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Leo Baxendale
Joseph Leo Baxendale (27 October 1930 – 23 April 2017) was an English cartoonist and publisher. Baxendale wrote and drew several titles. Among his best-known creations are the ''The Beano, Beano'' comic strip, strips ''Little Plum'', ''Minnie the Minx'', ''The Bash Street Kids'', and ''The Three Bears (comic strip), The Three Bears''. Career Baxendale was born in Whittle-le-Woods, Lancashire, and was educated at Preston Catholic College. After serving in the Royal Air Force, RAF, he took his first job as an artist for the local ''Lancashire Evening Post'' drawing adverts and cartoons. DC Thomson In 1952, he began freelance work for the children's comic publishers DC Thomson, creating several highly popular new strips for ''The Beano'' including ''Little Plum'', ''Minnie the Minx'' (started in 1953, taken over by Jim Petrie in 1961), ''The Three Bears (comic strip), The Three Bears'', and ''The Bash Street Kids'' (initially called ''When the Bell Rings''). Baxendale also co-o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Whittle-le-Woods
Whittle-le-Woods (commonly shortened to Whittle) is a village and civil parish of the Borough of Chorley in Lancashire, England. The population of the civil parish at the United Kingdom Census 2011, 2011 census was 5,434. Whittle-le-Woods lies on the A6 road (Great Britain), A6, about three miles north of the town of Chorley, and to the south of the city of City of Preston, Lancashire, Preston. It is divided into two areas, the older part on the old coach road running through Waterhouse Green to Brindle, Lancashire, Brindle and the more modern part on the A6 road where the church of St John is situated. In the north east is St Chad's RC Church and off the A6 is Shaw Hill Hotel, Golf and Country Club centred on the Shaw Hill Georgian mansion. It has experienced much residential development during the last twenty years. This has established the village as a popular commuter area, as it lies close to Preston and between the M6 motorway, M6 and M61 motorway, M61 motorways. Just o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spiked (magazine)
''Spiked'' (also written as ''sp!ked'') is a British Internet magazine focusing on politics, culture and society. The magazine was founded in 2001 with the same editor and many of the same contributors as ''Living Marxism'', which had closed in 2000 after losing a case for libel brought by ITN. There is general agreement that ''Spiked'' is libertarian, with the majority of specialist academic sources identifying it as right-libertarian, and some non-specialist sources identifying it as left-libertarian. Activists associated with ''Spiked'', sometimes described as part of "the ''Spiked'' network", took part in the Brexit Party as candidates or publicists, while disagreeing with Nigel Farage on many domestic issues. Editors and contributors ''Spiked'' is edited by Tom Slater, who was previously its deputy editor. He was appointed in September 2021, and replaced Brendan O'Neill, who had been editor following Mick Hume's departure in January 2007. On ceasing to be editor, O' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buster (comics)
''Buster'' was a British comic which began publication in 1960, originally published by IPC Magazines Ltd under the company's comics division Fleetway, then by Egmont UK Ltd under the same imprint until its closure in 2000. Despite missing issues due to industrial action during its run, the comic published 1,902 issues in total. The comic carried a mixture of humour and adventure strips, featuring the title character Buster and a host of other characters. Description The title character, whose strip usually appeared on the front cover, was Buster himself. He was originally billed as ''Buster: Son of Andy Capp''; Andy Capp is the lead character of the eponymous ''Daily Mirror'' newspaper strip, and Buster wore a similar flat cap to reinforce the connection. In early issues, Buster often referred to his father, and Andy was seen in the comic (attempting to find a gas leak in three frames of the 18 June 1960 issue; shown in two drawn photographs in the 2 July issue that same ye ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fleetway Publications
Fleetway Publications was a magazine publishing company based in London. It was founded in 1959 when the Mirror Group acquired the Amalgamated Press, then based at Fleetway House, Farringdon Street, London. It was one of the companies that merged into the IPC group in 1963, and the Fleetway banner continued to be used until 1968 when all IPC's publications were reorganised into the unitary IPC Magazines. In 1987 IPC's comics line was sold to Robert Maxwell as Fleetway Publications. Egmont UK bought Fleetway from Maxwell in 1991, merging it with their own comics publishing operation, London Editions, to form Fleetway Editions, but the name "Fleetway" ceased to appear on their comics some time after 2002. In August 2016, Rebellion Developments acquired the Fleetway library from Egmont, making it the owner of all comics characters and titles created by IPC's subsidiaries after January 1, 1970, together with 26 specified characters which appeared in '' Buster'' and ''Roy of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valiant (comics)
''Valiant'' was a British boys' adventure comics anthology which ran from 1962 to 1976. It was published by IPC Magazines and was one of that company's major adventure titles throughout the 1960s and early 1970s. Publication history The title went through a number of name changes and mergers, although always returning to its simpler one-word name. On 23 February 1963, it merged with ''Knockout'' to become ''Valiant and Knockout''. With the issue from February 1964, the title dropped "Knockout" and reverted to simply ''Valiant''. In June of 1963, Fleetway (IPC) brought out the first two (per month) issues of the digest-sized spinoff ''Valiant Picture Library'' which featured stories that had nothing to do with the main title. ''Valiant Picture Library'' cost one shilling. It ultimately ran 144 monthly issues from 1963 to 1969. With issue #137 (15 May 1965), the title went from 28 to 40 pages for one penny more (to seven pence). ''Valiant'' merged with '' Smash!'' in April 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wham! (comics)
''Wham!'' was a weekly British comics magazine published by Odhams Press. It ran for 187 issues from 20 June 1964 to 13 January 1968, when it merged into its sister title '' Pow!'' Created by veteran cartoonist Leo Baxendale, ''Wham!'' was structured like a typical British comic in the mould of ''The Beano'', but it was distinguished by "a racy and anarchic new breed" of humour that inspired later British strips. The initial success of ''Wham!'' prompted the creation of sister titles '' Smash!'' and '' Pow!'' with similar intent; these, in turn, led to the formation of Odhams' Power Comics line, featuring reprints of American Marvel Comics superhero stories. ''Wham!'' included short instalments of ''The Fantastic Four''. Overview Odhams' line of "juveniles" (i.e., comics) were managed by Alf Wallace, who had been brought over from Fleetway Publications (formerly Amalgamated Press), both parts of the same Mirror Group. Odhams competed for readers with DC Thomson, publisher ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pow! (comics)
''Pow!'' was a weekly British comic book published by Odhams Press' Power Comics imprint in 1967 and 1968. Like other Power Comics, ''Pow!'' featured a mixture of British strips with reprints from American Marvel Comics, including Spider-Man, Nick Fury, Agent of SHIELD and the Fantastic Four. It is unrelated to ''POW! Entertainment'', an American media production company. Publication history The Power Comics imprint was led by a three-man editorial team, known as Alf, Bart, and Cos. Alfred Wallace ("Alf") was the Managing Editor at Odhams, and supervised the entire Power Comics line. Under his direction, Bart and Cos were the staff editors who handled the individual titles. Bart (a pen-name for ''Eagle'''s Bob Bartholemew) was the editor directly responsible for ''Pow!''. ''Pow!'' first appeared on 21 January 1967. It was printed on newsprint stock, in black-and-white except for its colour front and back covers, and initially comprised 28 pages. After 12 months, with it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Man From U
''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things already mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with pronouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of pronoun ''thee'') when followed by a v ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Smash! (comic)
''Smash!'' was a weekly British comic book, published initially by Odhams Press and subsequently by IPC Magazines, from 5 February 1966 to 3 April 1971. After 257 issues it merged into '' Valiant''. During 1967 and 1968 ''Smash!'' was part of Odhams' Power Comics line, notable for its publication of American superhero strips. During this period, alongside British humour strips, ''Smash!'' included black-and-white superhero reprints originally published in the US by Marvel Comics and DC Comics. In late 1968, ''Smash!'' absorbed its sister titles ''Pow! (comics), Pow!'' and ''Fantastic (comics), Fantastic'', thereby becoming the last surviving Power Comics title. In March 1969 ''Smash!'' underwent a major relaunch, and thereafter featured solely British content: a mixture of humour, sporting and adventure strips. A further relaunch in 1970 was almost as extensive, with a number of new strips introduced and an equal number cancelled. ''Smash!'' was sized 9.75" x 12" (#1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wham! (comic)
''Wham!'' was a weekly British comics magazine published by Odhams Press. It ran for 187 issues from 20 June 1964 to 13 January 1968, when it merged into its sister title '' Pow!'' Created by veteran cartoonist Leo Baxendale, ''Wham!'' was structured like a typical British comic in the mould of ''The Beano'', but it was distinguished by "a racy and anarchic new breed" of humour that inspired later British strips. The initial success of ''Wham!'' prompted the creation of sister titles '' Smash!'' and '' Pow!'' with similar intent; these, in turn, led to the formation of Odhams' Power Comics line, featuring reprints of American Marvel Comics superhero stories. ''Wham!'' included short instalments of ''The Fantastic Four''. Overview Odhams' line of "juveniles" (i.e., comics) were managed by Alf Wallace, who had been brought over from Fleetway Publications (formerly Amalgamated Press), both parts of the same Mirror Group. Odhams competed for readers with DC Thomson, publisher of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Odhams Press
Odhams Press was a British publishing company, operating from 1920 to 1968. Originally a magazine publisher, Odhams later expanded into book publishing and then children's comics. The company was acquired by Fleetway Publications in 1961 and then IPC Magazines in 1963. In its final incarnation, Odhams was known for its Power Comics line of titles, notable for publishing reprints of American Marvel Comics superheroes. History William Odhams; Odhams Bros. In 1834 William Odhams left Sherborne, Dorset, for London, where he initially worked for ''The Morning Post''. In 1847, he went into partnership with William Biggar in Beaufort Buildings, Savoy, London; and in the 1870s he started the business known as William Odhams. Originally a jobbing printer and newspaper publisher, William Odhams sold the business to his two sons, John Lynch Odhams and William James Baird Odhams, in 1892. The business, then a small printing firm in Hart Street employing about twenty people, became known a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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