"Colonel Blimp Colonel Blimp is a British cartoon character by cartoonist David Low, first drawn for Lord Beaverbrook's London ""Evening Standard"" in April 1934. Blimp is pompous, irascible, jingoistic, and stereotypically British, identifiable by his walrus moustache and the interjection ""Gad, Sir!"". Low claimed that he developed the character after overhearing two military men in a Turkish bath declare that cavalry officers should be entitled to wear their spurs inside tanks. The character was named after the barrage balloon, which was known as a blimp. Blimp issues proclamations from the Turkish bath, wrapped in his towel and brandishing some mundane"
"David Low (cartoonist) Sir David Alexander Cecil Low (7 April 1891 – 19 September 1963) was a New Zealand political cartoonist and caricaturist who lived and worked in the United Kingdom for many years. Low was a self-taught cartoonist. Born in New Zealand, he worked in his native country before migrating to Sydney in 1911, and ultimately to London (1919), where he made his career and earned fame for his Colonel Blimp depictions and his merciless satirising of the personalities and policies of German dictator Adolf Hitler, Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, and other leaders of his"
"from the Evening Standard and The Manchester Guardian, as well as original caricatures from his ""New Statesman"" series. Australia David Low (cartoonist) Sir David Alexander Cecil Low (7 April 1891 – 19 September 1963) was a New Zealand political cartoonist and caricaturist who lived and worked in the United Kingdom for many years. Low was a self-taught cartoonist. Born in New Zealand, he worked in his native country before migrating to Sydney in 1911, and ultimately to London (1919), where he made his career and earned fame for his Colonel Blimp depictions and his merciless satirising of the personalities and"
"David Law David ""Davey"" Law (1908 – April 1971) was a Scottish cartoonist best known for creating ""Dennis the Menace"" and ""Beryl the Peril"" for Dundee publishers D. C. Thomson & Co. Ltd . Law was born and raised in Edinburgh and educated at Edinburgh College of Art. He first worked for Odhams Press as an illustrator, before moving to D. C. Thomson in the early 1930s. He drew cartoons for Thomsons newspapers like the ""Evening Telegraph"", including a strip called ""The Wee Fella"". His most famous creation, ""Dennis the Menace"", first appeared in ""The Beano"" issue 452, dated 17"
"The accident-prone Corporal was often seen driving an Army Jeep, with the oft-viewed ICU2 number-plate. Corporal Clott Corporal Clott was a strip in the British comic ""The Dandy"". It started in the issued dated 12 November 1960 (issue 990) and was drawn by Dennis the Menace artist David Law. The strip was drawn by David Law until issue 1496 dated 25 July 1970. The strip continued after David Law left it with these strips being drawn by Bully Beef and Chips artist Jimmy Hughes. Jimmy Hughes version of the strip ended in the 1970s however the strip was revived in"
"The Colonel (Monty Python) The Colonel is a recurring fictional character from the British television show ""Monty Python's Flying Circus"", played by Graham Chapman. The Colonel acts as a ""straight man"" comic foil to the show's absurd characters and sketches. He maintains a rigidly mirthless personality and is always dressed in khaki British Army uniform. He occasionally makes appearances in the show, usually breaking the fourth wall and disrupting sketches to pronounce them too silly for the public and, therefore, demanding that something else be shown. He often orders the show to proceed in a different direction (sometimes to the"
"briefly to ""The Beano"" in 1971, but died in April that year, aged 63. David Law David ""Davey"" Law (1908 – April 1971) was a Scottish cartoonist best known for creating ""Dennis the Menace"" and ""Beryl the Peril"" for Dundee publishers D. C. Thomson & Co. Ltd . Law was born and raised in Edinburgh and educated at Edinburgh College of Art. He first worked for Odhams Press as an illustrator, before moving to D. C. Thomson in the early 1930s. He drew cartoons for Thomsons newspapers like the ""Evening Telegraph"", including a strip called ""The Wee Fella"". His most"
"also produced by Connelly and Mosher. Calvin and the Colonel Calvin and the Colonel is an animated cartoon television series in 1961 about Colonel Montgomery J. Klaxon, a shrewd fox and Calvin T. Burnside, a dumb bear. Their lawyer was Oliver Wendell Clutch, who was a weasel (literally). The colonel lived with his wife Maggie Belle and her sister Susan Culpepper, who did not trust the colonel at all. Colonel Klaxon was in the real estate business, but always tried get-rich-quick schemes with Calvin's unwitting help. The series was an animated remake of ""Amos 'n' Andy"" [or, more or less,"
"Calvin and the Colonel Calvin and the Colonel is an animated cartoon television series in 1961 about Colonel Montgomery J. Klaxon, a shrewd fox and Calvin T. Burnside, a dumb bear. Their lawyer was Oliver Wendell Clutch, who was a weasel (literally). The colonel lived with his wife Maggie Belle and her sister Susan Culpepper, who did not trust the colonel at all. Colonel Klaxon was in the real estate business, but always tried get-rich-quick schemes with Calvin's unwitting help. The series was an animated remake of ""Amos 'n' Andy"" [or, more or less, ""Andy and The Kingfish""] and featured"
"and the episode ""Space Madness"" includes a recreation of ""Colonel Bleep's"" title sequence. Colonel Bleep Colonel Bleep was the first color cartoon series made for television. It was created by Fran Noack and written by Robert D. Buchanan, and was animated by Soundac of Miami. (Some sources have Joseph Barbera with a hand in its creation as well, although his contribution was short-lived before he rejoined William Hanna to form Hanna-Barbera.) The show was originally syndicated in 1957 as a segment on ""Uncle Bill's TV Club"". 104 episodes, of varying length of between three and six minutes each, were produced."
"The Captain's Doll The Captain's Doll is a short story or novella by the English author D. H. Lawrence. It was written in 1921 and first published by Martin Secker in March 1923 in a volume with ""The Ladybird"" and ""The Fox"". It was the basis of the 1983 TV film of the same name with Jeremy Irons as the Captain. The story chronicles the journey of fallen German aristocrat Countess Johanna 'Hannele' zu Rassentlow as she dates a Scottish officer of unusual philosophy. The relationship develops into one of D. H. Lawrence's idiosyncratic 'wicked triangles'. The intimate relationship between"
"surviving members of Monty Python sent a ""boot-shaped floral arrangement"" to Graham Chapman's funeral, which included the phrase ""stop us if we're all getting too silly"", in recognition of his role as The Colonel. The Colonel (Monty Python) The Colonel is a recurring fictional character from the British television show ""Monty Python's Flying Circus"", played by Graham Chapman. The Colonel acts as a ""straight man"" comic foil to the show's absurd characters and sketches. He maintains a rigidly mirthless personality and is always dressed in khaki British Army uniform. He occasionally makes appearances in the show, usually breaking the fourth"
"Captain Lorrington ""Gimlet"" King Captain Lorrington ""Gimlet"" King is a character created by the British author W.E. Johns, best known as the creator of Biggles and Worrals. The name 'Gimlet' is derived from a sharp implement resulting in a term for someone with keen eyesight. Johns is thought to have been inspired by Major 'Gimlet' Champion, one of his commanding officers during his flying career. The rest of the name may have been inspired by South African soldier and adventurer William Lorraine King who died shortly before the first novel was published. The books which were published during and after"
"World War II. His stinging depictions of Hitler and Mussolini led to his work being banned in Italy and Germany, and his being named in The Black Book. The son of chemist David Brown Low and Jane Caroline Flanagan, David Low was born in Dunedin on 7 April 1891, and attended primary school there. His family later moved to Christchurch, where Low briefly attended Christchurch Boys' High School. However following the death of his eldest brother, Low was taken out of school, as his parents believed that he had been weakened by over studying. Low's first cartoon was published in"
"translated. 1. My Dear Wilkinson, 2005, 2. The Laughing Thief, 2005, 3. 7 days to die, 2006, 4. The Black Moon, 2007, 5. Jade, 2008, 6. Kidnapping, 2009, 7. Elementary, My Dear Clifton, Clifton (comics) Clifton is a Franco-Belgian comics series in the humorous spy-genre, featuring the exploits of Colonel Sir Harold Wilberforce Clifton. It was created by Raymond Macherot in 1959, and has since passed on to other artists and writers. Over the fifty years of publication of the Clifton series, approximately twenty albums and twenty smaller stories have been published, totalling about 800 pages. A British colonel, retired"
"Robert D. Buchanan Robert D. Buchanan (born 17 August 1931) is a creator of several animated TV shows in the 1950s and 1960s. Most notably, he created the five-minute cartoon ""Colonel Bleep"", the first color cartoon produced for television. Produced at Soundac Studios in Miami, Colonel Bleep was syndicated in 1957. In 1965, Buchanan co-produced another animated series, ""Mighty Mr. Titan"". Soundac also produced ""Weather Man"", a series of short animated clips for stations that relied on Weather Bureau forecasts to relay the weather. Buchanan and Soundac ceased operations in the early 1970s. Master tapes of his productions were stolen"
"significantly in ""Biggles follows on"" (1952) http://www.gimlet.co Captain Lorrington ""Gimlet"" King Captain Lorrington ""Gimlet"" King is a character created by the British author W.E. Johns, best known as the creator of Biggles and Worrals. The name 'Gimlet' is derived from a sharp implement resulting in a term for someone with keen eyesight. Johns is thought to have been inspired by Major 'Gimlet' Champion, one of his commanding officers during his flying career. The rest of the name may have been inspired by South African soldier and adventurer William Lorraine King who died shortly before the first novel was published. The"
"Colonel Bleep Colonel Bleep was the first color cartoon series made for television. It was created by Fran Noack and written by Robert D. Buchanan, and was animated by Soundac of Miami. (Some sources have Joseph Barbera with a hand in its creation as well, although his contribution was short-lived before he rejoined William Hanna to form Hanna-Barbera.) The show was originally syndicated in 1957 as a segment on ""Uncle Bill's TV Club"". 104 episodes, of varying length of between three and six minutes each, were produced. Of these episodes, slightly fewer than half are known to survive today. In"
"Battery on the Isle of Wight, which remain on display there. Geoff Campion Arthur Geoffrey Campion (19 November 1916 — 8 December 1997) was a British comics artist who drew adventure strips for Amalgamated Press/IPC. He started out as a tax inspector. As a staff officer in the East India Command in WWII he began drawing cartoons for the forces' magazine, ""Jambo"". Returning to England, he responded to an ad from the Amalgamated Press looking for artists in 1948. He was hired by editor Leonard Matthews to draw humour strips like ""Professor Bloop"" in ""Knock-Out"", and filled in on a"
"Combat Colin Combat Colin is a slapstick comedy adventure comic strip created, written and drawn by humour comic artist/writer Lew Stringer. It appeared in a number of Marvel UK titles. ""Combat Colin"" appeared as a back-up humour strip in ""Action Force"" comic in the 1980s. Stringer had a back-up story, ""Robocapers"" in ""The Transformers"" and was asked if he could come up with something similar for ""Action Force"" and he came up with a story about a character who was originally named ""Dimbo"" when he submitted it. The story then moved over to ""The Transformers"" comic for a popular run."
"is a common sight in British editorial cartoons of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Singer David Bowie wore a coat in the style of Bull. Washington Irving described him in his chapter entitled ""John Bull"" from ""The Sketch Book:"" The cartoon image of stolid, stocky, conservative and well-meaning John Bull, dressed like an English country squire, sometimes explicitly contrasted with the conventionalised scrawny, French revolutionary ""sans-culottes"" Jacobin, was developed from about 1790 by British satirical artists James Gillray, Thomas Rowlandson and George Cruikshank. (An earlier national personification was Sir Roger de Coverley, from a 1711 edition of ""The Spectator."")"
"Corporal Clott Corporal Clott was a strip in the British comic ""The Dandy"". It started in the issued dated 12 November 1960 (issue 990) and was drawn by Dennis the Menace artist David Law. The strip was drawn by David Law until issue 1496 dated 25 July 1970. The strip continued after David Law left it with these strips being drawn by Bully Beef and Chips artist Jimmy Hughes. Jimmy Hughes version of the strip ended in the 1970s however the strip was revived in 1987 by Steve Bright and later dropped again. The character was also featured in a"
"character was actually created first. Law's ""Dennis"" was a juvenile anti-hero, uncontrollable and destructive, drawn in spontaneous, edgy lines, and was an immediate hit; the strip eventually displaced ""Biffo the Bear"" on the comic's full colour front cover in 1974. Law went on to create ""Beryl the Peril"", a similarly anarchic female character, for the ""Topper"" in 1953, and the accident-prone soldier ""Corporal Clott"" for ""The Dandy"" in 1960. He was taken ill in 1970, and his strips were taken over by other artists, including David Sutherland on ""Dennis the Menace"" and John Dallas on ""Beryl the Peril"". Law returned"
"Colonel Crackpot's Circus Colonel Crackpot's Circus was a British comic strip, published from 1960 until 1963 in ""The Beano"". It was the first Beano comic strip drawn by Malcolm Judge, who later went on to draw ""Billy Whizz"" and ""Ball Boy"" for the same comic, as well as ""The Numskulls"" for ""The Beezer."" The strip was about a circus and the slapstick adventures of the circus folk and often involved Colonel Crackpot (the circus ringleader) trying not to pay his workforce what they were worth. In its Beano incarnation the main characters were Colonel Crackpot (the ringleader), Charlie Globes (the"
"as ""Marco Polo Junior Versus the Red Dragon"", ""Charlie Chan"", ""The Lone Ranger"", ""Rocket Robin Hood"" and ""Super Friends"". ""Captain Justice"" appeared in the ""Woman's Day"" magazine in September 1964, where it ran until April 1965. From 1965 through to 1966 Wedd produced the cartoon mascot 'Dollar Bill', which appeared in a series of educational cartoons for the Decimal Currency Board, as part of the public information campaign about Australia's switch to decimal currency in 1966. On leaving the animation field Wedd concentrated on freelance work and production of a new comic strip based on the life of Ned Kelly."
"Sir Wilfrid Lawson he published ""Cartoons in Rhyme and Line"" (1905). Frequently grafting his ideas onto subjects taken freely from ""Uncle Remus"", ""Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"", and the works of Dickens and Shakespeare, Gould used these literary vehicles with extraordinary dexterity and point, but with a satire that was not unkind and with a vigour from which bitterness, virulence and cynicism were notably absent. He was knighted in 1906. Unpublished manuscripts and biographical material are in the House of Commons Library historical collections, kept in the House of Lords Record Office. Carruthers Gould was responsible for designing 11 Toby jugs"
"Cam Kennedy Campbell (""Cam"") Kennedy is a Scottish comics artist. He is best known for his work on ""2000 AD"", especially the flagship titles ""Judge Dredd"" and ""Rogue Trooper"". Following work in commercial art in his hometown of Glasgow, Kennedy went freelance and worked as an illustrator on D.C. Thomson's ""Commando"", a well-known British war comic, between 1967 and 1972, before leaving comics altogether to become a professional fine artist. Kennedy's work has been described as gritty, energetic, chunky and raw. In 1978 he was lured back to comics work again, beginning by drawing the ""Fighting Mann"" (1980-81) strip for"
"of Rudolf Erich Raspe. The Englishness of the commander, the reluctance of his audience to listen to his far-fetched stories, and the commander's insistence on telling them, suggest the influence of P.G. Wodehouse's ""Oldest Member"" golf stories as well. Other influences include the early animated character Colonel Heeza Liar, the subject of a number of animated shorts created by John R. Bray and directed by Walter Lantz, who was later known for the Woody Woodpecker franchise. Another influence may have been Captain Geoffrey Spicer-Simson DSO, RN, a career Royal Navy officer noted for telling of his improbable exploits whose career"
"Malcolm Judge Malcolm Judge (1918 – 17 January 1989) was a British cartoonist, best known for his contributions to DC Thomson's range of comics. He was married, had one daughter, and lived in Bishopbriggs near Glasgow. His early career was spent as a writer and journalist, and in 1948 he began contributing comic strips to the newspapers and magazines at DC Thomson. He contributed his first strip, The Badd Ladds to The Beezer in 1960, and Colonel Crackpot's Circus to The Beano the same year. He created several more popular strips including The Numskulls in the Beezer in 1962, Billy"
"Colonel Blink Colonel Blink (tagline: ""The Short-Gighted Gink"") was a British comic strip, drawn by Tom Bannister in November 1958 for the majority of its run, with a few later strips being drawn by Bill Ritchie and Gordon Bell in the same style as Bannister. The strip was published in the comics magazine ""The Beezer"". Denis Gifford in his Encyclopedia of Comic Characters (1987) attributes his creation to ""Carmichael."" These days he occasionally appears in the reprint Classics from the Comics series. Colonel Blink, whose name was a pun on ""Colonel Blimp"", is a former military colonel who is short-sighted."
"Kevin O'Neill (comics) Kevin O'Neill (born 1953) is an English comic book illustrator best known as the co-creator of ""Nemesis the Warlock"", ""Marshal Law"" (with writer Pat Mills), and ""The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen"" (with Alan Moore). O'Neill began working for the publishing company IPC at the age of 16 as an office boy for ""Buster"", which was a children's humour title. In 1975 he started publishing, as a personal side project, the fanzine ""Just Imagine: The Journal of Film and Television Special Effects"" which lasted five regular issues and one special issue through 1978. By 1976 he was working"
"in November 2009. In 2017 he co-wrote, with Pat Mills, a novel, ""Serial Killer"". Kevin O'Neill (comics) Kevin O'Neill (born 1953) is an English comic book illustrator best known as the co-creator of ""Nemesis the Warlock"", ""Marshal Law"" (with writer Pat Mills), and ""The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen"" (with Alan Moore). O'Neill began working for the publishing company IPC at the age of 16 as an office boy for ""Buster"", which was a children's humour title. In 1975 he started publishing, as a personal side project, the fanzine ""Just Imagine: The Journal of Film and Television Special Effects"" which lasted"
"and the ancient Queen Cleopatra, as the embodiment of the Egyptian state, were shown to have torn up the treaty of 1936 which provided for Britain's military presence in the Suez Canal zone. The caption, ""Hush! here comes Anthony"", was taken from Shakespeare. (This cartoon was a reference to Egypt's denunciation of the treaty on 9 October 1951, thus posing an early problem for Winston Churchill's incoming government.) Journalist and social historian Anne de Courcy has written of Chamberlain that ""he did not smoke a pipe, nor, as Anthony Eden did, always wear the same distinctive hat, though cartoonists made"