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Comics Art And Writing Of Denis Gifford
Denis Gifford was a prolific comic artist and writer, most active in the 1940s, 50s and 60s. Gifford's work was largely for humour strips in British comics, often for L. Miller & Son. He was a highly influential comics historian, particularly of British comics from the 19th century to the 1940s. Gifford was also a committed comic collector of British and US comics, and owned what has been called the "world's largest collection of British comics." Comics art and scriptwriting: Marvelman titles Gifford wrote, drew and often created a wide selection of back-up strips that featured in a number of the ''Marvelman'' titles, usually one-page humour strips, as well as the ''Marvelman Family'' strip in its own title. Gifford used a variety of pen-names for the work, including Belteshazzar Oakworm, Clubtwee Gleeb and 'Fred Granule Bepp'., Joe King, Jack Upp and Belle Tupp. These humour strips may have been reprinted across a number of titles in the L. Miller & Son stable. * ''Young J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Streamline (comics)
Streamline is a British Golden Age superhero, which appeared in the short-lived magazine ''Streamline Comics'' (1947), which only ran for four issues. The character was co-created by Denis Gifford and Bob Monkhouse, and later appeared as a character in the '' 2000 AD'' strip ''Zenith'' and the independent title ''Black Tower Comics Group Adventures''. Publication history Streamline was co-created by Denis Gifford and Bob Monkhouse, first appearing in ''Streamline Comics'' #1 (1947) published by Cardal Publishing. The comic ran for four issues, black and white throughout inside, with Streamline the main feature. The ''Streamline'' strip was drawn in #1 by Denis Gifford, and in #2-4 by science-fiction writer Bryan Berry. In Streamline's debut appearance, ''The Adventure of the Flaming Fiends'', scientist Keenan King is suspicious when he witnesses a fire at the 21st National Bank, returning to his laboratory to experiment on himself with the mysterious Elixir X. Obtaining a suita ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maurice Horn
Maurice Horn (born 1931) is a French-American comics historian, author, and editor, considered to be one of the first serious academics to study comics. He is the editor of ''The World Encyclopedia of Comics'', ''The World Encyclopedia of Cartoons'', and ''100 Years of American Newspaper Comics''. Born in France, he is based in New York City. Career Horn grew up in France particularly fascinated by American comics. In the late 1950s, collaborating with countryman (later the editorial director of the French publisher Dargaud) under the joint pen names Karl von Kraft and Franck Sauvage (after Doc Savage), Horn co-wrote a number of French-language pulp mystery and spy novels. From 1956 to 1960, Horn and Moliterni (as Franck Sauvage) wrote the radio mystery show ''Allô... Police!'' for Radio Luxemburg. Looking for more lucrative writing work, Horn emigrated to the United States in 1959. Returning frequently to France, he was a member of the 1960s groups Club Bande Dessinée and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ally Sloper Award
The Ally Sloper Awards was an annual awards ceremony recognising veteran British comic creators, initiated by the comics historian Denis Gifford in 1976. From 1978, they were awarded under the auspices of the Association of Comic Enthusiasts, also founded by Gifford. The awards were named after Ally Sloper, the nineteenth-century British comic character championed by Gifford as the world's first comic character. Gifford also launched and edited an ''Ally Sloper'' 'comic magazine' in 1976 (published by Alan Class Comics). The award itself was a figurine of Ally Sloper, based on brass doorstops that were produced as merchandising in the nineteenth century. Prize-giving of the first Ally Sloper Awards for comics creators took place at Gifford's Comics 101 comics convention, held March 19–21, 1976, at the Mount Royal Hotel, London, with TV comedian Bob Monkhouse presenting. Predecessors In the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, joke awards, known as the Sloper Award of M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The British Film Catalogue
''The British Film Catalogue'' is a reference book compiled by Denis Gifford (1927–2000) listing every film made in Britain, including feature films, shorts, information films and student films. For each of more than 14,000 consecutively numbered chronological title entries, information listed includes major credits (director, producer, writer, original author), production company, distributor, actors and actresses, role names, running time, censors’ certificate, genre and a brief plot. It has an alphabetical index cross-referencing each title to its chronological number. There existed no central register or other complete archive of films made in the UK, and Gifford sought to address this with the Catalogue. The 2000 edition of the work, written by Gifford but published shortly after his death, was a two-volume reference work, separating fiction (1895-1994) and non-fiction (1888-1994). The 1973 and 1986 editions were published as single volumes. In order to compile the firs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Publications By Denis Gifford On Radio, Television, Music And Music Hall
''In addition to published work, this article also includes Denis Gifford's radio and television credits.'' Books on radio, television, music and music hall * ''Run Adolf Run: The World War Two Fun Book'' (1975), Corgi. . * ''Stewpot's Fun Book (Look-in books)'' (1977), Arrow. . * ''The Morecambe & Wise Comic Book'' (1977), Corgi / Carousel. . * ''Quick on the Draw'' (1978), Arrow /ITV paperback. (with Chas Sinclair.) . * ''Eric and Ernie's TV Fun Book'' (1978), Arrow / ITV paperback. . * ''The Golden Age of Radio: An Illustrated Companion'' (1985), B.T. Batsford. . * ''Bless 'Em All!: World War Two Song Book'' (1989), Webb & Bower. . * ''The British Television Catalogue, 1923-39: A Chronological Programme Listing and Index'' (1999), Flicks Books. . Articles on radio, music and music hall * ''For Whom the Gong Bong-g-gs''; in ''Rex'' issue #25, (September 1971) - article on vintage radio for British magazine. * ''Fifty Years of Radio Comedy''; in ''New English Library Flashback M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Published Work On Cinema By Denis Gifford
''In addition to published work on cinema, this article also includes Denis Gifford's film credits.'' Denis Gifford provided one of the earliest researched archives of early cinema, with The British Film Catalogue, ''The British Film Catalogue, 1895–1970'', and produced numerous authoritative works on previously uncatalogued films from the UK and the US. Gifford had a particular interest in early horror and science fiction, and early comedy including Laurel and Hardy. Books on cinema Gifford's work on cinema included both original research on cinema, such as ''The British Film Catalogue, 1895–1970'' and ''British Animated Films, 1895–1985: a Filmography'', which has considerable academic credibility, and more popular, heavily illustrated books, often on genre films, such as ''Movie Monsters''. * ''Space Patrol Official Handbook'' (1952); self-published. * ''British Cinema: an Illustrated Guide to the Leading Players and Directors'' (1968); Zwemmer. * ''Movie Monsters'' ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fred Rhoads
Fred Rhoads (October 17, 1921 – February 26, 2000) was an American cartoonist best known for his contributions to George Baker's ''Sad Sack''. Born in Shamokin, Pennsylvania, Rhoads studied illustration in New York from 1940 to 1942, at which time he joined the U.S. Marine Corps to serve during World War II. He drew the ''Gismo and Eight Ball'' cartoon series in the Marine's ''Leatherneck Magazine''. He also assisted several cartoonists, including Mort Walker (''Beetle Bailey''), Jimmy Hatlo (''They'll Do It Every Time'') and Fred Lasswell (''Barney Google and Snuffy Smith''). In 1954, Harvey Comics and Baker brought in Paul McCarthy to draw the ''Sad Sack'' titles, followed by Rhoads, Jack O'Brien and Joe Dennett. Others who periodically drew for the titles included Warren Kremer and Ken Selig. Baker retained editorial control and continued to illustrate the covers of ''Sad Sack'' comics until his death in 1975. During the three decades Rhoads drew ''Sad Sack'', he also did s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elliot Caplin
Elliot Caplin (December 25, 1913 - February 20, 2000) was a comic strip writer best known as the co-creator (with Stan Drake) of ''The Heart of Juliet Jones''. His name is sometimes spelled with one extra letter: Elliott A. Caplin. He was the younger brother of Al Capp, creator of ''Li'l Abner''. Biography Born in New Haven, Connecticut, Caplin graduated from Ohio State University in 1936. Beginning in 1937, he was employed as a writer for King Features Syndicate. He entered the comic book field as editor of ''True Comics'' for the Parents Magazine, Parents Magazine Institute. By 1940, he was an editorial director with the magazine ''Parents (magazine), Parents'', leaving during World War II to serve with the Navy in the South Pacific. In the post-World War II years, he returned to ''Parents'', continuing as an editor there until 1948. Caplin co-created the strips ''Dr. Bobbs'', ''Peter Scratch'', and ''Big Ben Bolt'', and served as writer for strips by others, including ''Abbie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gil Kane
Gil Kane (; born Eli Katz ; April 6, 1926 – January 31, 2000) was a Latvian-born American comics artist whose career spanned the 1940s to the 1990s and virtually every major comics company and character. Kane co-created the modern-day versions of the superheroes Green Lantern and the Atom for DC Comics, and co-created Iron Fist and Adam Warlock with Roy Thomas for Marvel Comics. He was involved in the anti-drug storyline in ''The Amazing Spider-Man'' #96–98, which, at the behest of the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, bucked the then-prevalent Comics Code Authority to depict drug abuse, and ultimately spurred an update of the Code. Kane additionally pioneered an early graphic novel prototype, '' His Name Is... Savage'', in 1968, and a seminal graphic novel, ''Blackmark'', in 1971. In 1997, he was inducted into both the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame and the Harvey Award Jack Kirby Hall of Fame. Biography Early life and career Gil Kane was born ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don Martin (cartoonist)
Don Martin (May 18, 1931 – January 6, 2000) was an American cartoonist whose best-known work was published in '' Mad'' from 1956 to 1988.''Don Martin Obituary'' NY Times, Jan 8 2000''Don Martin Obituary'' Salon.com, Jan 15 2000 His popularity and prominence were such that the magazine promoted Martin as "Mad's Maddest Artist." Early years Born on May 18, 1931, in , and raised in nearby Brookside and[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reg Parlett
Reginald Edward Parlett (2 August 1904 – 18 November 1991) was an artist from England who had a career of drawing for comic books that lasted for 66 years. Born in London, his father Harry Parlett (1881–1971) was also a prolific artist whose work appeared in many publications, often anonymously, as well as on many picture postcards, which he signed as 'Comicus'. Reg Parlett's older brother George (1902–1981) also later became an artist. On leaving school Parlett became a clerk at Thomas Cook.Clark, Alan ''The Comic Art of Reg. Parlett'' Golden Fun Publishing (1986) pg 3 Realising that he was ill-suited to working for a travel agent, he was encouraged to draw by his father, who submitted his son's cartoons to Amalgamated Press (AP); such was his success that he left Thomas Cook and in 1923 became a permanent member of staff for AP. His work appeared in the '' Merry and Bright'' comic in 1926, and he would later go on to do comic strips for comics such as '' Funny Wonder'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Webster (cartoonist)
Gilbert Thomas Webster (1886–1962) was an English cartoonist and caricaturist. Born in Church Street, Bilston, Staffordshire (now West Midlands), the son of Daniel Webster, ironmonger, and his wife Sarah Ann (née Bostock) a tobacconist, however, his father died before Tom was five years old He was educated at the Royal Wolverhampton School, and at the age of fourteen got his first job as a railway booking-clerk. He taught himself to draw, and in 1904 he won a newspaper cartoon contest. This began his career in cartooning. He started out at the ''Sports Argus'' in Birmingham, moving to London in 1912 to become the political cartoonist for the short-lived Labour Party mouthpiece, '' the Daily Citizen''. An ironic placement given his later Conservative standing. In November 1915 Webster volunteered for the army, giving his occupation as "Bank clerk". He was sent to France in May 1916 as a Lance Corporal and saw action in the Battle of the Somme. He was wounded in the neck at St. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
