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Funtastic Journey
Funtastic Journey was a comic strip that started in Jackpot from the first issue dated 5 May 1979 "Jackpot issue 1, 5 May 1979". Printed and distributed by IPC magazines. The artist throughout the comic strip was Ian Knox. On their planet everyone lives in shoes and boots. A parody of ' The Old Lady Who Lived In a Shoe'. People even ate soles of shoes for food (boiled boot, fried boot, stewed boot or curried boot, with only slippers for a change). Instead of TV they had bootivision, but only in Black and Brown. Gavin & Terry are tired of this boredom and the terrible taste of boots. They visit and later join Professor Shoe, who has built a special helicopter-boot 'Welly Copter' to travel to distant lands and adventures. On their first trip, in issue 1, they visit a land where everyone lives in socks and even eats socks. On a later trip, to a land where they find everything is floating, even the food. On another journey they find all the houses and buildings are made of food - bu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jackpot (Fleetway Comics)
''Jackpot'' was a British comic book magazine that ran from the issues cover dated 5 May 1979 to issue 141, 30 January 1982, when it merged with ''Buster''. Publishing history The first issue cost 10p. The price increased to 12p from issue 63 (1980) and 14p from issue 98 in 1981 Free Gifts Early issues included a cover-mounted free gift the first issue included a "practical joke", for example a joke chocolate biscuit. Issue 2 featured a Squirt Ring. Issue 3 bore a Magic Numbers card game and ''Why Be Bored?'' book covers. The inner pages of the latter continued for several issue after. Annuals Annuals were printed from 1980 to 1986 - as was often the case with British titles, these hardback books outlasted the weekly comic by some time. They mixed original and reprinted material, with much of the new material being drawn by different artists than the weekly strips due to the lower page rate paid to artists. Summer Specials Summer Specials were printed from 1980 to 1982, aga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ian Knox
Ian Knox (born 4 May 1943, Belfast, Northern Ireland) is a political cartoonist for the ''Irish News'', and also drew cartoons for the BBC Northern Ireland political show ''Hearts and Minds (BBC), Hearts and Minds''. Knox trained as an architect at Edinburgh College of Art (1963–67) and Heriot-Watt University (1967-68), and worked as an architect before establishing himself as a cartoonist. He worked in animation from 1970 to 1975 for Halas & Batchelor in London, Potterton Productions in Montreal, and Kotopoulis Productions in Toronto. He then joined ''Red Weekly and Socialist Challenge'' as a political cartoonist, as well as contributing to various children's comics for IPC Media, IPC from 1975 to 1988. He signed much of his political work "Blotski", and he and ''Republican News'' cartoonist Cormac (cartoonist), Cormac worked together as "Kormski", drawing the anti-clerical strip "Dog Collars" for ''Fortnight Magazine''. Since 1989 he has been the editorial cartoonist for '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
There Was An Old Woman Who Lived In A Shoe
"There was an Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe" is a popular English language nursery rhyme, with a Roud Folk Song Index number of 19132. Debates over its meaning and origin have largely centered on attempts to match the old woman with historical female figures who have had large families, although King George II (1683–1760) has also been proposed as the rhyme's subject. Lyrics The most common version of the rhyme is: The earliest printed version in Joseph Ritson's ''Gammer Gurton's Garland'' in 1794 has the coarser last line: Many other variations were printed in the 18th and 19th centuries. Marjorie Ainsworth Decker published a Christian version of the rhyme in her ''The Christian Mother Goose Book'' published in 1978: Origins and meaning Iona and Peter Opie pointed to the version published in ''Infant Institutes'' in 1797, which finished with the lines: The term "a-loffeing", they believe, was Shakespearean, suggesting that the rhyme is considerably older than the fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
