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Hello Brendan I'm not normally one for arguing on the internet and initially only posted on this thread in order to answer a couple of questions that had been posed. To this I added the opinion that Cummings was good at drawing. Since then you’ve suggested that his approach to political cartooning...

Brendan, that sort of characterization of a public figure is standard practice in the age-old business of political caricature and no different from those found in the work of Gilray, Scarfe, Steve Bell or Fluck and Law. Cummings certainly did worse than crossing a subject's eyes but my original poi...

Brendan McGuire wrote:I hated Cummings with a passion. Every drawing of his exudes a nib-full of bile.

Hardly.

I must say it's curious that someone who is adverse to bile is so keen to express hatred with passion.

Cheerz!

Matthew.

Cummings could be controversial in his cartoons but whether you agreed with his views or not he produced great looking work. Very distinctive style, lovely line work and he was a very good caricaturist. I was at the Cartoon Museum in London last week and they have quite a bit of his work in their cu...

Calvin and Hobbes is a US strip and is syndicated to papers all over the world. Gambols was drawn specifically for the Express I believe.

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The long running strip The Gambols by Barry Appleby was in The Express. The Express also ran Calvin and Hobbes from the eighties onwards.

They also had a couple of fantastic cartoonists in Giles and Cummings although they provided single panel cartoons rather than strips of course.

The comics I used to get regularly in South Wales in the seventies and eighties were always in the shops a couple of days before the day stated on the cover. Always wondered why.

Readers of Nutty and The Dandy will be saddened to learn that another beloved figure in British comics has shuffled off this mortal coil.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzwNPuRDm8Q

Maybe all this releasing of archives will become common when things like the Sony Reader catch on fully. The Japanese have been carrying similar technology around to read comics for years.

Thanks, ISPYSHHHGUY for your info on this strip and the book in general. I think I was attracted by the surreal and nicely painted Bash Street meets The Iron Fish cover when I got it from Ebay. I can view the content of the book from a more informed point of view now.

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He's an after dinner thpeaker now and appeared in Harry Potter:
http://www.xsp.co.uk/profile.php?artist=Freddiedavies

Parrot face.

ISPYSHHHGUY, I bought the '69 book last year so it's interesting to hear a comics buff say it's a particular fave. I'm no expert on British comics, just someone who's renewed his interest in recent years and is enjoying 60s to 80s stuff in particular. Why is this book a particular stand-out for you?...

It's more of an approach that you'd see in animation with different artists contributing elements to make the final piece. I think it's a successful collaboration partly because the two artists' styles are compatible. They both drew very solidly for instance which helps the characters from both arti...

Thanks, ISPYSHHHGUY. Interesting. I should have said "the average reader wouldn't have known it was a collaboration". Eagle-eyed connoisseurs are another matter!