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paw broon:
@Paw: Back to the 1940s, I have to read the strip you linked. Do you know if there is some list of british comics dealing with WW2, nazism, national socialisms, et al (either in satire or serious stories)?
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No, there isn't a list as such but there were so many that it would be difficult to compile.  Everything from Oor Wullie in the Sunday Post via Giles to all those titles and more that I listed above.  Most of the anthology story-papers and comics had war stories, The Victor mentioned above being a prime example and there was Battle Picture Library; War Picture Library; Air ace Picture Library; Battler Britton et al.
More Victor covers here:-
http://www.kellyscomics.com/victor-comics.php
This whole site has many D.C. Thomson covers and is worth a look anyway.
Just found this article:- www.sussex.ac.uk/history/documents/ems
Extremely interesting.  I hope it's of some use to you.
And here is more Giles, this time during W.W.2 :- http://www.cartoons.ac.uk/collections/CG/1/1/1

With my shiny new computer up and running, I'm dismayed to find that my scanner/printer doesn't seem to be compatible with it.  Typical.  More expense. I'm trying to scan an Oor Wullie page from 1939 which makes fun of Hitler.  I'll keep trying.

watson387:
paw broom: Before you scrap it and buy new, make sure to check your scanner manufacturer's web page for new software, drivers, etc. Don't trust Microsoft/Apple/Linux to find them for you because usually they fail miserably. ;)

paw broon:
"Before you scrap it and buy new, make sure to check your scanner manufacturer's web page for new software, drivers, etc. Don't trust Microsoft/Apple/Linux to find them for you because usually they fail miserably. Wink" watson387
Thanks.  I tried the website and found drivers but I still can't access the scan function as previously despite reloading the Epson disk. But I can scan.  Don't ask 'cos I don't know.
So, I'm going to try to post an Oor Wullie page here.  If it's wrong size - too big, could a mod. please either resize it or delete it.  Not very good at this.

"@Paw: Back to the 1940s, I have to read the strip you linked. Do you know if there is some list of british comics dealing with WW2, nazism, national socialisms, et al (either in satire or serious stories)?"  vaillant
Vaillant and anyone else who's interested, here's an Oor Wullie page from 1939 which makes fun of Hitler.  The text is written in broad Scots so you might not get much from the script.
http://i980.photobucket.com/albums/ae289/masquerouge/OorWullieHitler001644x800.jpg

vaillant:

--- Quote ---It's mostly nostalgia, let's be frank.
What one "discovers" in his youth, will stay with him forever.
And will be glorified.
I doubt that modern youth will take a liking to those (often crudely drawn) golden age classics.
Even I don't. That's why I start with the 50s.
EC rules. Hehe.

--- End quote ---

Hi tilliban. May be to some degree (surely not in its entirety otherwise you’d deny any value to criticism, which nonetlehess is inherent and can’t be honestly avoided, even when we are speaking of "taste"), but then we must see what "nostalgia" actually is. It’s never have been clear to me. Nostalgia may simply be one of the strongest indicators of something pointing deep within the human earth.

Now, you are telling me you read EC comics as a kid in Germany? I wasn’t aware of such publications.
Now, I have never liked EC in particular, but it took very little for me to become thoroughly fascinated with the golden age. And this has obviously nothing to do with nostalgia as you seemed to intend when you spoke, because it would plainly stop to Marvel's early silver age.

There is also another consideration, and this comes from temperament. I think I am more fascinated by drama than comedy, while I see you are a comical actor (if I get it right from your site). Now, it's not that comedy has to map out tragedy or vice-versa, but it's undeniable there is a basic appreciation of a story in one of the two keys, be it adventurous or not.
Personally, I truly enjoy comical aspects in a dramatic, even highly dramatic story, but I am not so attracted to horror "per se".

There is a very interesting study (I recall) published by a french magazine in the 1990s which looked at Kirby’s "Fourth World" applying to it the two aspects of comedy and tragedy as they were in ancient greece. Maybe he jumps to partially arbitrary conclusions, but I recall it’s very interesting, and it helped me appreciate the stories, as I read a good part of them afterwards.
This also reminds me that there aren’t just "female furies" or Big Barda on New Genesis and Apokolips, but also Bekka, and definitely charming female plain human characters (not to mention Beautiful Dreamer). I say this for narf. :)

@Paw: Many thanks for all the references and information: I’ll have to delve into it, now.
In fact, broad scots doesn’t seem exaggeratedly difficult, well not more than american slang anyway… :P

narfstar:
It is funny that I did not like Kirby's big women but in real life I prefer some meat on the bone  ;) But to me Kirby's women looked like weigh lifters and I do not like that look on women. But I do not like the size 2 women as much as the size 10-14 which are more huggable and soft like women should be.

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