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BEANO’S BIRTHDAY CELEBRATED AT V&A
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THE BEANO’S 80th BIRTHDAY CELEBRATED AT THE V&A I’ve not yet visited the museum to check it out but I’ll do so soon and file a report. More follows. https://www.vam.ac.uk/event/6Oe8GjYB/beano-a-manual-for-mischief VAM.AC.UK V&A · Beano: A Manual for Mischief 2018 marks eighty years of continuous publication for the much loved
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Comic Art exhibitions mark Beano’s 80th birthday
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Britain’s favourite comic, The Beano, celebrates its eightieth birthday this summer and Comic Art will be marking the event with two major exhibitions of Beano screenprints. The Beano’s first edition was published on 30 July, 1938 and it’s been published ever since – sometimes selling nearly two million copies a week – making it Britain’s […]
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NEW PRINT: Asterix and the omni-shambles
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Asterix and the omni-shambles. Our Gaulish hero is in the company of a couple of burly tribesmen, who are accusing him of causing mayhem, chaos, an omni-shambles. The word was invented by writer Tony Roche, and it was first used in 2009 in the BBC’s political satire The Thick Of It. This screenprint was commissioned by his […]
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The Broons go fishing
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SALE ITEM: The Broons go fishing – I love the way the panel has internal echoes. Paw Broon and Granpaw Broon form a pair, as do their fishing rods, the speech bubbles, the hilltops and even the rocks in the river. And a ‘but and ben’ is apparently a two-roomed cottage in the countryside. It […]
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Popeye’s first ever appearance (1929)
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SALE ITEM: This is Popeye’s first ever appearance (1929). Our favourite sailor’s debut. It’s quite a good joke: he’s approached by Olive Oyl’s brother, Castor, to do a job taking them to a far-away island, but his introductory question: “Hey, there, are you a sailor?” is a stupid one seeing as Popeye is wearing a […]
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