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General Category => Comic Related Discussion => Topic started by: tymime on January 07, 2014, 02:09:02 AM
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I've been trying to find any titles at all unique to the United Kingdom with funny animals. But there doesn't seem to be any research on the subject.
Can anybody name one or two? Preferably something from the Golden Age.
(My reasons are that I'm an amateur cartoonist and I have an animal character who parodies British villains, and the story's setting is in the 1950s, and I wanted to learn more about what UK comics were like then.)
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Piles of them, BUT, do you mean Donald Duck types, or cuddly, or Fox and Crow type?
To be going on with, many of the animal characters appeared in weekly anthology titles and some of the following are DC Thomson publications, so be very careful re. copyright.
Korky The Cat:-
http://classicsfromthecomics.wikia.com/wiki/Korky_The_Cat
http://www.comicvine.com/korky-the-cat/4005-25371/
and in a tribute to Charles Griggs:-
http://petergraycartoonsandcomics.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/charles-griggs-tribute1916-2013.html
Biffo the Bear:-
http://www.comicvine.com/biffo-the-bear/4005-30166/
Big Eggo:-
http://www.beano.com/retro-beano/big-eggo?decade=1940
Mickey the Monkey:
http://www.britishcomics.com/Topper/index.htm
Pup Parade:-
http://www.beano.com/retro-beano/pup-parade
http://comics.brucelaing.id.au/pups02/
Other animal strips include one of my all time favourites, Rupert Bear and this strip is owned by Express Newspapers.:-
http://niul.org/gallery/rupert-bear-books
I have just stumbled onto this page - a strip I knew nothing about:-
http://britishgoldenagecomics.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/william-wards-sheriff-fox.html
This is Harold Hare:-
http://www.illustrationartgallery.com/acatalog/info_McNeillHHSwing.html
However, a definitely non-British strips but, like Rupert, one of my all time favourites is the Dutch strip Tom Poes and I cannot recommend it highly enough:-
http://www.heerbommel.info/tom-poes-heer-bommel/tom-poes-en-de-kwanten/plakboek
Much more but this might not be quite what you want.
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That's strange, I guess I forgot to sign up for e-mail notification. Don't know how I missed this!
This will be certainly be a good start on researching these sort of comics. I hope I can find examples online to read, or possibly reprints.
Piles of them, BUT, do you mean Donald Duck types, or cuddly, or Fox and Crow type?
Any kind will do, really, but something with a recurring classic villain type would work, especially if he's an animal too.