How was Alf Tupper known in the boy's comic 'Victor'?
"of the crowd and manages to record a three-minute mile. The character's adventures were written by Gilbert Lawford Dalton using the pen name W S K Webb, and a book, ""The Truth About Wilson"" collected a number of the text stories in the 1960s. Thought by Paul Gravett to be the prototype of the ""astonishing sporting prodigies"" who became popular in British comics, (cf. Alf Tupper, Roy of the Rovers), Gravett describes him as an ""unassuming totally dedicated loner, [wanting] no glory or publicity"". Although his stories were initially told in prose, a move to the comic papers ""The Hornet"""
"Alfie Atkins Alfie Atkins () is a fictional character created by the author Gunilla Bergström from Sweden in 1972. Alfie Atkins appears in books and animated cartoons. Alfie Atkins plays the roll of a normal child, living with his father. During his younger years he had an imaginary friend named Malcolm (""Mållgan"" in Swedish; Moggie in English TV version), that only Alfie could see. Later, he gets real friends such as ""Milla"" and Victor (""Viktor""). He also has a housecat named Puzzle (""Pussel""). In the books Alfie experiences many ordinary everyday events that all kids can easily recognize. In his"
"Doc Winner Charles H. Winner (December 18, 1885 – August 12, 1956), better known as Doc Winner, was an American cartoonist, notable for his comic strips ""Tubby"" and ""Elmer"", plus his contributions to ""Thimble Theatre"", ""Barney Google"" and other King Features strips. Born in Perryville, Pennsylvania, Winner had seven brothers and two sisters, the children of Barbara and John Winner, a roofing contractor. His drawing skills soon led him to nearby Pittsburgh, as he recalled: He drew sports cartoons for two years at the ""Pittsburgh Post"", succeeding Billy DeBeck, and became that newspaper's political cartoonist in 1910, relocating to the"
"Joe Btfsplk Joe Btfsplk was a character in the satirical comic strip ""Li'l Abner"" by cartoonist Al Capp (1909–1979). He is well-meaning, but is the world's worst jinx, bringing disastrous misfortune to everyone around him. A small, dark rain cloud perpetually hovers over his head to symbolize his bad luck. Hapless Btfsplk and his ever-present cloud became one of the most iconic images in ""Li'l Abner"". One storyline in the early 1970s features him trapping his cloud in a special anti-pollutant jar. Joe becomes romantically involved with a gal for the first time—until her crazed ex-boyfriend shows up to kill"
"months of improvisation they invented a character they called Harry Kipper and began experimenting with different theatrical formats to use him in. Upon being expelled for being ""too experimental"" they took to the road, touring constantly. When von Haselberg and Routh coined the name Kipper Kids, they were originally called Harry and Alf Kipper and had two distinctly different characters. Because von Haselberg and Routh could never remember who was Harry and who was Alf, they dropped the name Alf and decided to call each other Harry. At the same time they decided to make their characters identical. Thus the"
"through rural West Virginia and the Cumberland Valley as a teenager. (This was years before the Tennessee Valley Authority Act brought basic utilities like electricity and running water to the region.) Leaving ""Joe Palooka"", Capp sold ""Li'l Abner"" to United Feature Syndicate (later known as United Media). The feature was launched on Monday, August 13, 1934, in eight North American newspapers—including the ""New York Mirror""—and was an immediate success. Alfred G. Caplin eventually became ""Al Capp"" because the syndicate felt the original would not fit in a cartoon frame. Capp had it changed legally in 1949. His younger brother Elliot"
"""Harrisburg Patriot"" in 1914 and the ""Newark Star-Eagle"" in 1917. In 1923, he began his kid strip ""Tubby"" for United Feature Syndicate, as chronicled by comic strip historian Allan Holtz: Following the strip size of the period, ""Tubby"" was drawn five inches high and 19 inches wide. Winner's strip ""Elmer"", which ran from 1926 to 1956, was based on the friends of his youth, as he recalled, ""A great many of the stunts they do are ones we either did or tried to do when we were kids."" In the late 1930s, Winner had his own Sunday page with ""Elmer"""
"a dandruff shampoo. According to Al Capp, ""btfsplk"" is a rude sound. During public lectures, Capp demonstrated this sound by closing his lips, leaving his tongue sticking out, and then blowing out air, which is colloquially called a ""raspberry"" or Bronx cheer. Joe Btfsplk Joe Btfsplk was a character in the satirical comic strip ""Li'l Abner"" by cartoonist Al Capp (1909–1979). He is well-meaning, but is the world's worst jinx, bringing disastrous misfortune to everyone around him. A small, dark rain cloud perpetually hovers over his head to symbolize his bad luck. Hapless Btfsplk and his ever-present cloud became one"
"1941 and 1943. ""Elmer and His Dog"" was a 1935 Big Little Book. In the very last years of his life, Winner drew ""The Katzenjammer Kids"" (from 1947 to 1956). Winner lived with his wife, the former Agnes Reid, and two daughters in Upper Montclair, New Jersey. He died of cancer in 1956, he was 71. Doc Winner Charles H. Winner (December 18, 1885 – August 12, 1956), better known as Doc Winner, was an American cartoonist, notable for his comic strips ""Tubby"" and ""Elmer"", plus his contributions to ""Thimble Theatre"", ""Barney Google"" and other King Features strips. Born in"
"to play for a while. They build tall towers out toy blocks, when playing train Victor is allowed to be train driver, with Alfie as passenger. Alfie then even gives Victor his bun. When Victor leaves they decide to play even the upcoming day. Since that day, Alfie and Victor are best friends but sometimes they quarrel building towers of blocks rolling them over, fight over who will be train driver when playing train, and both want the biggest bun. But every time the older guys appear, Alfie ends up saved by Victor. Time progresses and Alfie has soon forgotten"
"as ""[w]ith his accurate spoof of the style of traditional British humour comics ... anticipat[ing] Viz by nearly three years."" He produced artwork for advertisements for an Ally Sloper T-shirt, which was published in several Alan Class Comics titles in 1976, to promote the ""Ally Sloper"" magazine. Gifford also initiated the Ally Sloper Awards in 1976, an annual prize for veteran comic artists. At a summit on comics history convened by the 1989 Lucca Comics Festival in Italy, Gifford was invited to be one of the eleven 'international specialists' to sign a declaration that The Yellow Kid was the first"
"the shipwreck, but he also reveals some new facts. He explains the “unfinished business” between him and the wickedness Mr. Cain. They had met when they were boys, when the villain went simply by the name Cain. He was a notorious cheat at dice and cards in the town where Victor grew up, and the neighbourhood boys referred to him as the Prince of Mist because, rumour had it, he appeared out of a haze in dark alleyways at night and disappeared again before dawn. He had a reputation for making young boys’ wishes come true in exchange for their"
"of a bombastic, super-chauvinistic legislator who drank only from Dixie cups and refused to drive through the Lincoln Tunnel,"" wrote ""The New York Times"". ""His stock expression, 'That's a joke, son,' was for many years one of the nation's pet phrases, mimicked by children and businessmen alike. ... The windbag character, he said, was inspired by a Texas cattle rancher who had picked him up while he was hitchhiking and barely stopped talking."" Delmar was later heard by a later generation of television watchers via the animated character called The Hunter which he voiced using his Senator Claghorn inflections, including,"
"out of excitement. Alton concludes the book by saying that he continues to play bridge, and his relationship with Toni is ""unauthorised information"". Alton Richards: The protagonist of the novel. He is 17 years old and has no job and no money. He often uses 'not so clever phrases'. At the start of the novel, Alton knows nothing about bridge but he eventually learns how to play and becomes an avid bridge player. Lester Trapp: Alton's Uncle. He has a passion for bridge and is blind and rich. He is a smart man who has a mysterious past with the"
"money at all) was the penniless hero of the stories, while Ivor Lott (which sounds like ""I've a lot"") - a spoiled, rich snob - was the villain. The format of the strips was usually the same; Tony would be enjoying himself with some simple, cheap toy or activity, and Ivor would show off with an incredibly expensive version of the toy, bullying his neighbour in the process. On other occasions Tony went up against Ivor's constant cheating at sports and games. In each strip, Tony would ultimately win out, by getting Ivor into trouble or by tricking him to"
"(a black-haired boy), and three other young cohorts named Fatso (a red-haired boy), Fisty (a blonde boy), and Sweetie (a blonde haired girl). It had stories in the form of full color one-page Sunday strips, black and white daily strips, and two issues of a comic book of the same title released by Toby Press. The advertisement comic was featured by many publishers and in the newspapers. Within the context of the stories, Captain Tootsie was quite strong and quicker to the punch than any of his enemies. His stories were light and ""kid-friendly"". Captain Tootsie's comic strip ads ended"
"offering to analyse items thought to be authored by the Ripper. Thomas Burke contributed stories. The weekly comic paper is widely cited as being the first comic book or magazine to feature a regular character, and is also often cited as the first comic as well. ""Half Holiday"" helped established the financial viability of the medium and codified the British form to an extent visible many years later in publications such as ""Viz"". During 1908 C. H. Chapman illustrated the Ally Sloper character. Chapman was better known as the artist that drew Billy Bunter from 1911 until ""The Magnet"" folded"
"or so prior when his then-seven-year-old son asked to read his work. Not having age-appropriate material for him, Winick gave him Jeff Smith's ""Bone"", which both father and son enjoyed, and decided to create an all-ages story that his son could read. The full color series, whose tone and visuals Winick describes as ""part ""E.T."", part ""Doctor Who"", part ""Peanuts"" and ""Calvin and Hobbes"""", stars a small town boy named D.J. whose life takes an unexpected turn when a mysterious boy named Hilo falls from the sky, and takes D.J. and his friend Gina on adventures that include robots, aliens"
"fashions of the period, with short pants, large collar with bow tie, suit jacket, and tiny sailor cap. Gradually, a more portly version of these boys began to appear, eventually becoming a ""regular"" in the feature, usually as a suitor or playmate to Lulu. Marge referred to this character as ""Joe"" but it wasn't until the character was adapted into animated form in a series of short films produced for Paramount that something of his personality began to emerge and the new name of Tubby was first used. Tubby makes silent appearances in two Lulu shorts from 1944, ""It's Nifty"
"drawings by W. A. Rogers (1854-1931). A sequel, ""Mr. Stubb’s Brother"", was published in 1883. ""Toby Tyler"" is a ""bad boy"" novel, meant to teach a lesson what happens to boys who do bad things; other examples include George W. Peck's ""Peck's Bad Boy"" (1883), Thomas Bailey Aldrich's ""The Story of a Bad Boy"" (1870), and Mark Twain's ""Adventures of Tom Sawyer"" (1876). As with Mark Twain's ""Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"" (1884), also about a conscience-stricken escaped and wandering orphan boy (written following the success of ""Toby Tyler""), most readers don't remember ""Toby Tyler"" for its wholesome message, but as"
"Telling Whoppers Telling Whoppers is a 1926 short silent comedy film directed by Robert F. McGowan and nephew Anthony Mack. It was the 55th ""Our Gang"" short subject released. The neighborhood bully, Tuffy, played by Johnny Downs, is determined to lick every boy in the neighborhood. He beats up one boy, makes Jay and Jackie stand on their heads, and makes Bonedust and Scooter bark like a dog. Along comes Joe and Farina wearing bandages, and pretending to be too disabled to fight, but Tuffy beats them up anyway. Joe and Farina encourage the boys to band together and they"
"indicative of everything that was wrong with the younger generation and the liberal attitudes they embraced. Alf was portrayed as the archetypal working-class Conservative. The subjects that excited him most were football and politics, though his actual knowledge of either was limited. He used language not considered acceptable for television in the 1960s. He often referred to racial minorities as ""coons"" and similar terms. He referred to his Liverpudlian son-in-law as ""Shirley Temple"" or a ""randy Scouse git"" (""Randy Scouse Git"", as a phrase, caught the ear of Micky Dolenz of the Monkees who heard it while on tour in"
"each image. Debate continues, but Gifford's research and conclusions into the origins of comics as a medium have gained considerable academic acceptance. Ally Sloper was championed by Gifford as the world's first ever comic character, and became a totemic figure for him, being revived and sometimes drawn by him in a number of comics and other publications that sought to ensure a modern readership had an awareness of early comic history. The ""Ally Sloper"" magazine was not a commercial success and lasted only four issues, but the innovation of Gifford's tone in the title was acknowledged by one cultural historian"
"Master Mind (comics) Master Mind was a comic strip in the British comic magazine ""Buster"". It made its first appearance in the issue dated 8 November 1980, and ran until 1983 when it was replaced with ""Cliff Hanger"". It was written and drawn by Jack Edward Oliver. Alf Witt was a boy who lived in the town of Flittem, and wasn't very clever. After falling into a hole, he met a wizard called Madness Madnesson (a reference to Magnus Magnusson, who hosted the television show ""Mastermind"" at this time) who gave him super powers. By getting into a telephone booth"
"as a boxer who lacks grace or ability, although the character Joe Palooka was the heavyweight champion. A dozen low-budget film adaptations of ""Joe Palooka"" appeared from the 1930s into the 1950s. Comic books featuring ""Joe Palooka"" began in 1933 and continued through the 1950s. Searching for assistants to work on the strip, Fisher hired (among others) Al Capp, who later achieved fame as the writer-cartoonist of ""Li'l Abner"". While ghosting on ""Joe Palooka"", Capp claimed to have created the storyline about a stupid musclebound hillbilly named ""Big Leviticus"", an apparent prototype for the Li'l Abner character. When Capp quit"
"of a mischievous tomboy, Stanley quickly expanded the cast of characters in Lulu's universe to an entire neighborhood of children while sketching out rich characterizations that captured as Don Phelps noted ""the mannerisms and slang"" of kids. Many stories revolved around the competition between the boys and girls, often involving the club Tubby, Iggy and the other boys formed whose clubhouse bore the iconic sign ""No Girls Allowed"". Lulu and her friend Annie would often scheme to ""teach the fellers a lesson"", much to the shock of the boys who were firm in the belief of the superiority of their"
"and saying the mystic word ""Pass"", Alf Witt would transform into a superhero called Master Mind. In the strip he would come across a supervillain and ask the readers for help on how to defeat him, this would usually involve puzzles such as anagrams, join the dots, and many others. Master Mind also had a dog that would accompany him, called Bones. Master Mind (comics) Master Mind was a comic strip in the British comic magazine ""Buster"". It made its first appearance in the issue dated 8 November 1980, and ran until 1983 when it was replaced with ""Cliff Hanger""."
"School"" and ""The Barnyard Club"" ran briefly in ""The Philadelphia Inquirer"". In the ""New York Herald"" ran ""Buddy Tucker"", about a bellhop, and ""Pore Lil Mose"", the first strip with an African-American title character—a prankster portrayed in a heavily stereotyped manner. Outcault introduced Buster Brown to the pages of the ""Herald"" on May 4, 1902, about a mischievous, well-to-do boy dressed in Little Lord Fauntleroy style, and his pit-bull terrier Tige. The strip and characters were more popular than the Yellow Kid, and Outcault licensed the name for a wide number of consumer products, such as children's shoes from the"
"of Anne Frank"", ""Eurovision Song Contest Winners"", and ""Hercule Poirot""). Unknowingly to the experts, the show was a complete hoax, and blatantly incorrect answers were included in order to frustrate them whenever they supplied the correct answer. The comedy show ""Snuff Box"" had the two main characters Rich Fulcher and Matt Berry both appear on Mastermind. Berry chose his specialist subject as Alton Towers and only scored 3 points before a blackout, in which he apparently shoots the host after being told to sit down. Fulcher chooses 'Anglo-Saxon architecture', though displays no knowledge of the subject and makes up answers"
"except in the separately drawn set-piece of Daffy singing ""The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down"" in which just a slight lisp can be heard. In ""The Scarlet Pumpernickel"" (1950), Daffy has a middle name, Dumas as the writer of a swashbuckling script, a nod to Alexandre Dumas. Also, in the ""Baby Looney Tunes"" episode ""The Tattletale"", Granny addresses Daffy as ""Daffy Horatio Tiberius Duck"". In ""The Looney Tunes Show"" (2011), the joke middle names ""Armando"" and ""Sheldon"" are used. Tex Avery and Bob Clampett created the original version of Daffy in 1937. Daffy established his status by jumping into the water, hopping"
"""That's a joke, son."" ""The Hunter"" was a dog detective whose nemesis was The Fox, a criminal fox who attempted bizarre capers, usually huge in scope (such as attempting to steal the Brooklyn Bridge, the Statue of Liberty or, in one episode, the State of Florida). The Hunter ran as an ancillary segment of the cartoon series King Leonardo and his Short Subjects, produced by Total Television Productions. At the height of his popularity, Delmar also starred as Claghorn in a theatrical feature film, ""It's a Joke, Son!"" in 1947. Delmar was also announcer and voice performer on ""The Alan"
"‘weakling’; someone who lacks moral character - letting everything ‘sieve straight through’ them. Tobias Seicherl, a typical petit bourgeois, was drunk on many occasions and often took to strolling through the streets of Vienna with his walking stick, pipe and dog named Struppi. It's somewhat ironic that the dog was the voice of reason in this strip. Little was known or discussed about Seicherl’s career or his living conditions, which made him the ideal person with which social-democratic readers could identify themselves, helping to vent their frustrations toward the bourgeois of the time. Between 1930 and 1939, the comic was"
"burp and eat cats, and can whistle without opening his mouth. He had a best friend on his home planet named Malhar Naik. He has friends named Skip, Rick, Stella, and a girlfriend named Rhonda, all of whom also escaped the explosion. He attended high school for 122 years and was captain of a ""Bouillabaisseball team"", a game played on ice using seafood as a ball. ALF is troublesome, sarcastic, slovenly and cynical, and sometimes puts himself at the risk of being discovered while perpetrating some of his often-unintentional pranks. However, if things have gone too far, he does as"