The Beano

History of the British comic - 19th Century. In the 19th century, story papers, also known as "penny dreadfuls", served as entertainment for British children. Comic strips began to emerge slowly. Ally Sloper's Half Holiday, (1884), is reputed to be the first comic strip magazine to feature a recurring character, and the first British comic as would be recognised today. In 1890 two more comic magazines debuted to the British public, Comic Cuts and Illustrated Chips, both published by Amalgamated Pres ...

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William the Lion granted the town the status of burgh by royal charter in 1191. His brother, David, 8th Earl of Huntingdon is said to have named the town Donum Dei ('God's gift') upon narrowly escaping death during his return from the Crusades. However, this is probably folk etymology, as the name appears to come from Dun Dèagh meaning Fort on the Tay ("Dun" is a common prefix in Scottish placenames, cf Dunfermline and Dunkeld) Dundee - ...

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Dundee, Dundee - Location, Dundee - History, Dundee - Defence & destruction, Dundee - Reconstruction, Dundee - Maritime heritage, Dundee - The Tay Bridge Disaster, Dundee - Winston Churchill, Dundee - Modern Dundee, Dundee - Employment, Dundee - Universities and Colleges, Dundee - Immigration & multiculturalism, Dundee - Theatre & The Arts, Dundee - Football, Dundee - Ice Hockey, Dundee - Rugby, Dundee - Pop music, Dundee - Twinning, Dundee - City of Discovery, Dundee - Electric street-lighting, Dundee - The postage stamp, Dundee - The ATM, Dundee - Computing, Dundee - Aspirin, Dundee - Education, Dundee - High School of Dundee, Dundee - Reference, Dundee - Other Dundees in the World

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The first garden gnomes were introduced to the United Kingdom in 1847 by Sir Charles Isham, when he brought 21 terracotta figures back from a trip to Germany and placed them as ornaments in the gardens of his home, Lamport Hall in Northamptonshire. Only one of the original batch of gnomes survives: Lampy as he is known, is on display at Lamport Hall, and is insured for one million pounds. Garden gnomes have become a popular accessory in many gardens, although they are not loved by all. They are often the target of pranks ...

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Since the invention of the comic book format in the 1930s, the United States has been the leading producer, with only the British comic (during the inter-war period through the 1970s) and Japanese manga as close competitors in terms of quantity of titles (although, Japan outweighs America currently in overall sales by a vast margin). The majority of all comic books in the U.S. are marketed at younger teenagers, thoug ...

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(stripverhaal, strip; bande dessinée, BD) Main Article: Belgian comics Agent 212 by Raoul Cauvin (author) and Daniël Kox (artist) Bernard Prince by Greg (author) and Hermann (artist) Blake and Mortimer by Edgar Pierre Jacobs Colonel Clifton, by Raymond Macherot, later by Jo-El Azara, then by Turk & De Groot, then by Bédu, and currently by Rodrigue Comanche by Greg (author) and Hermann (artist) Dalla ...

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Viz comic - Featured Strips. Recurring or notable one-off strips include: Acker Bilk – (See Jimmy Hill) Aldridge Pryor – a pathological liar whose lies are ludicrous, such as The Nolan Sisters living in his fridge Badly Drawn Man – the singer Badly Drawn Boy is named after a one-off Viz cartoon character, who on the whole was very badly drawn Badly Overdrawn Boy – a variation on Badly Drawn Boy who is seen busking outside his local bank because he's skint B ...

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Dundee - Electric street-lighting. Dundee was the first city in the world to have electric street lights, employing bulbs designed by James Bowman Lindsay. Dundee - The postage stamp. James Chalmers is recognised as having invented the modern postage stamp in Dundee. His tombstone, in the Howff burial ground, reads: "Originator of the adhesive postage stamp which saved the penny postage scheme of 1840 from collapse rendering it an unquallified (sic) success and which has since been adopted throughout the postal systems of the world."

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Note: Voting ended in October 2001 and the winners were announced in June 2002, so news reports announced these variously as the 2000, 2001, or 2002 Eagle Awards. NORTH AMERICAN SECTION The following award nominations cover creators and work published in the US and Canada only (irrespective of the country of origin of the work or the nationality of its creators), with nominations based purely on work published in 2000: 1/1 FAVOURITE COLOUR COMICBOOK JSA Planetar ...

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Dundee - High School of Dundee. The High School of Dundee is one of Scotland's leading independent schools. It has its origins in the Grammar School founded by the Abbot and Monks of Lindores after they were granted a charter by Gilbert, Bishop of Brechin, in the early 1220s to "plant schools wherever they please in the burgh": their rights were confirmed by a Bull conferred upon them by Pope Gregory IX on 14 February 1239. It is from this Bull that the School's motto "Prestante Domino", translated as "Und ...

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Meta-reference can be traced back to traditional asides to the audience in theatrical productions, a feature of dramatic presentation which dates back at least to the time of William Shakespeare. These asides are an early form of the technique of "breaking the fourth wall", of which meta-reference is a major form. Several of Shakespeare's plays begin or end with references to the actors and the play itself, most famously A Midsummer Night's Dream, in which Puck concludes with a speech which includes the lines: If we sh ...

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In the later and most successful part of their career, which spanned the 1970s, they were joined behind the scenes by Eddie Braben, a script writer who generated almost all their material (Morecambe and Wise were also sometimes credited as supplying "additional material") and defined what is now thought of as typical Morecambe and Wise humour. Together Morecambe, Wise and Braben were known as "The Golden Triangle". Morecambe and Wise are considered by many t ...

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The term graphic novel was first coined by Richard Kyle in 1964, mainly as an attempt to distinguish the newly translated works from Europe which were then being published from what Kyle saw as the more juvenile publications common in the United States. The term was popularised when Will Eisner used it on the cover of the paeprback edition of his work A Contract with God, and Other Tenement Stories (1978). This was a more mature work than many had come to expect from the comics medium, and the critical and commercial success of A Contract with God helped to est ...

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Some of the duo's catchphrases include: "What do you think of it so far?" (said by Morecambe, who would use a prop—such as a statue or stuffed toy—to answer: "Rubbish!") "More tea, Ern?" (a pun on "tea urn", a vessel for serving hot drinks used in workplaces at the time) "[He's got] short fat hairy legs" (said by Morecambe of Wise) "You can't see the join!" (said by Morecambe of Wise's alleged wig) "The play what I wrote" (said by Wise of his literary works) "Arsenal!" (said as a ...

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Eric and Ernie first joined forces in 1941 when booked separately to appear in Jack Hylton's revue, Youth Takes a Bow. War service broke up the act but they reunited by chance in 1946 when they joined forces again. Initially appearing in music hall, they made their name in radio, transferring to television in 1954. Their show, Running Wild, was not well received and led to a damning newspaper review: "Definition of the week: TV set - the box in which they buried Morecambe and Wise." Eric apparently carried this review around wi ...

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Dundee - Employment. Dundee has never regained its status as a major manufacturing centre. In the 1960s and 70s the arrival in the city of three major companies — Michelin, NCR (the NCR plant being nicknamed "The Cash" among Dundonians), and Timex — went some way to alleviating unemployment. Timex closed their Dundee plant in early 90s, reflecting the industrial mood of the time. The development of a number of 'enterprise zones' and 'technology parks', and in particular the arrival of a number of call centres led to a period of economic optimism. Du ...

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DC Thomson publications include: Sunday Post The Courier and Advertiser My Weekly The Scots Magazine The Beano The Dandy Shout See the list of DC Thomson publications for a complete listing. ...

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Comic book - Franco-Belgian comics. Franco-Belgian comics are comics written in Belgium and France. These two countries have a long tradition in comics and comic books, where they are called BDs (from Bande Dessinée) in French. Belgian comic books originally written in Dutch are influenced by the francophone "Franco-Belgian" comics, but have a different feel. La bande dessinée is derived from the original description of the artform as "drawn strips". It is not insignifi ...

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British comics typically differ from the American comic book in a variety of respects. Although historically they shared the same format size, based on a sheet of imperial paper folded in half, British comics have moved away from this size, with the Beano and The Dandy the last to adopt a standard magazine size in the late 1980s. Until this point, the British comic was also usually printed on newsprint, with black or a dark red used as the dark colour and the four colour process used on the cover. The Beano and ...

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The comic was started in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1979 by Chris Donald who produced the comic from his bedroom, with help from his brother Simon and friend Jim Brownlow. It came about at around the time, and in the spirit of, the punk fanzines, and used alternative methods of distribution such as the prominent DIY record label and shop Falling A Records which was an early champion of the comic. The first 12-page issue went on sale for 20p (30p to students) in a local pub that hosted punk gigs, and within hours the run of 150 copies had sold ou ...

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The comics reading public in Britain were not always able to get reliable supplies of American comic books and yet have always enjoyed the different approach to comics writing from the other side of the Atlantic. So the lack of reliable supplies was supplemented by a variety of black and white reprints of Marvel's 1950s monster comics, Fawcett's Captain Marvel, and some other characters such as Sheena, Mandrake the Magician, The Phantom etc. Several reprint companies were involved in repackaging American material for the Britis ...

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Some of the characters have had their own television series. They are: The Fat Slags Roger Mellie (featuring the voices of Peter Cook and Harry Enfield) Sid The Sexist Billy The Fish A computer game using many Viz characters was produced in 1991. A movie based on The Fat Slags was produced in 2004. [1] ...

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