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C. H. Chapman
Charles Henry Chapman (1879–1972), who signed his work as C. H. Chapman, was a British Illustration, illustrator and cartoonist best known for his work in boys' story papers such as ''The Magnet'' where the character Billy Bunter appeared. He later illustrated Bunter cartoon strips and several Bunter books published in the 1950s and 1960s. Life Chapman was born in Thetford, Norfolk, on 1 April 1879, and attended Kendrick School in Reading, Berkshire, where he created and illustrated a school magazine, ''The Kendrick Comet''. He studied art at the University of Reading, after which he was apprenticed to an architect. He had his first drawing published in the story paper ''The Captain'' in 1900, and over the next ten years drew for story papers and comics including ''Marvel'', ''Pluck'', the ''Boy's Friend'', ''Boy's Herald'', ''Boy's Leader'', ''Illustrated Chips'', ''Comic Cuts'', ''Jester'', ''Big Budget'', and ''Ally Sloper's Half Holiday''.Alan Clark, ''Dictionary of British ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Illustration
An illustration is a decoration, interpretation or visual explanation of a text, concept or process, designed for integration in print and digital published media, such as posters, flyers, magazines, books, teaching materials, animations, video games and films. An illustration is typically created by an illustrator. Digital illustrations are often used to make websites and apps more user-friendly, such as the use of emojis to accompany digital type. llustration also means providing an example; either in writing or in picture form. The origin of the word "illustration" is late Middle English (in the sense ‘illumination; spiritual or intellectual enlightenment’): via Old French from Latin ''illustratio''(n-), from the verb ''illustrare''. Illustration styles Contemporary illustration uses a wide range of styles and techniques, including drawing, painting, printmaking, collage, montage, digital design, multimedia, 3D modelling. Depending on the purpose, illustra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Big Budget
''Big Budget'' was a British comic and story paper which ran weekly from 1897 until 1909. History Published by C. Arthur Pearson, ''Big Budget'' was first published on 19 June 1897. Initially comprising three eight page sections; ''The Big Budget'' (a comic), ''The Comrade's Budget'', and ''The Story Budget'', the latter two being text fiction sections. By 1898 the page count was reduced to 20 with all the sections merged into one comic. In 1905 it incorporated a story paper entitled, ''The Boys' Leader'' with the comic strips started gradually disappearing until it became a fully fledged story paper. Its title changed to ''The Comet'' in 1909 and lasted for just 14 further issues. Notable contributors include Jack Butler Yeats (''Signor McCoy the Circus'', ''John Duff-Pie'', ''Little Boy Pink'', and ''Kiroskewero the Detective''), and Ernest Wilkinson (''Doings of Von Puff, Von Eye, Iko Italiano and Von Sausage the Dog''), C. H. Chapman, and Ralph Hodgson Ralph Hodgson (9 S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People From Thetford
A person ( : people) is a being that has certain capacities or attributes such as reason, morality, consciousness or self-consciousness, and being a part of a culturally established form of social relations such as kinship, ownership of property, or legal responsibility. The defining features of personhood and, consequently, what makes a person count as a person, differ widely among cultures and contexts. In addition to the question of personhood, of what makes a being count as a person to begin with, there are further questions about personal identity and self: both about what makes any particular person that particular person instead of another, and about what makes a person at one time the same person as they were or will be at another time despite any intervening changes. The plural form "people" is often used to refer to an entire nation or ethnic group (as in "a people"), and this was the original meaning of the word; it subsequently acquired its use as a plural form of per ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1972 Deaths
Year 197 ( CXCVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Magius and Rufinus (or, less frequently, year 950 '' Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 197 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * February 19 – Battle of Lugdunum: Emperor Septimius Severus defeats the self-proclaimed emperor Clodius Albinus at Lugdunum (modern Lyon). Albinus commits suicide; legionaries sack the town. * Septimius Severus returns to Rome and has about 30 of Albinus's supporters in the Senate executed. After his victory he declares himself the adopted son of the late Marcus Aurelius. * Septimius Severus forms new naval units, manning all the triremes in Italy with heavily armed troops for war in the East. His soldiers embark ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1879 Births
Events January–March * January 1 – The Specie Resumption Act takes effect. The United States Note is valued the same as gold, for the first time since the American Civil War. * January 11 – The Anglo-Zulu War begins. * January 22 – Anglo-Zulu War – Battle of Isandlwana: A force of 1,200 British soldiers is wiped out by over 20,000 Zulu warriors. * January 23 – Anglo-Zulu War – Battle of Rorke's Drift: Following the previous day's defeat, a smaller British force of 140 successfully repels an attack by 4,000 Zulus. * February 3 – Mosley Street in Newcastle upon Tyne (England) becomes the world's first public highway to be lit by the electric incandescent light bulb invented by Joseph Swan. * February 8 – At a meeting of the Royal Canadian Institute, engineer and inventor Sandford Fleming first proposes the global adoption of standard time. * March 3 – United States Geological Survey is founded. * March 11 – Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tokers Green
Tokers Green is a hamlet in South Oxfordshire, England, about north of Reading, Berkshire. Its village neighbours are Chazey Heath and Kidmore End Kidmore End is a village and civil parish in South Oxfordshire, centred NNW of Reading, Berkshire, an important regional centre of commerce, research and engineering. It is in the low Chiltern Hills, partly in the Area of Outstanding Natural .... Tokers Green is a village of houses apart from a farm. It stretches on two roads, Tokers Green Lane and Rokeby Drive. References * List of places in Oxfordshire External links Villages in Oxfordshire South Oxfordshire District {{Oxfordshire-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Minnitt
Frank John Minnitt (3 September 1894 – 12 May 1958) was a British illustrator and cartoonist who drew for over 100 comic papers from the 1920s to the 1950s. He is perhaps best known for his depictions of Billy Bunter in the comic '' Knockout'' between 1939 and 1958. Minnitt was born in Southgate in London in 1894, the youngest of five sons of Mary Ann Smith (1854-1943) and William Robinson Minnitt (1858-1927). Educated at the Hugh Myddleton School in Islington, aged 14 he was the London Junior Boxing Champion; later, he followed his father into working for the General Post Office (GPO) before serving with the Coldstream Guards during World War I. He was sent to France where he suffered injuries from mustard gas which affected him for the rest of his life. After the war Minnitt returned to the General Post Office, later working as a welder with a taxi firm before becoming an artist. A completely self-taught cartoonist, around 1920 Minnitt began to contribute single joke c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Knockout (UK Comics)
''Knockout'' may refer to one of two British comics. The original series, published by the Amalgamated Press (later Fleetway Publications), started on 4 March 1939 and ended on 16 February 1963, when it merged with '' Valiant''. The second series, published by IPC Magazines, ran from 12 June 1971 to 23 June 1973, when it merged with ''Whizzer and Chips''. First series The first series, titled ''Knockout Comics'', was launched by editor Percy Clarke and sub-editor Leonard Matthews in 1939 to compete with ''The Dandy'' and ''The Beano'' (launched by DC Thomson in 1937 and 1938 respectively). Like its rivals, it featured a mixture of humour and adventure strips and illustrated prose stories. Matthews recruited Hugh McNeill,Alan Clark, ''Dictionary of British Comic Artists, Writers and Editors'', The British Library, 1998, p. 106-107 a former ''Beano'' artist, as the title's main humour artist, and his strips '' Our Ernie'' and '' Deed-a-Day Danny'' were very popular.Alan Clark, ''D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greyfriars School
Greyfriars School is a fictional English public school used as a setting in the long-running series of stories by the writer Charles Hamilton, who wrote under the pen-name of Frank Richards. Although the stories are focused on the Remove (or lower fourth form), whose most famous pupil was Billy Bunter, other characters also featured on a regular basis. Time is frozen in the Greyfriars stories; although the reader sees the passing of the seasons, the characters' ages do not change and they remain in the same year groups. From 1908 to 1940, the stories appeared in ''The Magnet'', in a total of 1,683 weekly issues. After 1940, the stories continued to appear in book form until Hamilton's death in 1961. ''Billy Bunter of Greyfriars School'' was broadcast as a BBC television series from 19 February 1951 to 22 July 1961. A comic strip was published in ''Knockout'' (drawn by Frank Minnitt) from 1939 to 1958, and then drawn by various other artists until ''Knockout'' merged with '' V ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Hamilton (writer)
Charles Harold St. John Hamilton (8 August 1876 – 24 December 1961) was an English writer, specialising in writing long-running series of stories for weekly magazines about recurrent casts of characters, his most frequent and famous genre being boys' public school stories, though he also wrote in other genres. He used a variety of pen-names, generally using a different name for each set of characters he wrote about, the most famous being Frank Richards for the Greyfriars School stories featuring Billy Bunter. Other important pen-names included Martin Clifford (for St Jim's), Owen Conquest (for Rookwood) and Ralph Redway (for The Rio Kid). He also wrote hundreds of stories under his real name such as the Ken King stories for ''The Modern Boy.'' He is estimated to have written about 100 million words in his lifetime and has featured in the ''Guinness Book of Records'' as the world's most prolific author. Vast amounts of his output are available on the Friardale website. Worki ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ally Sloper's Half Holiday
''Ally Sloper's Half Holiday'' was a British comics magazine, first published on 3 May 1884. It is regarded to be the first comic strip magazine to feature a recurring character. Star Ally Sloper, a blustery, lazy schemer often found "sloping" through alleys to avoid his landlord and other creditors, had debuted in 1867 in the satirical magazine '' Judy'' — created by writer and fledgling artist Charles Henry Ross and inked and later fully illustrated by his French wife Emilie de Tessier under the pseudonym "Marie Duval" (or "Marie DuVal"; sources differ). The "half holiday" referred to in the title was the practice in Victorian Britain of allowing the workers home at lunchtime on a Saturday, a practice that also established the kick-off times of football matches. Publication history The black-and-white weekly comic paper ''Ally Sloper's Half Holiday'', typically of eight tabloid pages and priced one penny, was first published on 3 May 1884, a short time after Ross, had s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Comic Cuts
''Comic Cuts'' was a British comic magazine. It was published from 1890 to 1953, lasting for 3006 issues. It was created by the reporter Alfred Harmsworth through his company Amalgamated Press (AP). In its early days, it inspired other publishers to produce rival comic magazines. ''Comic Cuts'' held the record for the most issues of a British weekly comic for 46 years, until ''The Dandy'' overtook it in 1999. Publication history The first issue of ''Comic Cuts'' sold 118,864 copies, with circulation growing to around 300,000 soon after. During its lifetime, the comic merged with many others, including ''Golden Penny'' (1928), ''Jolly Comic'' (1939), and ''Larks'' (1940). ''Comic Cuts'' finally disappeared in September 1953 when it was merged with '' Knockout''. Content Its first issue was an assortment of reprints from American publications. In other media The comic is mentioned in G. K. Chesterton's 1905 book ''Heretics'' and in the 1910 book ''Alarms and Discursion ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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