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Jim Holdaway
Jim Holdaway (1927–1970) was a British illustrator, who contributed art for numerous comic strips. His best known work was on the ''Modesty Blaise'' comics written by Peter O'Donnell. Art career Jim Holdaway was born in 1927 in Barnes Common, London. On completing schooling in New Malden, Surrey, Holdaway attended the Kingston School of Art. After spending two years of National Service from 1945 with the East Surrey Regiment, Holdaway went to Italy, Austria and Greece before returning to art school on an ex-Serviceman's grant. Jim Holdaway eventually left to work in France where he secured numerous advertising opportunities. Returning to England soon to take care of his widowed mother, Holdaway went to work for Scion Books in Kensington, doing a variety of artwork, book jackets, comic books and advertising. He then became freelance, working from home. He was drawing for Odhams and Farringdon Press doing 64-page comics including: Captain Vigour, The Football Comic, Ste ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
London
London is the capital and largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a major settlement for two millennia. The City of London, its ancient core and financial centre, was founded by the Romans as '' Londinium'' and retains its medieval boundaries.See also: Independent city § National capitals The City of Westminster, to the west of the City of London, has for centuries hosted the national government and parliament. Since the 19th century, the name "London" has also referred to the metropolis around this core, historically split between the counties of Middlesex, Essex, Surrey, Kent, and Hertfordshire, which largely comprises Greater London, governed by the Greater London Authority.The Greater London Authority consists of the Mayor of London and the London Assembly. The London Mayor is distinguished fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tit-Bits
''Tit-Bits from all the interesting Books and Newspapers of the World'', more commonly known as ''Tit-Bits'', was a British weekly magazine founded by George Newnes, a founding figure in popular journalism, on 22 October 1881. History In 1886, the magazine's headquarters moved from Manchester to London where it paved the way for popular journalism – most significantly, the ''Daily Mail'' was founded by Alfred Harmsworth, a contributor to ''Tit-Bits'', and the ''Daily Express'' was launched by Arthur Pearson, who worked at ''Tit-Bits'' for five years after winning a competition to get a job on the magazine. (republished 2008) Their first offices were at 12 Burleigh Street, off the Strand. From the outset, the magazine was a mass-circulation commercial publication on cheap newsprint which soon reached sales of between 400,000 and 600,000. By the turn of the century, it became the first periodical in Britain to sell over one million copies per issue. Like a mini-encyclopedia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1927 Births
Nineteen or 19 may refer to: * 19 (number), the natural number following 18 and preceding 20 * one of the years 19 BC, AD 19, 1919, 2019 Films * ''19'' (film), a 2001 Japanese film * ''Nineteen'' (film), a 1987 science fiction film Music * 19 (band), a Japanese pop music duo Albums * ''19'' (Adele album), 2008 * ''19'', a 2003 album by Alsou * ''19'', a 2006 album by Evan Yo * ''19'', a 2018 album by MHD * ''19'', one half of the double album ''63/19'' by Kool A.D. * ''Number Nineteen'', a 1971 album by American jazz pianist Mal Waldron * ''XIX'' (EP), a 2019 EP by 1the9 Songs * "19" (song), a 1985 song by British musician Paul Hardcastle. * "Nineteen", a song by Bad4Good from the 1992 album '' Refugee'' * "Nineteen", a song by Karma to Burn from the 2001 album ''Almost Heathen''. * "Nineteen" (song), a 2007 song by American singer Billy Ray Cyrus. * "Nineteen", a song by Tegan and Sara from the 2007 album '' The Con''. * "XIX" (song), a 2014 song by Slipk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cobra Trap
''Cobra Trap'' is the title of a short story collection by Peter O'Donnell featuring his action/adventure heroine Modesty Blaise. The book was published in 1996, and is the thirteenth, and final book in the ''Modesty Blaise'' series which began in 1965. ''Cobra Trap'' was released 11 years after the previous book in the series, '' Dead Man's Handle''. It was the final book to be written by O'Donnell before his death in 2010. Contents The stories featured in the collection are "Bellman", "The Dark Angels", "Old Alex", "The Girl With the Black Balloon" and "Cobra Trap". "Bellman" is an adaptation of the 1968 comic strip serial "The Killing Ground".O'Donnell, Peter, Introduction to "The Killing Ground" in ''Modesty Blaise: The Black Pearl'' (Titan Books, December 2004), np All five stories take place at different times in the life of Modesty Blaise. The first, "Bellman", begins with a flashback to when Modesty is 20 years old. In "The Dark Angels" Modesty is in her late 20s, in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Titan Books
Titan Publishing Group is the publishing division of Titan Entertainment Group, which was established in 1981. The books division has two main areas of publishing: film and television tie-ins and cinema reference books; and graphic novels and comics references and art titles. Its imprints are Titan Books, Titan Comics and Titan Magazines. As of 2016, Titan Books' editorial director is Laura Price. Titan Books Titan Books is a publisher of film, video game and TV tie-in books. As of 2011, the company publishes on average 30 to 40 such titles per year, across a range of formats from "making of" books to screenplays to TV companions and novels, and has a backlist reprint program. Titan Books' first title was a trade paperback collection of Brian Bolland's Judge Dredd stories from '' 2000 AD''. Titan Books followed the first title with numerous other ''2000 AD'' reprints. Subsequently, the publishing company expanded operations, putting out its first original title in 1987 (Pat M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Enrique Badia Romero
Enrique () is the Spanish variant of the given name Heinrich of Germanic origin. Equivalents in other languages are Henry (English), Enric (Catalan), Enrico (Italian), Henrik (Swedish, Danish, and Norwegian), Heinrich (German), Hendrik, Henk (Dutch), Henri (French), and Henrique (Portuguese). Common nicknames of Enrique are Kiki, Kiko, Kike, Rick, Ricky, and Quique. Enrique is also a surname. A variant surname is '' Enriquez'' (son of Enrique). Notable people with the name include: Given name * Enrique of Malacca (fl. 1511–1521), Malay slave who may have been the first person to travel around the world * Enrique Aguirre (born 1979), Argentine athlete * Enrique Álvarez Félix (1934–1996), Mexican actor * Enrique Bolaños (1928–2021), President of Nicaragua from 2002 to 2007 * Enrique Bunbury (born 1967), Spanish singer and band member of Heroes Del Silencio * Enrique Campos (born 1961), Venezuelan road bicycle racer * Enrique Castillo (born 1949), American actor * Enri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Holdaway
Holdaway is a surname. Notable people with the name include: * Guy Holdaway (1886–1973), British athlete * Hubert Holdaway (1896–1963), New Zealand teacher, orchardist, Methodist lay preacher and pacifist *Jim Holdaway Jim Holdaway (1927–1970) was a British illustrator, who contributed art for numerous comic strips. His best known work was on the ''Modesty Blaise'' comics written by Peter O'Donnell. Art career Jim Holdaway was born in 1927 in Barnes Co ... (1927–1970), British illustrator * Richard Holdaway (born 1949), British space engineer * Ronald M. Holdaway (born 1934), American military judge * William Holdaway (1893–1967), New Zealand cricketer {{surname, Holdaway ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Romeo Brown
''Romeo Brown'' was a British comic strip published in the ''Daily Mirror'' from 1954 to 1962. It was originally written and illustrated by Alfred Mazure; Mazure was replaced in 1957 by writer Peter O'Donnell and illustrator Jim Holdaway. It featured the adventures of Romeo Brown, a dashing private detective and reluctant ladies' man. The strip was cancelled unexpectedly by the chairman of the group who, according to O'Donnell, said he couldn't understand it. O'Donnell had by this time completed the next adventure and Holdaway had illustrated the first 8 days' worth. O'Donnell recalled in a 2002 interview: "This was a strip running in the tabloid Daily Mirror, for which I was writing "Garth". The editor was dissatisfied so he engaged Jim Holdaway to take over the drawing and asked me to write the scripts. That's how Jim and I first met, and we ran the strip for seven years, Romeo Brown was a comic private detective, and my brief was that every story was to revolve around a girl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfred Mazure
Alfred Leonardus Mazure (8 September 1914 – 16 February 1974) was a Dutch comics artist, novelist and film director, best known for his detective comic '' Dick Bos'', which was one of the most popular comics series in the Netherlands during the 1940s. He also published English-language comics for several British newspapers, including his second-best-known work ''Romeo Brown''. Biography Alfred Mazure was born in Nijmegen in 1914. His first comic strips, ''De Chef'' (1934–1935), ''Da's juist iets voor Willy'' (1935), ''Jerry gaat speculeeren'' (1937) and ''De Havik in Londen'' (1937) were published in the newspapers ''De Utrechtsche Courant'', the ''Limburger Koerier'' and the ''Dagblad van Noordbrabant (en Zeeland)''. In 1939 he also published his first comics in Great Britain, namely ''Erbert'' (1937–1938) in the weekly ''Passing Show'' and ''Dad'' in ''John Bull''. In 1940 he created his famous detective comic '' Dick Bos'', which he signed with ''Maz''. They starred a bra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swift (comic)
''Swift'' was a British weekly comics magazine published by in the UK as a junior companion to the ''Eagle''. Publication history It was founded by the Rev. Marcus Morris and launched by Hulton Press in 1954. After Hultons were sold to Odhams Press in 1959, ''Swift'' absorbed Odhams' weekly title ''Zip'' and inherited a number of its strips. ''Swift'' was merged into the ''Eagle'' in 1963. Comics published in ''Swift'' *'' Arty and Crafty'' by Geoffrey Bond and Martin Aitchison *'' Calling U for Useless'' by Reg Parlett *'' The Fleet Family'', drawn by Frank Bellamy, 1954 *''The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe'', classic novel adaptation drawn by Richard Jennings *'' Ginger and Co'', drawn by Neville Colvin, 1960-62 *'' King Arthur and His Knights'', by Clifford Makins and Frank Bellamy, 1955-56 *'' Lochinvar’s Ride'', illustrated by D. C. Eyles *'' Nigel Tawney, Explorer'', drawn by Harry Winslade (as Redvers Blake) *'' Paul English'', drawn by Frank Bellamy, Giorg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Junior Express
''Express Weekly'' was a British children's comic magazine, published between 1954 and 1962 under a progression of titles: ''Junior Express'', ''Junior Express Weekly'', ''Express Weekly'', and ''TV Express Weekly''. The publication was similar in format to the popular children's comic ''Eagle (British comics), Eagle'': tabloid with photogravure colour, with a mixture of comic strips and features. Publication history Published by Beaverbrook Newspapers, whose flagship title was the ''Daily Express'', the publication started out in 1954 as ''Junior Express''. It was renamed ''Junior Express Weekly'' in 1955 and then ''Express Weekly'' in 1956. In 1960, the title was acquired by City Magazines and renamed ''TV Express Weekly''. It was acquired by Polystyle Publications in 1962 (after issue #375)"British Comics ... [...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] |
