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Colonel Blink
Colonel Blink (tagline: "The Short-Sighted Gink") was a British comic strip, drawn by Tom Bannister in November 1958 for the majority of its run, with a few later strips being drawn by Bill Ritchie and Gordon Bell (artist), Gordon Bell in the same style as Bannister. The strip was published in the comics magazine ''The Beezer''. Denis Gifford in his Encyclopedia of Comic Characters (1987) attributes his creation to "Carmichael." His latest appearances were in the reprint Classics from the Comics series and the associated Beano and Dandy reprint annuals. Concept Colonel Blink, whose name was a pun on ''Colonel Blimp'', is a former military colonel who is short-sighted. Many of the one-page gags are about his bluff, no-nonsense treatment of people and situations that are a result of him not being able to see or discern what is going on around him. With the usual comic disregard for foolish internal consistencies, every other story involved his driving down the road in a car that h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Bannister
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Blinky (comics)
''Blinky'' is a British comic strip, created by Nick Brennan, and published in the comic book ''The Beezer and Topper'' from 1990 until 1994 and in ''The Dandy'' until 2007. Concept Blinky is a young boy with large, thick glasses through whom he sees a galaxy very different from the rest of the world, which often leads to chaos. His trusty sidekick, Yellow Dog, always seems to get caught up in Blinky's adventures, and is very keen to get rid of him. When Blinky first appeared in 1990, the design of the character seemed to be a younger version of an earlier Beezer comic strip called '' Colonel Blink''. However, when ''The Beezer and Topper'' folded, and Nick Brennan began drawing the strip in January 1994, Blinky took on a new look that was now quite unlike Colonel Blink. The design was altered further over the next few years. Following the relaunch in late 2007, Nick Brennan, the artist, left ''The Dandy'', and so there were no Blinky strips being produced from then on. H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Comics Characters Introduced In 1958
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Fictional Characters With Disabilities
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Fictional Colonels
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British Comics Characters
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DC Thomson Comics Strips
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BDSM
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Viz (comic)
''Viz'' is a British adult comic magazine founded in 1979 by Chris Donald. It parodies British comics of the post-war period, notably ''The Beano'' and ''The Dandy'', but with extensive profanity, toilet humour, black comedy, surreal humour and generally sexual or violent storylines. It also sends up tabloid newspapers, with mockeries of articles and letters pages. It features parody competitions and advertisements for overpriced 'limited edition' tat, as well as obsessions with half-forgotten kitsch celebrities from the 1960s to the 1980s, such as Shakin' Stevens and Rodney Bewes. Occasionally, it satirises current affairs and politicians, but it has no particular political standpoint. Its success in the early 1990s led to the appearance of numerous rivals copying the format ''Viz'' pioneered; none of them managed to attain its popularity. Circulation peaked at 1.2 million in the early 1990s, making it the third-most popular magazine in the UK, but ABC-audited sales h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Dandy Annual
''The Dandy Annual'' is the current name of the book that has been published every year since 1938, to tie in with the children's comic ''The Dandy''. there have been 78 editions. The Dandy Annual still continues to be published, even though the weekly comic ended in 2013. The annuals are traditionally published in July or August, in time for Christmas, and since 1965 they have had the date of the following year on the cover. Before then no date was given. From 1938 to 1951 the annual was called ''The Dandy Monster Comic''. The name changed to ''The Dandy Book'' in 1952 and continued, the year changing for each subsequent annual, until the release of the 2003 book in 2002 when it was renamed ''The Dandy Annual''. Despite the comic's relaunch as '' Dandy Xtreme'' in 2007, the annual was still known as ''The Dandy Annual''. This is likely because the annuals of the time were mostly made up of ''Dandy Comix'', due to the topical nature of the magazine's ''Xtreme'' content. In uni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nick Brennan
Nick Brennan is a British cartoonist who works mainly for D. C. Thomson & Co. Ltd. He started drawing for the company in 1993, drawing a revival of Peter Piper from ''The Dandy'', revived from The Magic Comic, but with a departure from Watkins' creation, with Peter instead sporting an Elvis-like hairdo and purple jumper. January 1994 saw his next work Blinky, a revamp of the nephew of Colonel Blink from ''The Beezer'' who had first appeared in the merged Beezer and Topper in 1990. In 1997, Nick drew a comic strip for a vote for ''The Beano'' which was called "Crazy for Daisy", and, along with Tim Traveller by Vic Neill Vic Neill (24 November 1941 - 24 December 1999) was a British cartoonist who drew for D.C. Thomson and I.P.C.'s comics. His first notable comic work was on Sparky strip Peter Piper. In 1969, he replaced Dudley Dexter Watkins on Topper cover s ..., won the vote, followed by another strip, Pinky's Crackpot Circus, in 2004, and in 2006, a revival of "Bras ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blinky (comic Strip Character)
''Blinky'' is a British comic strip, created by Nick Brennan, and published in the comic book ''The Beezer and Topper'' from 1990 until 1994 and in ''The Dandy'' until 2007. Concept Blinky is a young boy with large, thick glasses through whom he sees a galaxy very different from the rest of the world, which often leads to chaos. His trusty sidekick, Yellow Dog, always seems to get caught up in Blinky's adventures, and is very keen to get rid of him. When Blinky first appeared in 1990, the design of the character seemed to be a younger version of an earlier Beezer comic strip called '' Colonel Blink''. However, when ''The Beezer and Topper'' folded, and Nick Brennan began drawing the strip in January 1994, Blinky took on a new look that was now quite unlike Colonel Blink. The design was altered further over the next few years. Following the relaunch in late 2007, Nick Brennan, the artist, left ''The Dandy'', and so there were no Blinky strips being produced from then on. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
