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1930 In Comics
Events and publications January * January 10: '' Quick & Flupke'' by Hergé debuts in ''Le Petit Vingtième''. * January 13: The first ''Mickey Mouse'' comic strip, written by Walt Disney, drawn by Ub Iwerks, is published. After a month Iwerks hands the series over to Win Smith, who will continue to draw it until May. The first Mickey Mouse adventure (''Lost on a Desert Island'') marks the comics debut of Minnie Mouse too. Five months later, Floyd Gottfredson takes over. * January 27: The first episode of Tack Knight's ''Little Folks'' is published. It will run until 1933. April * April 1: First episode of ''Mickey Mouse In Death Valley,'' the first Mickey adventure written and drawn (in collaboration) by Floyd Gottfredson, though Win Smith is still the main artist. The story sees the comics debut of various recurring characters ( Clarabelle Cow, Horace Horsecollar, the Minnie's uncle Mortimer and the two villains Sylvestre Shyster and Pete). May * Floyd Gottfreds ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quick & Flupke
''The exploits of Quick and Flupke'' (french: link=no, Quick et Flupke, gamins de Bruxelles, ) was a comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé. Serialised weekly from January 1930 to 1940 in , the children's supplement of conservative Belgian newspaper ("''The Twentieth Century''"), the series ran alongside Hergé's better known ''The Adventures of Tintin''. It continued for one extra year in ''Le Soir Jeunesse'' until 1941. It revolves around the lives of two misbehaving boys, Quick and Flupke, who live in Brussels, and the conflict that they get into with a local policeman. In 1983, the series provided the basis for an animated television adaptation. History Background Abbé Norbert Wallez appointed Hergé editor of a children's supplement for the Thursday issues of , titled ("''The Little Twentieth''"). Carrying strong Catholic and fascist messages, many of its passages were explicitly anti-semitic. For this new venture, Hergé illustrated ''L'Extraordinaire Aventure d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Little King
''The Little King'' is a 1930-1975 American gag-a-day comic strip created by Otto Soglow, telling its stories in a style using images and very few words, as in pantomime. Publication history Soglow's character first appeared on June 7, 1930, in ''The New Yorker'' and soon showed signs of becoming a successful strip. ''The Little King'' began publications in comic book issues from 1933, was licensed for a 1933–34 series of animated cartoons by Van Beuren Studios and featured in advertising campaigns for Standard Oil from ''The Comics Journal'' #286 and Royal Pudding (1955). It became evident early on that William Randolph Hearst was determined to add ''The Little King'' to his King Features Syndicate newspaper strips, but he was hindered by Soglow's contractual obligations with ''The New Yorker''. While seeing out the final period of the contract, Soglow produced a placeholder strip for King Features, '' The Ambassador'', quite similar to ''The Little King'' in characters, style ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Wizard (DC Thomson)
''The Wizard'' was launched as a weekly British story paper on 22 September 1922, published by It was merged with ''The Rover'' in September 1963, becoming ''Rover and Wizard''. The last issue of the original ''Wizard'' was number 1,970; ''Rover and Wizard'' continued until the ''Wizard'' name was dropped — becoming ''The Rover'' in August 1969. ''The Wizard'' was relaunched as a comic book on 14 February 1970, and continued until 10 June 1978. Regular features * ''Blazing Ace of Spades'' — fictional RAF fighter pilot of the Second World War * ''The Q Team'' — an association football team assembled by the mysterious Ka * ''Ruthless Ruff'' — fictional RFC flying ace of the Great War * '' Wilson the Wonder Athlete'' — the sporting adventures of a heroic character named William Wilson * ''Wolf of Kabul'' — fictional agent of the British Intelligence Corps on the North-West Frontier Province The North-West Frontier Province (NWFP; ps, شمال ٠... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allan Morley
Allan Morley ( Scarborough, North Yorkshire, Great Britain, 29 April 1895 - Thanet, Kent 5 September 1960) was a British comic artist. He first worked for DC Thomson in 1925, drawing a number of comic strips for the ''Sunday Post'' and for DC Thomson's story papers including ''The Wizard'', where he drew Nero and Zero. He also drew a number of strips for both ''The Beano'' and ''The Dandy'' from the late thirties until the early fifties. He drew Keyhole Kate, Hungry Horace and Freddie the Fearless Fly, three long-running strips which first appeared in the first issue of ''The Dandy''. He also drew a number of strips for ''The Beano'', including Big Fat Joe, which appeared in the comic's first issue. The last time he drew for ''The Beano'' was the last strip of The Magic Lollipops in issue 475 (25 August 1951). Allan Morley died in Kent on 5 September 1960. Legacy Allan Morley was held in such high regard by DC Thomson that they said the comics might close without him. Along ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nero And Zero
''Nero and Zero'' was a comic strip originally in the boys' story paper ''The Wizard'', published by DC Thomson. This strip started on 1 November 1930 and was originally drawn by Allan Morley. The strip featured the subtitle the "Rollicking Romans" and featured two bumbling Roman guards called Nero and Zero who guarded Caesar. The strip lasted in ''the Wizard'' for ten years.Comic Speech Bubbles. Drawn by Tom Bannister The strip also appeared in ''''s first issue. The strip was later resurrected for the '' Buzz'' comic and the pair featured in the first issue. This s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ladislaus Kmoch
Ladislaus ( or according to the case) is a masculine given name of Slavic origin. It may refer to: * Ladislaus of Hungary (other) * Ladislaus I (other) * Ladislaus II (other) * Ladislaus III (other) * Ladislaus IV (other) * Ladislaus the Posthumous or Ladislaus V of Hungary (1440–1457), also King of Bohemia * Ladislaus of Naples (1377–1414), King of Naples * Wenceslaus III of Bohemia (1289–1306), who took the name Ladislaus when he was crowned King of Hungary in 1301 * Ladislaus Bortkiewicz (1868–1931), Russian economist and statistician * Ladislaus Hunyadi (1431–1457), Hungarian nobleman * Ladislaus Jagiello (other) * Ladislaus Kán (other) * Ladislaus Kurpiel (1883–1930), Austrian footballer * Ladislaus Pyrker (1772–1847), Hungarian Cistercian abbot, archbishop and poet * Ladislaus Perera Ranasinghe (1913-1983), Sri Lankan Sinhala actor * Ladislaus Rátót (died 1328), Hungarian nobleman and lando ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tobias Seicherl
Tobias Seicherl is the title character of a comic drawn by Viennese caricaturist Ladislaus Kmoch (alias Ludwig Kmoch, 1897–1971), a self-taught cartoonist. The comic appeared as a daily strip in the Austrian tabloid 'Das Kleine Blatt' published by Vorwärts-Verlag from October 5, 1930. Tobias Seicherl can be regarded as the first continental European daily comic strip. The comic strip has been written in Viennese and was one of the first European comics featuring balloons. ‘Seicherl’ has two meanings in Viennese, which are semantically connected. The original meaning of ‘small sieve’ later gave rise to the second meaning of 'weakling'; someone who lacks moral character - letting everything ‘sieve straight through’ them. Main characters Tobias Seicherl, a typical petit bourgeois, was drunk on many occasions and often took to strolling through the streets of Vienna with his walking stick, pipe and dog named Struppi. It's somewhat ironic that the dog was the voice of re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marcus Mouse
The Mickey Mouse universe is a fictional universe, fictional shared universe which is the setting for stories involving The Walt Disney Company, Disney cartoon characters Mickey Mouse, Mickey and Minnie Mouse, Pluto (Disney), Pluto, Goofy, and many other characters. The universe originated from the ''Mickey Mouse (film series), Mickey Mouse'' animated short films produced by Disney starting in 1928. Still, its first consistent version was created by Floyd Gottfredson in the Mickey Mouse (comic strip), ''Mickey Mouse'' newspaper comic strip. Real-world versions also exist in Disneyland and Tokyo Disneyland, called Mickey's Toontown. Since 1990, the city in which Mickey lives is typically called #Mouseton, Mouseton in American comics. In modern continuity, Mouseton is often depicted as being located in the fictional U.S. state of Calisota, analogous to Northern California. This fictional state was invented by comics writer Carl Barks in 1952 as the location for Donald Duck's home ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |