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19 Sep 07 - 05:44 PM (#2152981) Subject: BS: Terry and the Pirates From: Q (Frank Staplin) Yippee! "Terry and the Pirates" by Milton Caniff is being reissued complete in six volumes. Volume 1 is out! Reliving my childhood! |
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19 Sep 07 - 05:54 PM (#2152990) Subject: RE: BS: Terry and the Pirates From: Big Al Whittle Explain yourself sire. I know not of what you speak. |
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19 Sep 07 - 05:59 PM (#2152994) Subject: RE: BS: Terry and the Pirates From: catspaw49 Very cool......I was a fan of both Terry and Steve Canyon. Milton Caniff was a good Ohio boy born and bred and a grad of Ohio State. His works were the beginnings of OSU's Cartoon Library collection which is now quite extensive. I saw just the other day that some of his different works are being highlighted at Ohio State right now. If you're a cartoon lover and in Columbus some time, check out the Ohio State collection. Spaw |
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19 Sep 07 - 06:20 PM (#2153010) Subject: RE: BS: Terry and the Pirates From: Little Hawk The bizarre facial features, thick lips, and high cheekbones were what really struck me about "Terry and the Pirates". Very memorable. |
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19 Sep 07 - 06:25 PM (#2153014) Subject: RE: BS: Terry and the Pirates From: Bee-dubya-ell I never got the point of either strip. But I don't get the point of Donuel's posts either. |
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19 Sep 07 - 06:32 PM (#2153018) Subject: RE: BS: Terry and the Pirates From: Little Hawk The point appeared to be that there is nothing else on Earth as sexy, unstoppable, and totally cool as a young American paramilitary adventurer confronting nasty Asian villains, Commies, and other such swarthy foreign types and besting them in personal combat as only a two-fisted Yank can... The English had their heroes along that line too. Jungle Jim Bradley comes to mind. He too spent much of his time defeating sinister Asians and Communists in the steaming jungles. He also had a Native Malay sidekick named "Kolu". Kolu was a good Native. He may have been very distantly related to Tonto, but I'm not sure about that. |
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19 Sep 07 - 06:42 PM (#2153024) Subject: RE: BS: Terry and the Pirates From: Rapparee Tintin had Snowy.... |
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19 Sep 07 - 06:45 PM (#2153028) Subject: RE: BS: Terry and the Pirates From: Little Hawk Hmm. Upon further investigation it seems that Jungle Jim may have also been an American. I assumed he was British because his activities all seemed to take place in British-controlled areas of Southeast Asia. Here's an article about the Jungle Jim comics. Jungle Jim |
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19 Sep 07 - 06:57 PM (#2153039) Subject: RE: BS: Terry and the Pirates From: catspaw49 For those who don't know the subject here........... Terry and the Pirates Steve Canyon And of course.............. Spaw |
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19 Sep 07 - 07:06 PM (#2153042) Subject: RE: BS: Terry and the Pirates From: Little Hawk Ignore the 3rd link in Spaw's post above. It's about that walking turd, Cheech Wizard. From the article: "Cheech Wizard had little to say about the concerns of the generation among which the undergrounds flourished. His main concern was his own importance in the world, and his secondary concern was sex. But in that, to some extent at least, he did manage to represent his constituency in his own way." Yeah. He represented the worst possible jerks of the time. Like I said, a walking turd. In a hat. |
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19 Sep 07 - 07:08 PM (#2153044) Subject: RE: BS: Terry and the Pirates From: Rapparee Cheech Wizard is gonna treat you like Cheech Wizard treats everyone, LH. I hope you are ready to meet the Hat. |
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19 Sep 07 - 07:11 PM (#2153047) Subject: RE: BS: Terry and the Pirates From: Little Hawk Yeah? I have a surprise for the Hat. I will send his putrid carcass to Hades. |
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19 Sep 07 - 07:13 PM (#2153050) Subject: RE: BS: Terry and the Pirates From: Rapparee You and who else? The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers? |
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19 Sep 07 - 07:21 PM (#2153056) Subject: RE: BS: Terry and the Pirates From: Little Hawk I plan to deal with the Hat on his own level, Rap. Total surprise. Complete treachery. No mercy. When facing degenerate scum, one must put aside one's normal scruples briefly. |
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19 Sep 07 - 07:39 PM (#2153065) Subject: RE: BS: Terry and the Pirates From: catspaw49 And as when any rutabaga goes bad LH, you may find your balls popping up in the back of your throat... GOOOOMPH!!!!!Spaw |
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19 Sep 07 - 08:12 PM (#2153087) Subject: RE: BS: Terry and the Pirates From: Q (Frank Staplin) The Dragon Lady was my dream- |
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19 Sep 07 - 08:30 PM (#2153095) Subject: RE: BS: Terry and the Pirates From: jeffp Thanks for that link, Spaw. Beautifully executed. And with input from Vaughn Bode's son, too! |
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19 Sep 07 - 09:06 PM (#2153119) Subject: RE: BS: Terry and the Pirates From: Little Hawk I prefer the incident where the female inhabitant boots Cheech about 50 feet when he won't stop hitting on her. |
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19 Sep 07 - 09:15 PM (#2153121) Subject: RE: BS: Terry and the Pirates From: Charley Noble Q- I'll believe it when I see it. Years ago someone published the early years but they never got into the rich literature of the World War 2 period. Maybe I need to compose a ballad about the Dragon Lady, and how she saved Charley Noble from certain death... Cheeril;y, Charley Noble |
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19 Sep 07 - 09:16 PM (#2153122) Subject: RE: BS: Terry and the Pirates From: Don Firth Ah, yes! The Dragon Lady! And Burma! Not bad at all! But the lovely, wistful Willow Belinda. . . . She is not one of the best remembered characters in "Terry and the Pirates," but my, oh, my! Don Firth |
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19 Sep 07 - 11:36 PM (#2153170) Subject: RE: BS: Terry and the Pirates From: Q (Frank Staplin) "Terry and the Pirates" Volumes 1-3 cover 1934-1940; 2-3 will appear in January 2008. Idea and Design Works (IDW) is the publisher. The remaining volumes are planned on a quarterly schedule. Dean Mullaney of IDW and Ohio State University are providing material. We shall see, Charley. "Little Orphan Annie" is in the planning stages, "Dick Tracy" is ongoing. |
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19 Sep 07 - 11:58 PM (#2153181) Subject: RE: BS: Terry and the Pirates From: katlaughing I loved Dick Tracy, followed Mark Trail and Steve Canyon, but I ain't never heard of them other fellahs, esp. that wizard/hat guy! Thanks for the link, Spaw...I think!:-) I wonder how many of them BillD has in that basement of his... |
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20 Sep 07 - 12:10 AM (#2153192) Subject: RE: BS: Terry and the Pirates From: Little Hawk Cheech Wizard is actually from a rather different category of comic strip to those others...he is from the "freak" comics of the early 70's. Spaw just added him to bug me. ;-) He knows I hate Cheech Wizard. Truth be told, I detested most of the "freak" comics (specially anything by Crumb), but I did like the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers and Fat Freddy's Cat. Dick Tracy was an interesting example from the classic era of comics...sort of creepy in some respects, but very memorable and unique. Frank Cho did a hilarious parody of Mark Trail recently in the Liberty Meadows comics. |
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20 Sep 07 - 11:57 AM (#2153476) Subject: RE: BS: Terry and the Pirates From: Q (Frank Staplin) The Washington Post on line version prints most of the comics appearing in American mewspapers. www.washingtonpost.com, click on Arts and Living, and that will give you a link to the comics. MarK Trail is included. Other survivors include Mary Worth, Beetle Bailey, and Barney Google |
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20 Sep 07 - 04:13 PM (#2153701) Subject: RE: BS: Terry and the Pirates From: Q (Frank Staplin) Coincidentally, I am reading "The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana," by Umberto Eco. A man loses his memory as the result of a stroke, but retains images of everything he had read. He searches his childhood literature and popular music seeking a key to his lost memory. A child in Italy during WW2, his reading takes him through comics songs and magazines of the time of Mussolini and the immediate post-war period. One of the comics of 1939 was "On China's Seas," an Italianized "Terry and the Pirates." From American soldiers, he obtained a few originals in 1945. Connie is shown with Terry and a great image (full page) of the Dragon Lady. This book awakens my memories as well; examples of the comics and title pages of stories are shown in color, and lyrics quoted of popular songs like "Lili Marlene." Mandrake, Ming the Merciless, Azura and Flash Gordon, sheet music cover to Hope's "Road to Zanzibar," Bing Crosby in "Going My Way," Holmes and Watson, fancy cigarette packages (Murad, etc.), stamps from Labuan and Fiji, "The Count of Monte Cristo," "Treasure Island," much more. A great read, a 'keeper.' |
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20 Sep 07 - 08:56 PM (#2153933) Subject: RE: BS: Terry and the Pirates From: Rapparee One must maintain the same sense of Wonder one had in one's youth. |
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20 Sep 07 - 10:44 PM (#2154008) Subject: RE: BS: Terry and the Pirates From: Little Hawk Ah, yes...the peerless glory of Wonder Warthog! Another favorite of mine. I always liked Gilbert Shelton's stuff, but detested most of his well known underground contemporaries like Art Crumb. Shelton had a sense of humour and aesthetics I could relate to. Crumb did not. |
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20 Sep 07 - 11:00 PM (#2154021) Subject: RE: BS: Terry and the Pirates From: katlaughing Q, that sounds like a really great book. Ya almost lost me back at "mewspapers"...wonderful images came to mind...cats on papers, papers delivered to old mews in London and elsewhere...musepapers, etc., etc. Thanks! |
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20 Sep 07 - 11:01 PM (#2154022) Subject: RE: BS: Terry and the Pirates From: Bee I liked Bode's work so much I named two of my cats after his characters. Thanks for the memory trip, Little Hawk. ;-) |
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20 Sep 07 - 11:11 PM (#2154023) Subject: RE: BS: Terry and the Pirates From: Little Hawk I think you should be thanking Spaw, not me... ;-) |