ever was firmly established.

By the late 1950s, the Les Paul was considered “staid and old-fashioned”, no longer competitive with the Stratocaster, and by 1961 Gibson stopped producing the Les Paul in favour of the SG. The mid-1960s, however, brought a resurgence of interest in the Les Paul, a development credited to one man and one album: Eric Clapton, using a Les Paul plugged into a Marshall Bluesbreaker as recorded on Blues Breakers with Eric Clapton (the “Beano” album, 1966), set the standard for tone for a new generation of guitar players in blues and rock and roll.

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Ο Bowie ήταν δεινός αναγνώστης, χανόταν μέσα στα βιβλία(λέγεται ότι προσπαθούσε να διαβάζει ένα βιβλίο την ημέρα) και είχε φροντίσει να ξεχωρίσει τα αγαπημένα του αναγνώσματα, τα οποία είδαν το φως της δημοσιότητας το 2013,  στο πλαίσιο της έκθεσης «David Bowie Is» του Art Gallery στο Οντάριο του Καναδά. Οι επιμελητές Geoffrey Marsh και Victoria Broackes συνέλεξαν την λίστα των 100 αγαπημένων του βιβλίων, μια «περιπλάνηση» ανάμεσα σε κλασσικά μυθιστορήματα, περιοδικά, ιστορικούς τίτλους και σύγχρονα αναγνώσματα.

Αν τους ρίξετε μια ματιά θα δείτε πως δεν είχε κάποια ιδιαίτερη προτίμηση σε είδος. Στη λίστα μπορείτε να βρείτε Δάντη, Όργουελ, Κέρουακ, Τζούλιαν Μπαρνς, Κάφκα, Καμύ ακόμη και…Όμηρο.

Η Λίστα με τα 100 αγαπημένα βιβλία του David Bowie:

«Interviews With Francis Bacon» του David Sylvester «Billy Liar» του Keith Waterhouse «Room At The Top» του John Braine «On Having No Head» του Douglass Harding «Kafka Was The Rage» του Anatole Broyard «A Clockwork Orange» του Anthony Burgess «City Of Night» του John Rechy «The Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao» του Junot Díaz «Madame Bovary» του Gustave Flaubert «Ιλιάδα» του Ομήρου «As I Lay Dying» του William Faulkner «Tadanori Yokoo» του Tadanori Yokoo «Berlin Alexanderplatz» του Alfred Döblin «Inside The Whale And Other Essays» του George Orwell «Mr. Norris Changes Trains» του Christopher Isherwood «Dictionary Of Subjects And Symbols In Art» του James A. Hall «David Bomberg» του Richard Cork «Blast» του Wyndham Lewis «Passing» της Nella Larsen «Beyond The Brillo Box: The Visual Arts in Post-Historical Perspective» του Arthur C. Danto «The Origin Of Consciousness In The Breakdown Of The Bicameral Mind» του Julian Jaynes «In Bluebeard’s Castle» του George Steiner «Hawksmoor» του Peter Ackroyd «The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness» του R. D. Laing «The Stranger» του Albert Camus «Infants Of The Spring» του Wallace Thurman «The Quest For Christa T» της Christa Wolf «The Songlines» του Bruce Chatwin «Nights At The Circus» της Angela Carter «The Master And Margarita» του Mikhail Bulgakov «The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie» της Muriel Spark «Lolita» του Vladimir Nabokov «Herzog» του Saul Bellow «Puckoon» του Spike Milligan «Black Boy» του Richard Wright «The Great Gatsby» του F. Scott Fitzgerald «The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea» του Yukio Mishima «Darkness At Noon» του Arthur Koestler «The Waste Land» του T.S. Eliot «McTeague» του Frank Norris «Money» του Martin Amis «The Outsider» του Colin Wilson «Strange People» του Frank Edwards «English Journey» του J.B. Priestley «A Confederacy Of Dunces» του John Kennedy Toole «The Day Of The Locust» του Nathanael West «1984» του George Orwell

«The Life And Times Of Little Richard» του Charles White «Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom: The Golden Age of Rock» του Nik Cohn «Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock ‘n’ Roll Music» του Greil Marcus «Beano» (κόμικ των 1950s) «Raw» (κόμικ των 1980s) «White Noise» του Don DeLillo «Sweet Soul Music: Rhythm And Blues And The Southern Dream Of Freedom» του Peter Guralnick «Silence: Lectures And Writing» του John Cage «Writers At Work: The Paris Review Interviews» σε επιμέλεια του Malcolm Cowley «The Sound Of The City: The Rise Of Rock And Roll» του Charlie Gillett «Octobriana And The Russian Underground» του Petr Sadecky «The Street» της Ann Petry «Wonder Boys» του Michael Chabon «Last Exit To Brooklyn» του Hubert Selby, Jr. «A People’s History Of The United States» του Howard Zinn «The Age Of American Unreason» της Susan Jacoby «Metropolitan Life» της Fran Lebowitz «The Coast Of Utopia» του Tom Stoppard «The Bridge» του Hart Crane «All The Emperor’s Horses» του David Kidd «Fingersmith» της Sarah Waters «Earthly Powers» του Anthony Burgess «The 42nd Parallel» του John Dos Passos «Tales Of Beatnik Glory» του Ed Sanders «The Bird Artist» του Howard Norman «Nowhere To Run: The Story Of Soul Music» της Gerri Hirshey «Before The Deluge» του Otto Friedrich «Sexual Personae: Art And Decadence From Nefertiti To Emily Dickinson» της Camille Paglia «The American Way Of Death» της Jessica Mitford «In Cold Blood» του Truman Capote «Lady Chatterley’s Lover» της D. H. Lawrence «Teenage» του Jon Savage «Vile Bodies» της Evelyn Waugh «The Hidden Persuaders» του Vance Packard «The Fire Next Time» του James Baldwin «Viz» (κόμικ των 1980s) «Private Eye» (σατυρικό περιοδικό των 1960s και των 1980s) «Selected Poems» του Frank O’Hara «The Trial Of Henry Kissinger» του Christopher Hitchens «Flaubert’s Parrot» του Julian Barnes «Le Chants de Maldordor» του Comte de Lautréamont «On The Road» του Jack Kerouac «Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonder» του Lawrence Weschler «Zanoni» του Edward Bulwer-Lytton «Transcendental Magic: Its Doctine and Ritual» του Éliphas Lévi «The Gnostic Gospels» της Elaine Pagels «The Leopard» του Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa «Κόλαση» του Δάντη «A Grave for a Dolphin» του Alberto Denti di Pirajno «The Insult» by Rupert Thomson «In Between the Sheets» του Ian McEwan «A People’s Tragedy: The Russian Revolution 1890-1924» του Orlando Figes «Journey Into the Whirlwind» της Eugenia Ginzburg

Daily inspiration. Discover more photos at http://justforbooks.tumblr.com

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The 30 Best Comic Books

These days, it's much not possible to ignore the growing prevalence of superheroes. every few months, it seems, some husky young lad slaps on the cloth and seems like a brand new iteration of attender or Spider-Man or one amongst the  Avengers. however let's not forget actuality origin stories behind these characters—or forget to pay our respects to the simplest comics of all time.

Though superhero movies clear Hulk-sized amounts of revenue (the Marvel medium Universe alone has grossed nearly $17 billion), mag sales square measure nothing to sneeze at, either. Some series have sold over a billion copies. Herein, we've gathered along with the popular mag series ever, in step with the knowledgeable counters at Guinness World Records and Education Week. We'd venture to mention several of them also are the simplest comics of all time. And for additional chart-smashers, investigate these thirty popular Novels of All Time.

1Micky Maus by Egmont Ehapa

Mickey Maus popular Comic Books, best comics of all time

Year released: 1951

Copies sold: one billion

The most painting and prolific best comics of all time, Micky Maus contained all of the foremost well-liked filmmaker characters and their daily dealings.

2The keno by DC Thomson

Beano popular Comic Books, best comics of all time

Year released: 1938

Copies sold: one billion

Beano is that the longest-running British comic series, that includes characters like Dennis the Menace, Minnie the flirt, and also the Bash Street children. Over the years, the comics are identified for glorifying immoral behavior like theft and bullying, tho' recently there has been a push to vary this message. And for additional immoral glee in text type, investigate these thirty Funniest Celebrity Books.

3Classics Illustrated by Elliot commercial enterprise Co., Gilberton Company, and Frawley Corporation

Classics Illustrated popular Comic Books, best comics of all time

Year released: 1941 (stopped printing in 1971)

Copies sold: one billion

Classics Illustrated is an associate Yankee mag series that has featured variations of classics like Les Miserables, Moby Dick, and Hamlet. The comics square measure most distinguishable for his or her colorful and elaborated covers.

4Superman by Boche Siegel and Joe Shuster

Superman popular Comic Books, best comics of all time

Year released: 1938

Copies sold: 600 million

This fictional superhero was created initially with this series. when its debut, Superman became a moment success with newspaper strips, video games, and numerous moving pictures and tv variations. Now, it's little doubt one amongst the simplest comics of all time. And for additional Superman trifle, investigate The much Story Behind The Death of Superman.

5Batman by Bob Kane and Bill Finger

Batman popular Comic Books, best comics of all time

Year released: 1939

Copies sold: 460 million

Batman, the best superhero in a very cape, was created simply a year when Superman, in 1939. kind of like its forerunner, attender received instant success and crystal rectifier to any variations of the comic series. And for additional guy-friendly reads, investigate these forty Books each Man Over forty ought to wear His shelf.

6One Piece by Eiichiro Oda

One Piece popular Comic Books, best comics of all time

Year released: 1997

Copies sold: 440 million

This Japanese series, One Piece, follows the adventures of Monkey D. Luffy, a superhero in his claim when uptake a Devil Fruit that allowed for his skin to own rubber-like properties. besides his crew of pirates, the hat Pirates, Monkey searches for the world's final treasure called the "One Piece."

7Spider-Man by Marvel

Spider-Man popular Comic Books, best comics of all time

Year released: 1963

Copies sold: 360 million

One of the foremost well-liked and commercially roaring superheroes, Spider-Man, has maintained cult standing within the eyes of geeks (and even traditional people) for many years. That skillfulness makes it one amongst the simplest comics of all time.

8Asterix by Rene Goscinny, Prince Albert Uderzo, and Jean-Yves Ferri

Asterix popular Comic Books, best comics of all time

Year released: 1959 (stopped printing in 2010)

Copies sold: 352 million

Asterix, or The Adventures of Asterix, could be a French mag series following a village of Gauls as they resist Roman occupation in fifty B.C. they are doing this with the assistance of a magic beverage brewed by Druids that offers them powerful strength.

9Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz

Peanuts popular Comic Books, best comics of all time

Year released: 1950 (stopped printing in 2000)

Copies sold: three hundred million

Perhaps the foremost painting comic series, Peanuts by Charles M. Charles Munroe Schulz followed the main character Charlie Brown and every one of his friends—each with distinctive and intelligent temperament traits that allowed the story to continue for fifty years.

10Lucky Luke by Morris, Rene Goscinny

Lucky Luke popular Comic Books, best comics of all time

Year released: 1946

Copies sold: three hundred million

Lucky Luke could be a Belgian comic series set within the Yankee previous West, following the adventures of torpedo Lucky Luke, or the "man UN agency shoots quicker than his shadow." Throughout the series, Luke has been cellular against numerous villains, either fictional or real (like the physicist Brothers).

11X-Men by Marvel

X-Men popular Comic Books, best comics of all time

Year released: 1963

Copies sold: 270 million

This Yankee series centers on characters like academician X and Wolverine—humans with supernatural skills. kind of like different Yankee classics, X-Men has been custom-made into multiple roaring films.

12Dragon Ball by Akira Toriyama

Dragon Ball popular Comic Books, best comics of all time

Year released: 1984 (stopped printing in 1995)

Copies sold: 240 million

This vastly roaring Japanese media franchise follows the adventures of Son Goku from childhood to adulthood as he trains in martial arts. In Dragon Ball, Son Goku explores the planet in seven orbs— called Dragon Balls.

13Naruto by Masashi Kishimoto

Naruto popular Comic Books, best comics of all time

Year released: 1999

Copies sold: 220 million

Naruto could be a Japanese series following a young ninja, Naruto Uzumaki, UN agency dreams of turning into the Hokage, or leader of his village. This series has additionally seen an increase in quality within the U.S., wherever it has been featured in the USA these days and also the big apple Times.

14Captain America by Marvel

Captain America popular Comic Books, best comics of all time

Year released: 1941

Copies sold: 210 million

Captain America was designed as a nationalistic supersoldier throughout war II, fighting the Axis powers and demonstrating pride in Yankee troopers. Captain America was the primary Marvel Comics character to look in media outside of the caricature once it was created into a moving picture in 1944 leading Dick Purcell.

15Golgo thirteen by Takao Saito

Golgi thirteen popular Comic Books, best comics of all time

Year released: 1968

Copies sold: two hundred million

Golgo 13, a Japanese mag series, follows the title character, an associate assassin for rent. a part of the charm to the current series is that the eerie mystery of the most character, UN agency carries out assassin missions with indifference and cold calculation.

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tatiana maslany

@venusiiian  /  npc  meme  !   still  accepting.

                      AMBER  POLENSKI  a.k.a  VENUS,  ageless.   a  half - demon  practicing  a  vaguely  epicurean  philosophy  and  frankly  failing  at  it,  venus  has  no  memory  of  her  childhood,  and  in  fact  her  memories  only  begin  sometime  in  the  mid - 1950s,  at  a  home  in  manchester,  physically  a  teenager.   having  no  memories  prior,  she  quickly  learned  that  pretending  to  know  the  people  around  her  was  more  beneficial  than  admitting  her  lapse  in  memory,  and  simultaneously  delighted  in  her  discovered  talent  for  lying.   it  was  only  a  matter  of  months  before  she  had  her  family  wrapped  around  her  finger,  finding  pleasure  in  manipulating  her  foster  parents  into  blaming  neighbors  and  her  older  brother  for  incidents  she  caused  while  stealing  money  from  her  mother’s  purse  to  pay  for  her  growing  drug  addiction.   after  two  years  of  playing  family  members  off  each  other,  her  mother  finally  caught  her  stealing,  and  quickly  learned  of  all  her  other  activities  as  well,  at  which  point  amber  attacked  her  mother  and  fled  the  house.   she  hitchhiked  her  way  to  london  and  took  up  residence  in  the  slums  of  the  east  end,  where  she  lived  for  several  more  years,  wandering  from  place  to  place  and  begging,  borrowing,  and  stealing  to  feed  her  addiction.

during  this  time,  she  took  full  use  of  her  unusual  powers  of  manipulation  and  used  them  to  found  her  own  cult  following,  under  the  pretense  of  being  a  prophet  and  servant  of  the  devil.  (  ironically,  it  would  turn  out  she  wasn’t  too  far  off  from  the  truth.  )  playing  on  members’  religious  fears,  amber  was  able  to  sustain  her  addiction  for  several  more  years  by  demanding  money  or  product  to  keep  members  in  the  cult,  and  preached  a  philosophy  of  necessary  violence  and  anarchy  in  order  to  convince  them  to  steal  for  her.   though  they  quickly  built  a  reputation  of  fear  and  thuggish  behavior,  amber  was  dissatisfied.

in  the  mid - 1960s,  she  fell  headfirst  into  the  hippie  movement  and  became  enamored  with  the  ‘ good  side ‘  of  humanity,  changing  her  name  to  venus.   taken  with  the  concept  that  avoidance  of  pain / emotional  disturbance  could  be  considered  the  highest  good,  she  shifted  her  cult’s  ideals  from  anarchy  to  the  pursuit  of  a  nexus  of  freedom  from  all  pain  and  emotional  disturbance.   through  this  message,  her  cult  persisted  for  another  two  decades,  during  which  the  punk  subculture  began  to  rise  in  the  uk  and  members  began  to  question  her  supposed  powers  of  foresight.   though  venus  tried  to  quell  their  suspicions  —  and  managed  to,  for  quite  a  while,  through  her  manipulations,  as  well  as  through  the  simple  observation  that  physically,  she  had  barely  aged  —  eventually  things  came  to  a  head  when  two  members  attempted  to  attack  her.   it  was  in  this  moment  that  her  powers  fully  emerged,  and  she  ended  up  tearing  them  apart  in  her  attempts  to  defend  herself,  sending  the  rest  of  her  cult  scattering  in  fear.

horrified,  she  fled  the  scene,  only  to  run  straight  into  john  constantine,  two  years  out  of  ravenscar  and  fresh  off  a  case  for  his  friend  beano.   at  first,  he  got  involved  only  to  protect  her,  thinking  she  was  in  danger,  but  after  seeing  the  scene  and  hearing  her  account,  he  agreed  to  house  her  only  as  long  as  he  could  be  sure  she  wouldn’t  harm  him,  and  only  until  he  was  able  to  figure  out  what  had  happened.   after  a  series  of  tests  and  two  months  of  research,  constantine  was  able  to  determine  that  she  was  a  half - demon,  a  byproduct  of  a  demon  and  a  mortal  man  (  no  mortal  woman  would  have  survived  the  birth  of  a  half - demon;  their  births  are  violent  and  bloody  )  who  had  had  her  memories  wiped  before  being  dumped  in  a  foster  home,  to  live  a  normal  life  without  any  true  consciousness,  for  fear  of  her  powers  being  awakened  simply  through  her  knowing  what  she  was  doing.   it  was  a  weak  spell,  however,  and  quickly  wore  off,  hence  her  awakening.   what  constantine  did  NOT  tell  her,  however,  was  that  she  was  in  fact  a  prophet,  whose  abilities  had  probably  awoken  far  too  young,  hence  the  reason  for  her  memories  being  erased.

venus,  distraught  and  afraid,  initially  asked  constantine  to  kill  her  so  she  couldn’t  hurt  anyone  again.   he  refused,  but  suggested  she  get  in  touch  with  his  friend,  the  succubus  ellie,  who  could  potentially  rehome  her  or  even  adopt  her  as  her  own.   currently,  venus  lives  in  central  london,  working  as  an  underground  drug  dealer  for  demon - run  businesses,  though  her  prophetic  abilities  are  slowly  beginning  to  reawake.

[charlottehollywood]

Comics and Visual Narrative

The lecture began with a discussion to attempt to define the term ‘comics’. Comics can be loosely defined as sequential art. Comics don’t necessarily have to be narrative.

A global history

Comics are globally diverse and emerged in different contexts and from different narrative traditions. Across the globe, there were 3 traditional main areas of focus:

Franco-Belgian Bande Dessinée

- Came from French caricature

- e.g. TinTin (1st seen in newspapers in the 1920s)

- fed into children’s magazines e.g. Spirou that had a distinctive approach, clean lines and flat colours

- the 1960s saw more experimentation with the form that revolutionalised perception e.g. Metal Hurlant

Japanese Manga

- came from the idea of Hokusai manga which translated as whimsical pictures

- was also influenced by street theatre with illustrations on stage

- other influences include satirical cartoons e.g. Japan Punch

- the 1930s saw the arrival of manga that featured a central character and was very nationalistic e.g. Norakuro

- the 1950s saw the market getting divided by gender, age, etc. E.g. Astro Boy

American Comic Books

- came from newspapers e.g. ‘The Yellow Kid’ by R.F.Outcault (1895)

- putting these newspaper strips into books led to comic books

- ‘New Fun’ and ‘Action Comics’ were the 1st comic books and saw the 1st appearance of Superman

- Led to an explosion of superhero comics e.g. Archie Comics, EC Comics

It is difficult to define comics based on format as there are so many types. Rudolphe Topffer (‘Histoire de Mr Jabot’, 1835) has been credited as one of the inventors of comics.

Some of the comic formats include:

- Newspapers e.g. ‘The Kampung Boy’ (1979)

- Magazine forms e.g. ‘The Beano’ (weekly anthology), Manga “phone book” anthologies, comic books, Bonelliano (pocket books)

- Album forms e.g. ‘TinTin’

- Trade paperbacks e.g. ‘The Unwritten’

- Tankōbon (anthologies broken down)

- Graphic novels

- Digital forms e.g. webcomics, webtoons, motion comics, hypercomics (interactive storytelling)

Comics were traditionally associated with juvenile audiences. This lead to the 1950s anti-comics crusade as comics were seen as a connection to juvenile delinquency. Fredric Wortham’s book ‘Seduction of the Innocent’ led to the establishment of the Comics Code Authority. This impacted what could be represented and was an act of censorship.

Genres (American comics)

- Superhero

- Romance

- Crime

- Horror

Form

Iconostasis is the idea that we see all panels at once, as well as individually

‘Gasoline Alley’ (Frank King, 1918) was an example of a comic which challenged form as the images crossed many panels

(Continued in next post)

[art-of-thebeano]

Dear dear child

Artist: David Law

[scotianostra]

Happy Birthday our longest running comic, first published on July 30th 1938 the Beano is 83 years old today! 

An ostrich called Big Eggo was the front page star, and the comic only cost 2d. The central composition was also different. While the modern Beano is entirely based on comic strips, the early Beano had stories told with pictures with text beneath explaining what was going on, and stories told only with text. It also lacked many of the characters that are synonymous with it now, Dennis, Rodger and Minnie only arriving in the golden years of the 1950s.

A few months before The Beano came its sister paper, The Dandy, and a year after another sister, The Magic comic. Due to the Second World War however, only two of these were to survive. The war meant that comics had to use fewer pages, by printed in lesser numbers and less often. This meant that the Beano and Dandy were made smaller, only available to those who pre-ordered them, and were only printed on alternate weeks. They provided a vital service in the war, warning children to leave alone things like mines on beaches and printing stories to outline the difference between Nazis and normal Germans and so teaching children not to demonize people based on nationality. They also pictured the enemy leaders as bungling fools, such as in The Beano strip, Musso the Wop and in the many times that Lord Snooty and pals went to give the Fuhrer a piece of their mind.

The 1950s is thought to be the golden age of The Beano as so many of the most popular and long running characters were created then, such as Dennis the Menace, Minnie the Minx, Rodger the Dodger and the characters that would eventually become known as The Bash Street Kids, whose original incarnation was a basically identical story called When The Bell Rings.

As well as it’s regular characters, the Beano also had it’s supply of irregulars, who popped in every so often for one off-stories. These were usually less cartoony, the characters looking more realistic and detailed, and the stories themselves were often more serious. These stories included General Jumbo and The Iron Fish. A more recent example would be Billy The Cat.

[guitarplanet-fender-gibson]

ギブソン編第八回：「Les Paul Custom③」

皆様明けましておめでとうございます。ギタープラネットエレキ本館の増田です。

2019年になりました。昨年のギブソンはいろいろありました。今年の動向も注目ですね。

当ブログは今年も不定期で更新していきますので、チェックしていただけますと幸いです。

さて、第八回目の今回も、前回に引き続き、「Les Paul Custom」について、ご紹介していきます。

ギブソン編第六回：「Les Paul Custom①」はこちらから、

ギブソン編第七回：「Les Paul Custom②」はこちらからご確認いただけます！

さて、前回は「1950年代のレスポール・カスタム」に焦点を当てました。 今回は、50年代のアメリカン・ロックの時代から、その影響を受け大きく発展した、60年代以降のイギリス中心の音楽と合わせた当時、現在の製品では「1968レスポール」の頃の話です。

・1960年代~1970年代初頭のレスポール・カスタム

ご周知の通り、1961年より「SG」にモデル・チェンジする形でそれまでの所謂「Les Paul Model」は姿を消しますが、1960年代に多くのギタリストが使用したことで再生産の声が高まり、ギブソン社はLes Paul氏との再契約、1968年頃より市場に「Les Paul Model」が再び流通するようになります。 「レスポール・スタンダード」はLes Paul氏本人が強く拘った「P-90」ピックアップを搭載したゴールド・トップ、「レスポール・カスタム」は2つのハムバッカーを搭載した仕様となり、「スタンダード」と同様メイプル・トップ仕様になりました。

この再生産の声が大きくなった理由は、60年代に多くのギタリストがレスポール・モデルを使用し、名曲・名演を残したことに他なりません。 若きEric Claptonが「Beano」と呼ばれる1960年製のレスポール・モデルを使用し、Marshallアンプと合わせたドライブ・サウンドは多くのギタリストに衝撃を与え、そのライブを見たJeff Beckは、「レスポールを使わないと時代に置いて行かれる」とまで感じ、レスポールを手にしたとも言われています。 更にこの頃、「Tone Bender」を始めとする「ファズ」が登場。初期の個体はJeff BeckはじめMick Ronson、Marc Bolanらも使用していますよね。

この新しい「ファズ」というエフェクターの登場による深い歪みには、ノイズ等の理由でハムバッカーを搭載したレスポールが見事にマッチしたこと、それによるハードなバンド・サウンドによる「ハード・ロック」というジャンルが確立されたことで、レスポールは更に多くのシーンで活躍することになります。

さて、レスポール・カスタムの話に戻ります。 この頃のレスポール・カスタムは「1968 Les Paul Custom」としてリイシューが製作されています。 前述の通りボディ・トップにメイプルを採用していることが50年代との大きな違いで、これにより、ウォームで深い50年代のトーンに対し、 深い歪みを用いた際もサウンドに輪郭が出て、当年代のロックに向いた「ハード・ロック寄りなロック・トーン」と言えると思います。 (もちろん、ギブソンが狙ってやったというわけではないと思いますが。)

2018年、300本限定でリリースされた「50th Anniversary 1968 Les Paul Custom VOS」は、この当時のサウンドを見事に再現しています。 当アニバーサリー・モデルのために新たに製作された「68 Custom Humbucker」ピックアップ、オリジナルから採寸された厚すぎないネック・グリップからなる、50年代仕様に対し力強く輪郭のはっきりしていながらも、''イナタさ''ともとれるコンプ感等、あの当時のロック・トーンを思い起こされる見事な完成度です。

現地出張の際、生産完了間際だった当モデルを、3本厳選し、��保して参りました。当店在庫の「~50th Anniversary~ 1968 Les Paul Custom VOS」下記URLからご確認いただけます!!

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次回に続きます。

増田

ナッシュビル現地選定品やカスタム・オーダーモデル、中古品等豊富な在庫!! ギブソン・カスタムショップ(ソリッド・ボディ)在庫一覧はコチラ!! ギブソン・カスタムショップ買取''超''強化中!!査定リストはコチラ!!

Twitterはコチラ!!

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"Charley's War" and Space:1999 art, rare 1950 promotional Eagle offered in latest ComPal comics auction

“Charley’s War” and Space:1999 art, rare 1950 promotional Eagle offered in latest ComPal comics auction

The latest ComPal comic auction catalogue and features “Charley’s War” art, a promotional Eagle rarity and much more among some 385 lots in total, including US comics. The last ComPal auction back in May achieved some record prices with £5600 for the fourth Beano Book (1943), a record price for a non-Number One annual and £4250 for the Dandy Monster Comic of the same year. Both copies were from…

[henriettahenrietta]

Bowie’s Top 100

-Interviews with Francis Bacon by David Sylvester

-Billy Liar by Keith Waterhouse

-Room At The Top by John Braine

-On Having No Head by Douglas Harding

-Kafka Was The Rage by Anatole Broyard

-A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

-City of Night by John Rechy

-The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz

-Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

-Iliad by Homer

-As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

-Tadanori Yokoo by Tadanori Yokoo

-Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Döblin

-Inside The Whale And Other Essays by George Orwell

-Mr. Norris Changes Trains by Christopher Isherwood

-Halls Dictionary of Subjects And Symbols In Art by James A. Hall

-David Bomberg by Richard Cork

-Blast by Wyndham Lewis

-Passing by Nella Larson

-Beyond The Brillo Box by Arthur C. Danto

-The Origin of Consciousness In The Breakdown Of The Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes

-In Bluebird’s Castle by George Steiner

-Hawksmoor by Peter Ackroyd

-The Divided Self by R.D. Laing

-The Stranger by Albert Camus

-Infants Of The Spring by Wallace Thurman

-The Quest For Christa T by Christa Wolf

-The Songlines by Bruce Chatwin

-Nights At The Circus by Angela Carter

-The Master And Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

-The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark

-Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

-Herzog by Saul Bellow

-Puckoon by Spike Milligan

-Black Boy by Richard Wright

-The Great Gatsby by F.Scott Fitzgerald

-The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea by Yukio Mishima

-Darkness At Noon by Arthur Koestler

-The Waste Land by T.S. Elliot

-McTeague by Frank Norris

-Money by Martin Amis

-The Outsider by Colin Wilson

-Strange People by Frank Edwards

-English Journey by J.B. Priestley

-A Confederacy Of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

-The Day Of The Locust by Nathanael West

-1984 by George Orwell

-The Life And Times Of Little Richard by Charles White

-Aopbopaloobop Alopbamboom: The Golden Age of Rock by Nik Cohn

-Mystery Train by Greil Marcus

-Beano (comics, 1950s)

-Raw (comics, 1980s)

-White Noise by Don DeLillo

-Sweat Soul Music: Rhythm and Blues and the Southern Dream of Freedom by Peter Guralnick

-Silence: Lectures and Writing by John Cage

-Writers At Work: The Paris Review Interviews edited by Malcolm Cowley

-The Sound of the City: The Rise of Rock and Roll by Charlie Gillete

-Octobriana and the Russian Underground by Peter Sadecky

-The Street by Ann Petry

-Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon

-Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby, Jr.

-A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn

-The Age of American Unreason by Susan Jacoby

-Metropolitan Life by Fran Lebowitz

-The Coast of Utopia by Tom Stoppard

-The Bridge by Hart Crane

-All The Emperor’s Horses by David Kidd

-Fingersmith by Sarah Waters

-Earthly Powers by Anthony Burgess

-The 42nd Parallel by John Dos Passos

-Tales of Beatnik Glory by Ed Saunders

-The Bird Artist by Howard Norman

-Nowhere To Run: The Story of Soul Music by Gerri Hirshey

-Before the Deluge by Otto Friedrich

-Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence From Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson by Camille Paglia

-The American Way of Death by Jessica Mitford

-In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

-Lady Chatterly’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence

-Teenage by Jon Savage

-Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh

-The Hidden Persuaders by Vance Packard

-The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

-Viz (comics, early 1980s)

-Private Eye (satirical magazine, 1960s-1980s)

-Selected Poems by Frank O’Hara

-The Trial of Henry Kissinger by Christopher Hitchens

-Flaubert’s Parrot by Julian Barnes

-Maldodor by Comte de Lautréamont

-On The Road by Jack Kerouac

-Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonders by Lawrence Weschler

-Zanoni by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

-Transcendental Magic, Its Doctrine and Ritual by Eliphas Lévi

-The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels

-The Leopard by Giusseppe Di Lampedusa

-Inferno by Dante Alighieri

-A Grave For A Dolphin by Alberto Denti di Pirajno

-The Insult by Rupert Thomson

-In Between The Sheets by Ian McEwan

-A People’s Tragedy by Orlando Figes

-Journey Into The Whirlwind by Eugenia Ginzburg

“The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time.” -David Bowie