Who created and drew the comic strip “The Fosdyke Saga”?
"The Fosdyke Saga The Fosdyke Saga was a British comic strip by cartoonist Bill Tidy, published in the ""Daily Mirror"" newspaper from March 1971 - February 1985. Described as ""a classic tale of struggle, power, personalities and tripe"", the strip was a parody of John Galsworthy's classic novel series ""The Forsyte Saga"". However, the slightly bizarre and strange antics of the characters and those around them had a Lancashire/Cheshire lean with mangles, chimneys and soot ever present. ""The Fosdyke Saga"" was the story of Roger Ditchley, a wastrel son of tripe magnate, Old Ben Ditchley, who was deliberately disinherited by"
"the latter was a parody of The Forsyte Saga, set in the industrial north instead of a genteel upper class environment. This was broadcast as a radio series in 42 parts by the BBC from 1983, with additional scripting by John Junkin. It also became a stage play with Tidy working in co-operation with playwright Alan Plater. Tidy recently restarted producing the Fosdyke Saga cartoon strip on his own website where he also offers a variety of his works for sale. Other cartoon strip series and individual cartoons have been published in many other newspapers and magazines, including ""New Scientist"""
"Fosdick"" sequences (supposedly drawn by ""Lester Gooch""); a notable villain was Bomb Face, a gangster whose head was a bomb. Chester Gould won the National Cartoonists Society's Reuben Award in 1959 and 1977. The Mystery Writers of America honored Gould and his work with a Special Edgar Award in 1980. In 1995, the strip was one of 20 included in the Comic Strip Classics series of commemorative postage stamps and postcards. ""Dick Tracy: The Art of Chester Gould"" was an exhibition in Port Chester, New York, at the Museum of Cartoon Art from October 4 through November 30, 1978. The"
"formal artistic training, he began to sell cartoons on a freelance basis and soon left the agency to work full-time as a professional cartoonist. As his work became better known and began to be published in the ""Daily Sketch"" and ""Daily Mirror"", he moved to London where, together with a number of his contemporaries in Fleet Street, he formed the British Cartoonists' Association. Tidy is known for his cartoon strips — The Cloggies ran from 1967 to 1981 in the fortnightly satirical magazine ""Private Eye"", and The Fosdyke Saga was published daily in the ""Daily Mirror"" from 1971 to 1984;"
"one on Daisy Mae in 1934. ""Li'l Abner"" also features a comic strip-within-the-strip: ""Fearless Fosdick"" is a parody of Chester Gould's ""Dick Tracy"". It first appeared in 1942, and proved so popular that it ran intermittently over the next 35 years. Gould was personally parodied in the series as cartoonist ""Lester Gooch""—the diminutive, much-harassed and occasionally deranged ""creator"" of Fosdick. The style of the ""Fosdick"" sequences closely mimicks ""Tracy"", including the urban setting, the outrageous villains, the galloping mortality rate, the crosshatched shadows, and even the lettering style. In 1952, Fosdick was the star of his own short-lived puppet show"
"Fearless Fosdick Fearless Fosdick is a long-running parody of Chester Gould's ""Dick Tracy"". It appeared intermittently as a strip-within-a-strip, in Al Capp's satirical hillbilly comic strip, ""Li'l Abner"" (1934–1977). Fearless Fosdick made his debut in an August 1942 ""Li'l Abner"" Sunday sequence, as the unflappable comic book idol of Abner's (and of every other ""100% red-blooded American boy!"") and an object of undying hero worship. Hayseed Abner mindlessly aped his role model—even going so far as submitting to marriage against his will. Cartoonist Al Capp (1909–1979) would often use ""Li'l Abner"" continuity as a narrative framing device, bookending the offbeat"
"Mandrake the Magician Mandrake the Magician was a syndicated newspaper comic strip, created by Lee Falk (before he created ""The Phantom""). ""Mandrake"" began publication on June 11, 1934. Phil Davis soon took over as the strip's illustrator, while Falk continued to script. The strip is distributed by King Features Syndicate. Mandrake, along with the Phantom Magician in Mel Graff's ""The Adventures of Patsy"", are regarded by comics historians as the first superheroes of comics. Comics historian Don Markstein writes, ""Some people say Mandrake the Magician, who started in 1934, was comics' first superhero."" Davis worked on the strip until his"
"George Storm, Richard Hall and Bill Dyer, the strip came to a conclusion in 1954. The strip originated as a fantasy. The story began with five-year-old Patsy carried away in a kite to the magical kingdom of Ods Bodkins. (This setting is unrelated to ""Odd Bodkins"", a later comic strip launched in 1964 by cartoonist Dan O'Neill.) During her fanciful journey, Patsy was accompanied and often rescued by the masked Phantom Magician. When they returned to Earth, the Phantom Magician doffed his duds for conventional clothing and assumed the identity of Phil Cardigan, Patsy's uncle, in December 1936. With stories"
"David Reddick David Reddick (born April 14, 1971 in Anderson, Indiana) is an American artist, illustrator and cartoonist. He is the creator of various popular comic strips such as ""Legend of Bill,"" ""The Trek Life"", ""Gene's Journal"" and ""Rod & Barry"" at Roddenberry.com, and he is a full-time cartoonist at ""Paws, Inc."", where he works on the ""Garfield"" worldwide property. Reddick also worked as an award-winning staff cartoonist at a daily newspaper for 6 years where his editorial cartoons and single-panel cartoons were distributed to newspapers nationwide through Artizans Syndicate, Scripps Howard News Service and CNHI News Service. Reddick also"
"of Fosdick's ""creator,"" the diminutive and occasionally mentally deranged cartoonist Lester Gooch. (Even Gooch's bogus ""autograph"" in the panels of ""Fearless Fosdick"" is a parody, a direct takeoff of Gould's own famously flamboyant signature.) Gooch toiled for the abusive and corrupt ""Squeezeblood Syndicate,"" a dig at Capp's own real-life syndicate, United Features, which owned ""Li'l Abner"" until Capp successfully wrested back ownership in 1948. Ironically the post-Gould Dick Tracy's favorite cartoon character was ""Fearless Fosdick""! Whatever Capp really thought of ""Dick Tracy"", he always went out of his way to praise Gould and his strip in conversation and in print,"
"the sixties. Representative samplings of ""Fearless Fosdick"" have been collected in two reprint anthologies, both published by Kitchen Sink Press. All titles are by Al Capp: Fosdick also appears sporadically, but memorably, in: Among Fosdick's initial appearances in ""Li'l Abner"" are: Fearless Fosdick Fearless Fosdick is a long-running parody of Chester Gould's ""Dick Tracy"". It appeared intermittently as a strip-within-a-strip, in Al Capp's satirical hillbilly comic strip, ""Li'l Abner"" (1934–1977). Fearless Fosdick made his debut in an August 1942 ""Li'l Abner"" Sunday sequence, as the unflappable comic book idol of Abner's (and of every other ""100% red-blooded American boy!"") and"
"René Goscinny René Goscinny (, ; 14 August 1926 – 5 November 1977) was a French comics editor and writer of Polish descent, who is best known internationally for the comic book ""Astérix"", which he created with illustrator Albert Uderzo, and for his work on the comic series ""Lucky Luke"" with Morris (considered the series' golden age) and ""Iznogoud"" with Jean Tabary. He also authored a series of children's books known as """"Le Petit Nicolas"""" series (Little Nicolas). Goscinny was born in Paris in 1926, to a family of Jewish immigrants from Poland. His parents were Stanisław Simkha Gościnny (the"
"the characters in ""L'Odyssée d'Astérix"" (""Asterix and the Black Gold""). Since 1996, the René Goscinny Award is presented at the yearly Angoulême International Comics Festival in France as an encouragement for young comic writers. According to UNESCO's Index Translationum, Goscinny, as of August 2017, was the 20th most-translated author, with 2,200 translations of his work. René Goscinny René Goscinny (, ; 14 August 1926 – 5 November 1977) was a French comics editor and writer of Polish descent, who is best known internationally for the comic book ""Astérix"", which he created with illustrator Albert Uderzo, and for his work on"
"Bill Tidy William Edward ""Bill"" Tidy, MBE (born 9 October 1933), is a British cartoonist, writer and television personality, known chiefly for his comic strips. Tidy was appointed MBE in 2000 for ""Services to Journalism"". He is noted for his charitable work, particularly for the Lord's Taverners, which he has supported for over 30 years. Deeply proud of his working class roots in the North of England, his most abiding cartoon strips, such as the Cloggies and the Fosdyke Saga, have been set in an exaggerated version of that environment. He now lives in Boylestone, Derbyshire. He was born in"
"own strip, something Capp briefly considered. Chester Gould, the creator of ""Dick Tracy,"" reportedly did not find Capp's parody particularly funny. This isn't surprising, since ""Fearless Fosdick"" lampoons every aspect of ""Dick Tracy,"" all grossly exaggerated for comic effect, from Fosdick's impossibly square-jawed profile to his propensity for creating mayhem beyond all reason. The style of the ""Fosdick"" sequences closely mimics ""Tracy""—including the urban setting, the outrageously grotesque villains, the galloping mortality rate, the thick square panels, the crosshatched shadows, and even the lettering style. Gould was also probably less than enamored of his own unflattering portrayal in the character"
"created and directed by puppeteer Mary Chase, written by Everett Crosby and voiced by John Griggs, Gilbert Mack and Jean Carson. ""Fearless Fosdick"" premiered on Sunday afternoons on NBC; 13 episodes featuring the Mary Chase marionettes were produced. The storylines and villains were mostly separate from the comic strip and unique to the show. Among the original TV characters were ""Mr. Ditto,"" ""Harris Tweed"" (a disembodied suit of clothes), ""Swenn Golly"" (a Svengali-like mesmerist), counterfeiters ""Max Millions"" and ""Minton Mooney,"" ""Frank N. Stein,"" ""Batula,"" ""Match Head"" (a pyromaniac), ""Sen-Sen O'Toole,"" ""Shmoozer"" and ""Herman the Ape Man."" Shmoos were originally meant"
"by Everett Crosby and voiced by John Griggs, Gilbert Mack, and Jean Carson. The storylines and villains were mostly separate from the comic strip and unique to the show. Thirteen episodes were produced featuring the Mary Chase marionettes. Presumed lost for many years, vintage kinescopes of the show have reportedly begun to resurface. (According to publisher Denis Kitchen: ""There are currently efforts underway to release these exceedingly rare ""Fosdick"" episodes on a set of DVDs. Stay tuned ..."") Two of the half-hour episodes (""The Haunted House"" and ""Lonely Hearts"") are housed at the Library of Congress, in the J. Fred"
"Tom Mandrake Tom Mandrake (born May 26, 1956) is an American comics artist, perhaps best known for his collaborations with writer John Ostrander on several series, including ""Grimjack"" (from First Comics) and ""Firestorm"", ""The Spectre"", and ""Martian Manhunter"" from DC Comics.<ref name=""John/Tom"">John Ostrander and Tom Mandrake collaborations at the Grand Comics Database</ref> Mandrake grew up as a fan of Marvel Comics of the 1960s, as well as painters of the Brandywine School, particularly Maxfield Parrish and Howard Pyle. Together with his friend L.B. Kellogg, he created a fanzine titled ""First Flight"" while in high school. Mandrake spent two years at"
"death in 1964, when Falk recruited current artist Fred Fredericks. With Falk's death in 1999, Fredericks became both writer and artist. The Sunday ""Mandrake"" strip ended December 29, 2002. The daily strip ended mid-story on July 6, 2013 when Fred Fredericks retired, and a reprint of D220 ""Pursuit of the Cobra"" from 1995 began on July 8, 2013. Mandrake is a magician whose work is based on an unusually fast hypnotic technique. As noted in captions, when Mandrake ""gestures hypnotically"", his subjects see illusions, and Mandrake has used this technique against a variety of villains including gangsters, mad scientists, extraterrestrials,"
"Asterix Asterix or The Adventures of Asterix ( or ""Astérix le Gaulois"" ) is a series of French comics. The series first appeared in the Franco-Belgian comics magazine ""Pilote"" on 29 October 1959. It was written by René Goscinny and illustrated by Albert Uderzo until the death of Goscinny in 1977. Uderzo then took over the writing until 2009, when he sold the rights to publishing company Hachette. In 2013, a new team consisting of Jean-Yves Ferri (script) and Didier Conrad (artwork) took over. As of 2017, 37 volumes have been released. The series follows the adventures of a village"
"""Le Theatre de Malaise"" and the 1964 dark satire ""The Death of JFK"". His first work of greater note was the picaresque feature ""The Adventures of Phoebe Zeit-Geist"", published as a serial in ""Evergreen Review"". This was an erotic satire of the comic book genre, later released in revised and expanded form as a book by that magazine's publisher, Grove Press. Drawn by Frank Springer, the comic detailed the adventures of debutante Phoebe Zeit-Geist as she was variously kidnapped and rescued by a series of bizarre Inuit, Nazis, Chinese foot fetishists, lesbian assassins and other characters. ""Doonesbury"" comic-strip creator Garry"
"Asterix and the Vikings Asterix and the Vikings (released in French as ""Astérix et les Vikings"") is a 2006 French-Danish animated feature film, written by Stefan Fjeldmark in collaboration with Jean-Luc Gossens, and directed by Stefan Fjeldmark and Jesper Møller. The film is a loose adaptation of the story from the graphic novel ""Asterix and the Normans"", which was written by René Goscinny and illustrated by Albert Uderzo. The plot concerns Asterix and Obelix trying to train the nephew of their village's chief, only to find themselves rescuing him from a tribe of vikings who believe him to be a"
"comic strip was launched by the New York Herald Tribune Syndicate on August 15, 1920. He continued to write and draw the strip for almost three decades. When he retired in 1948, Vince Fago drew the strip. Avon published Cady's ""Peter Rabbit Comics"" in 1947. His work is on display at the Thornton Burgess Museum in Sandwich, Massachusetts. Harrison Cady Walter Harrison Cady (1877–1970) was an American illustrator and author, best known for his ""Peter Rabbit"" comic strip which he wrote and drew for 28 years. Cady was born in Gardner, Massachusetts, to a town selectman, Edwin Cady, who ran"
"for the Mandrake strip by himself. The Mandrake Sunday page continued until the final (187th) story, ""Shadows on Devil Road"", ending December 29, 2002. In 2013, Fredericks retired, and the Mandrake daily comic strip went into reprints from 1995 beginning on July 8, 2013. He died March 10, 2015. Fred Fredericks Harold ""Fred"" Fredericks, Jr. (August 9, 1929 – March 10, 2015) was an American cartoonist, who drew the ""Mandrake the Magician"" comic strip from June 1965, taking over for the late Phil Davis. Creator Lee Falk modernized the comic when Fredericks took over the strip, making it more reality-based"
"of Reddick's original paintings and three original cartoons are also included in the permanent collection of the Muskegon Museum of Art. Reddick began writing ""The Trek Life"" in August 2005 as a weekly strip for StarTrek.com. ""The Trek Life"" follows three childhood friends who are all ""Star Trek"" fans. Reddick's webcomic stopped in December 2007, though Reddick stated that the strip would continue in ""Star Trek Magazine"". Reddick is also often a guest at Sci-fi, Fantasy, ""Star Trek"" and comics conventions nationwide. David Reddick David Reddick (born April 14, 1971 in Anderson, Indiana) is an American artist, illustrator and cartoonist."
"by his dour, pitiless landlady, Mrs. Flintnose. He never married his own long-suffering fiancée Prudence ""(ugh!)"" Pimpleton, but Fosdick was directly responsible for one of the seminal events of the strip—the famous marriage of his biggest fan, Li'l Abner, to Daisy Mae in 1952. As the only grownup member of the local ""Fearless Fosdick"" kiddie fan club, Abner had unwittingly vowed to do everything Fosdick does, not realizing that Fosdick's comic strip marriage was only a dream. (Ironically, Abner had previously told Daisy Mae that cartoonists often employ plot contrivances like dream sequences and impending weddings as sucker bait, to"
"Garry Trudeau Garretson Beekman ""Garry"" Trudeau (born July 21, 1948) is an American cartoonist, best known for the ""Doonesbury"" comic strip. Trudeau is also the creator and executive producer of the Amazon Studios political comedy series ""Alpha House"". Trudeau was born in New York City, the son of Jean Douglas (née Moore) and Francis Berger Trudeau Jr. He is the great-grandson of Dr. Edward Livingston Trudeau, who created Adirondack Cottage Sanitarium for the treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis at Saranac Lake, New York. Edward was succeeded by his son Francis and grandson Francis Jr. The latter founded the Trudeau Institute at"
"Lee Falk Lee Falk (), born Leon Harrison Gross (; April 28, 1911 – March 13, 1999), was an American writer, theater director and producer, best known as the creator of the popular comic strips ""The Phantom"" (1936–present) and ""Mandrake the Magician"" (1934–2013). At the height of their popularity, these strips attracted over 100 million readers every day. Falk also wrote short stories, and he contributed to a series of pulp novels about ""The Phantom"". A playwright and theatrical director/producer, Falk directed actors such as Marlon Brando, Charlton Heston, Paul Newman, Chico Marx and Ethel Waters. Falk was born in"
"well over ten years before creator Lee Falk introduced the comic strip character, and today, most people acknowledge the striking physical resemblance between them. Many sources assert that the comic strip character was drawn to resemble Leon. Phil Davis, the strip's artist, did meet Leon Mandrake and they became good friends and corresponded for years. Falk was said to have invented the name Mandrake the Magician coincidentally; though there is no written contract, both parties verbally agreed to cross-promote each other, with the result that Mandrake the Magician became recognized throughout North America. Mandrake was married twice, both times to"
"on comedy or he was recast as Scrooge's helper, following his rich uncle around the globe. Dozens of writers continued to utilize Donald in their stories around the world. For example, the Disney Studio artists, who made comics directly for the European market. Two of them, Dick Kinney (1917–1985) and Al Hubbard (1915–1984) created Donald's cousin Fethry Duck. The American artists Vic Lockman and Tony Strobl (1915–1991), who were working directly for the American comic books, created Moby Duck. Strobl was one of the most productive Disney artists of all time and drew many stories which Barks wrote and sketched"
"invariably referring to it as ""Chester Gould's magnificent ""Dick Tracy""."" In ""The World of Li'l Abner"" (1953), Capp even credited ""Dick Tracy"" (along with ""Little Orphan Annie"") with directly influencing ""Abner"", prompting his early decision to add suspense to the humorous feature. ""The greatest tribute paid to Chester Gould by another famous comic strip artist and storyteller and his creation was, of course, Al Capp's ""Fearless Fosdick"","" wrote author and ""Dick Tracy"" expert Garyn G. Roberts in 1993. ""In short, ""Fearless Fosdick"" was a great deal of fun, but must be taken seriously as a loving tribute to Chester Gould"
"have been his 104th birthday, April 28, 2015. Lee Falk Lee Falk (), born Leon Harrison Gross (; April 28, 1911 – March 13, 1999), was an American writer, theater director and producer, best known as the creator of the popular comic strips ""The Phantom"" (1936–present) and ""Mandrake the Magician"" (1934–2013). At the height of their popularity, these strips attracted over 100 million readers every day. Falk also wrote short stories, and he contributed to a series of pulp novels about ""The Phantom"". A playwright and theatrical director/producer, Falk directed actors such as Marlon Brando, Charlton Heston, Paul Newman, Chico"
"fool their gullible readers!) In addition to being fearless, Fosdick is ""pure, underpaid and purposeful,"" according to his creator. ""Fearless is without doubt the world's most idiotic detective. He shoots people for their own good, is pure beyond imagining, and is fanatically loyal to a police department which exploits, starves and periodically fires him,"" Capp told ""Pageant"" magazine in May 1952. Although Fosdick is the hero of all red-blooded American boys, Daisy Mae detests him with venomous passion. All throughout ""Li'l Abner,"" the neglected Daisy Mae finds herself in the ironic position of being jealous of a """"stoopid"" comical strip"