The Guardian Guide

Brendan McGuire · Post by **Brendan McGuire** » 08 Sep 2007, 13:51

Bryan Talbot has drawn a three page history of British comics in today's Guardian.

PaulTwist · Post by **PaulTwist** » 08 Sep 2007, 15:39

Brendan McGuire wrote:Bryan Talbot has drawn a three page history of British comics in today's Guardian.

I was just about to post about this! It really is lovely, in a similar style to parts of Alice in Sunderland.

Charlie Brooker (ex-Oink!, of course) gives Comics Britannia a glowing review in his Screen Burn column, too.

philcom55 · Post by **philcom55** » 08 Sep 2007, 19:32

It's also good to see him setting the record straight on the use of speech balloons in early satirical broadsheets! (though personally I'm inclined to date them even further back to certain medieval paintings in which words were written on stylised scrolls emanating from the mouths of Saints and Sinners)

- Phil Rushton

stevezodiac · Post by **stevezodiac** » 10 Sep 2007, 20:23

If you'd bought the Times on Saturday you would have seen their Knowledge listings magazines had a cover in the style of the Beano (the word Knowledge was written in the style of the Beano masthead and the cover featured Dennis and Rasher. Very well done and i will keep it for posterity. Sometimes it pays not to be a leftie.

finisterre · Post by **finisterre** » 11 Sep 2007, 01:50

If it's permitted, I'll scan and post the stuff from The Guide?

Can anyone scan the cover of The Knowledge from the Times?

Thanks.

colcool007 · Post by **colcool007** » 11 Sep 2007, 04:33

Got a copy of Saturday's Guardian and I can't find nuffink! (Bought on Monday due to being on a warm and windswept isle...) Help!

finisterre · Post by **finisterre** » 11 Sep 2007, 05:06

colcool007 wrote:Got a copy of Saturday's Guardian and I can't find nuffink! (Bought on Monday due to being on a warm and windswept isle...) Help!

It's in the paperback book sized weekly entertainment section. You can't miss it it's on the cover of said Guide.

colcool007 · Post by **colcool007** » 11 Sep 2007, 16:54

Meep! Of all the bits of The Guardian, that's the one piece that's missing! Grrr!

Lew Stringer · Post by **Lew Stringer** » 11 Sep 2007, 18:20

colcool007 wrote:Meep! Of all the bits of The Guardian, that's the one piece that's missing! Grrr!

Fear not. Comics gossip columnist Rich Johnston has scanned in the whole strip here:

http://www.comicbookresources.com/colum ... ?column=13

...as well as nicking one of the images from my blog (of the first page of the strip), but we'll let him off.

Lew

colcool007 · Post by **colcool007** » 11 Sep 2007, 19:28

Lew Stringer wrote:
colcool007 wrote:Meep! Of all the bits of The Guardian, that's the one piece that's missing! Grrr!
Fear not. Comics gossip columnist Rich Johnston has scanned in the whole strip here:

http://www.comicbookresources.com/colum ... ?column=13

...as well as nicking one of the images from my blog (of the first page of the strip), but we'll let him off.

Lew

Lew, I could kiss you...er..maybe not! I note that the guide actually came out on Friday so that the hernia that I got from picking up Saturday's Guardian was un-necessary! Lovely little piece that we, as adults, will happily look out for but would have passed un-noticed if we were still the kids that were happy reading Hot-Shot Hamish or Bernard Briggs.

Lew Stringer · Post by **Lew Stringer** » 11 Sep 2007, 20:29

colcool007 wrote:
Lew Stringer wrote:
colcool007 wrote:Meep! Of all the bits of The Guardian, that's the one piece that's missing! Grrr!
Fear not. Comics gossip columnist Rich Johnston has scanned in the whole strip here:

http://www.comicbookresources.com/colum ... ?column=13

...as well as nicking one of the images from my blog (of the first page of the strip), but we'll let him off.

Lew
Lew, I could kiss you...er..maybe not! I note that the guide actually came out on Friday so that the hernia that I got from picking up Saturday's Guardian was un-necessary! Lovely little piece that we, as adults, will happily look out for but would have passed un-noticed if we were still the kids that were happy reading Hot-Shot Hamish or Bernard Briggs.

No The Guide was definitely in Saturday's edition. If it was missing in yours (as these supplemental mags often are) it's the fault of a company in my home town which prints and distributes all of those weekend magazines for the various newspapers across the country. An ex-girlfriend of mine works there so blame her if you like.

Lew

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