The cartoon character 'Flook' appeared in which national newspaper from 1949 to 1984?
"the Left-leaning ""Daily Mirror"" and ""Sunday Mirror"" in 1984–85, scripted by Keith Waterhouse (shortly before he moved to the ""Mail""). Flook was adopted as a mascot by 831 Squadron, Fleet Air Arm, and the character was painted on the squadron aircraft. Flook (comic strip) Flook was a British comic strip which ran from 1949 to 1984 in the ""Daily Mail"" newspaper. It was drawn by Wally Fawkes (of the jazz group Wally Fawkes and the Troglodytes), who signed the strips as ""Trog"". It was the first newspaper comic strip to be published by the New Zealand newspaper ""Otago Daily Times"","
"Malcolm Hancock Malcolm ""Mal"" Hancock (May 20, 1936 – February 16, 1993) was an American comics artist and cartoonist, most notable for his work in ""National Review"". Hancock's work was also seen regularly in such publications as Playboy, The Saturday Evening Post motive Magazine, and the Washington Post. He drew many comic strips, including 'Nibbles' (1961–63), 'Humphrey Hush' (1963),'Patrick' (1965–69), 'The Fantastic Foster Fenwick' (1968–72), Polly (1972-73), 'Fenwick' (1977-1979), 'The Lumpits' (1970–78) 'Pig Newton' (1983),'Willie' (1983-85) 'Malfunction Junction]' (1990–93), and 'Hi and Jinx' (1991–93). The Citadel Press, Inc. (NYC) published a book of his earliest cartoons in 1968: 'How Can"
"fell to the old ""Sketch"" editor David English. He gave the role of political cartoonist to Stan McMurtry and Fawkes was dropped from his old role. Fawkes returned to ""The Observer"" in 1971 and continued to work for ""Punch"". After ""Flook"" was cancelled in 1985, Fawkes worked briefly for ""Today"" and then served a short stint at the ""London Daily News"". During the 1980s he continued to contribute to ""Punch"" and ""Private Eye"", and for the ""Observer"" he drew a pocket cartoon named ""mini-Trog"". In 1996 he left ""The Observer"" and joined ""The Sunday Telegraph"", where he remained until failing"
"artist and part-time cartoonist on ""The Mercury"", drawing under the name ""Jeff"". He moved to Melbourne and started at ""The Sun News-Pictorial"" in 1964. Hook became the full-time cartoonist for ""The Sun News-Pictorial"" (later to be merged with the afternoon newspaper ""The Herald"" to become the ""Herald Sun"") soon after. It was shortly after that Hook started hiding in his cartoons what became his ""trademark""—a fish hook—and looking for the hidden fish hook became a widespread morning pastime amongst readers of ""The Sun News-Pictorial"". Hook first gained international recognition in 1967 for his cartoon about the end of the Six-Day"
"On the Fastrack On the Fastrack is a comic strip drawn by Bill Holbrook about the curious characters employed at the fictional Fastrack, Inc. Launched March 19, 1984, it was initially distributed by King Features Syndicate to 50 newspapers worldwide, later increasing to 75 papers. King Features offers this summary of the strip: For the first 15 years of its publication, the comic was a Sunday only ""gag a week"" comic, with the characters aging very slowly. However, in March 1999, the format changed to a daily strip, usually with a week-long story or related strips, with an unrelated Sunday"
"Feiffer, Ted Koppel and Ben Bradlee as witnesses to Block's life, work and indelible contribution to American satire. Herblock Herbert Lawrence Block, commonly known as Herblock (October13, 1909October7, 2001), was an American editorial cartoonist and author best known for his commentaries on national domestic and foreign policy. During the course of a career stretching into nine decades, he won three Pulitzer Prizes for editorial cartooning (1942, 1954, 1979), shared a fourth Pulitzer Prize in 1973 for Public Service on Watergate, the Presidential Medal of Freedom (1994), the National Cartoonist Society Editorial Cartoon Award in 1957 and 1960, the Reuben Award"
"Herblock Herbert Lawrence Block, commonly known as Herblock (October13, 1909October7, 2001), was an American editorial cartoonist and author best known for his commentaries on national domestic and foreign policy. During the course of a career stretching into nine decades, he won three Pulitzer Prizes for editorial cartooning (1942, 1954, 1979), shared a fourth Pulitzer Prize in 1973 for Public Service on Watergate, the Presidential Medal of Freedom (1994), the National Cartoonist Society Editorial Cartoon Award in 1957 and 1960, the Reuben Award in 1956, the Gold Key Award (the National Cartoonists Society Hall of Fame) in 1979, and numerous other"
"in the Flemish magazine ""Ons Volk Ontwaakt"", but for about a year Piet Fluwijn was the only character. On December 27, 1945 the comic strip was moved to the weekly youth supplement of the magazine ""Ons Volkske"". Sleen then introduced Fluwijn's son, Bolleke, who was still called ""Bommeke"" in those days. From April 3, 1947 on the series was also published in ""'t Kapoentje"", the weekly youth supplement of the newspaper ""Het Volk"", where the character was named """"Bolletje"""". They were also translated into French and published in ""Le Petit Luron"", the weekly youth supplement of the magazine ""Samedi"", under"
"Headlok Headlok is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character first appeared in ""West Coast Avengers"" #10 in July 1986. Headlok first appeared in ""West Coast Avengers"" #10 (July 1986), and was created by Steve Englehart and Al Milgrom. The character subsequently appears in ""Alpha Flight"" #93-96 (February–May 1991), #102-104 (November 1991-January 1992) and ""Thunderbolts"" #55-58 (October 2001-January 2002). Headlok received an entry in the ""Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe Update '89"" #3. This mysterious menace found the Griffin roaming the Adirondack Mountains, and used his mental powers to enslave the Griffin."
"The Phantom The Phantom is an American adventure comic strip, first published by Lee Falk in February 1936. The main character, the Phantom, is a fictional costumed crime-fighter who operates from the fictional African country of Bangalla. The character has been adapted for television, film and video games. The series began with a daily newspaper strip on February 17, 1936, followed by a color Sunday strip on May 28, 1939; both are still running as of . In 1966, King Features stated that ""The Phantom"" was being published in 583 newspapers worldwide. At its peak, the strip was read by"
"Le Chat Le Chat (French for ""the cat"") was a Belgian daily comic strip, created by Philippe Geluck and published in the newspaper ""Le Soir"" from March 22, 1983 until March 23, 2013. During its run it quickly became one of the bestselling Franco-Belgian comics series and the mascot of ""Le Soir"". While virtually an icon in Wallonia he's far less well known in Flanders. ""Le Chat"" is an adult, human-sized obese, anthropomorphic cat who typically wears a suit. He always has the same physical expression. He often comes up with elaborate reasonings which lead to hilariously absurd conclusions e.g."
"the newspaper's entertainment page. A duck, which Bruce named ""Mallard Fillmore,"" was accepted, and made his debut in the paper. Tinsley started sending samples of Mallard Fillmore, then known as ""The Fillmore File"", to newspapers across the country and was eventually picked up by ""The Washington Times"", which began running it in 1992. The strip was later picked up for national syndication by King Features Syndicate, which began distributing it in May 1994. Mallard Fillmore is the main character in the comic strip. He is a seasoned conservative reporter for fictional television station WFDR-TV in Washington, D.C., which hired him"
"Look and Learn Look and Learn was a British weekly educational magazine for children published by Fleetway Publications Ltd from 1962 until 1982. It contained educational text articles that covered a wide variety of topics from volcanoes to the Loch Ness Monster; a long running science fiction comic strip, ""The Trigan Empire""; adaptations of famous works of literature into comic-strip form, such as ""Lorna Doone""; and serialized works of fiction such as ""The First Men in the Moon"". The illustrators who worked on the magazine included Fortunino Matania, John Millar Watt, Peter Jackson, John Worsley, Ron Embleton, Gerry Embleton, C."
"Donald Duck (American comic book) Donald Duck is an American comic book magazine starring the Disney character Donald Duck and published by various publishers since 1952. The first issue was released in November 1952, but the numeration started with #26 because the previous ""Four Color"" issues titled ""Donald Duck"", released between October 1942 (""Four Color"" #9) and September 1952 (""Four Color"" #422), were retroactively treated as part of the series: the numbering was the result of a mistake, as ""Four Color"" #422 was actually the 28th ""Four Color"" issue titled ""Donald Duck"". From 2003 to 2011, the comic was renamed"
"Seattle Liberation Front's brief-lived underground newspaper, ""Sabot"". She moved San Francisco in 1971, where she joined the Air Pirates collective. Flenniken was a marginal contributor to the Air Pirates, and the only member not to be sued for their Disney parodies. Flenniken and London were recruited by Michel Choquette, an editor of ""National Lampoon"", where Flennkin's ""Trots and Bonnie"" appeared from 1972 to 1990. Flenniken was an editor of ""National Lampoon"" from 1979 to 1981, recruited many of the magazine's best-known cartoonists during that time, and co-wrote the screenplay of ""National Lampoon Goes to the Movies"". Flenniken edited ""Seattle Laughs:"
"Independent"" newspapers during the 1950s and 1960s. Also in 1939, the Phantom appeared in Turkey as ""Kizilmaske"", which translates to ""Red Mask"" in Turkish, by publishers Tay Yayinlari. Originally, the publishers colored the hero's costume in red on the covers, and decided to stay with that color throughout the history of the comic in Turkey, rather than use the original purple coloring. Under the name ""Kizilmaske"" and with color covers drawn by Turkish artists, older Lee Falk stories of the Phantom has since appeared in Turkish comic books primarily in black and white. The entire run of the ""Phantom"" newspaper"
"I purchased from Eisner & Iger was 'Espionage' in 1938 for ""Feature Comics"" (then ""Feature Funnies""),"" Arnold recalled in the early 1970s. Other newspaper comic strip characters in ""Feature Funnies"" included the constantly bickering Bungle Family and girl reporter Jane Arden. Arnold changed the title to ""Feature Comics"" beginning with issue number 21. Feature Funnies Feature Funnies was an American comic book magazine published by Comic Favorites, Inc. in the United States for 20 issues from 1937 until 1939. ""Feature Funnies"" cannily mixed color reprints of popular newspaper comic strips like ""Joe Palooka"", ""Mickey Finn"" and ""Dixie Dugan"" with a"
"Croc (magazine) Croc was a French-language humour magazine published monthly in Montreal, Quebec, Canada from 1979 until 1995. ""Croc"" (""Fang"" in French) was begun in October 1979 by Jacques Hurtubise, Hélène Fleury, and Roch Côté, with the help of an $80,000 grant from the ""ministère des Affaires culturelles du Québec"" (""Québec Ministry of Cultural Affairs""). It printed the work of many leading cartoonists of the era, many of whom were able to launch their careers through the magazine's help, including animator Claude Cloutier. ""Croc"" begat another magazine, ""Titanic"", dedicated entirely to comics. Croc's publishers briefly distributed a localised edition of"
"know but we promise to look into it."" The comic strip first appeared in 1948 and ran daily for 40 years—on the back page of Politiken until 1955, then in the Berlingske Tidende newspaper until 1988. The text was written by Hast until retired from the strip in 1973, after which it was written by a variety of writers. Engholm drew the strip until his death in 1988. ""Father of Four"" was such an enormous success that a sequel ""Father of Four in the Snow"" (""Far til fire i sneen"") was quickly made and released in 1954. Thereafter, seven more"
"(issue number 1,354, series 2, dated April–June 1962) was based upon the TV series ""Calvin and the Colonel"". The primary purpose behind ""Four Color"" was as a try-out showcase for potential new Dell Comics series. For example, Tarzan and Little Lulu in early 1948 launched their own titles (starting with no. 1) after proving themselves via a number of Four Color try-out issues. However, during the 1940s, the transition was not always so prompt, as a number of prominent funny animal characters starred in 20–30 issues of Four Color (these include Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and Porky Pig). Comic book"
"misunderstood. As of 1 May 2009, Fokke & Sukke have also started a career in German, appearing daily on the German news website DNews as 'Fokke & Sokke'. Fokke & Sukke Fokke & Sukke is a Dutch comic strip created by writer and illustrator Jean-Marc van Tol, and writers John Reid and Bastiaan Geleijnse. The strip is published in the daily newspaper ""NRC Handelsblad"". ""Fokke & Sukke"" first appeared in December 1993, in the student magazine ""Propria Cures."" The one-panel comic, usually featuring humor of a politically incorrect nature, became very popular in the Netherlands. The strip has appeared in"
"Robert Maxwell took ""Flook"" to the ""Daily Mirror"", from where it transferred briefly to the ""Sunday Mirror"" before being dropped completely. Fawkes also produced political cartoons for ""The Spectator"" with George Melly as his author. The two also contributed occasionally to ""Private Eye"" and, beginning in 1962, the ""New Statesman"". Despite producing larger political cartoons for the ""Daily Mail"", his future role as Illingworth's successor as lead cartoonist was threatened by the paper's preference for the work of Gerald Scarfe. Fawkes therefore began submitting work to other publications, and he began contributing political cartoons to ""The Observer"". At ""The Observer"""
"with a wryly philosophical point: 1939 also saw the publication of ""The Strange Flight of Richard Clayton"" (""Amazing Stories,"" August) and ""The Cloak"" (""Unknown,"" March). 1941 saw the appearance of the tale ""A Good Knight's Work"" in ""Unknown Worlds"" (Oct). Shortly thereafter, Bloch created the Damon Runyan-esque humorous series character Lefty Feep in the story ""Time Wounds All Heels"" ""Fantastic Adventures"" (April 1942). Around the same time, he began work as an advertising copywriter at the Gustav Marx Advertising Agency, a position he held until 1953. Marx allowed Bloch to write stories in the office in quiet times. Bloch published"
"""Four Color Comics"" banner. The issue numbers are 375, 437, and 488, and were released in 1952-1953. Gold Key Comics would reprint them as three issues in 1964, numbering one through three, but reprinted them out of order. Dark Horse Comics in 2010 reprinted the comics in a hard back archive edition. John Carter appeared in DC Comics' ""Tarzan"" comics #207-209, then ""Weird Worlds"" #1-7 and ""Tarzan Family"" 62-64 in the early 1970s. There was also a four-issue mini-series cross-over in 1996 with another of Burroughs' characters, Tarzan, in ""Tarzan/John Carter: Warlords of Mars"" from Dark Horse Comics. Starting in"
"Jack Flash Jack Flash was a British comic strip published in the British comic book magazine ""The Beano"". The strip starred a flying boy from the planet Mercury. The character sported four tiny wings on his ankles and this is thought to be the source of his flying ability. The strips first series began in 1949 in issue 355. This first series was originally drawn by Dudley Watkins but in issue 367 Fred Sturrock took over drawing the strip. This first series was set in the fictional Cornish town of Colbay. This first series ended in 1949 in issue 388."
"Bystander"" took over, replacing Alan John Bott. The Graphic The Graphic was a British weekly illustrated newspaper, first published on 4 December 1869 by William Luson Thomas's company Illustrated Newspapers Limited. The influence of ""The Graphic"" within the art world was immense, its many admirers included Vincent van Gogh, and Hubert von Herkomer. It continued to be published weekly under this title until 23 April 1932 and then changed title to ""The National Graphic"" between 28 April and 14 July 1932; it then ceased publication, after 3,266 issues. From 1890 until 1926, Luson Thomas's company, H. R. Baines and Co."
"the 1930s and 1940s precursor of Marvel Comics, from 1942 through 1952. The strip was characterized by alliterative, rhyming dialogue, screwball comedy and throwaway gags in background. The Timely titles, such as ""Joker Comics"", ""Gay Comics"" and ""Tessie the Typist"", debuted a number of his spin-off characters and features, including Flap Flipflop, The Flying Flash (who later appeared in Charlton Comics' ""Jack in the Box"" #13), Leanbean Green, ""Cartoon Crime Mystery"" featuring Inspector Hector the Crime Detector, Doc Rockblock, ""Picture Poems about Peculiar People"", ""Funny Boners"", Dauntless Dawson, ""Hothead Hotel"", ""Bedtime Bunk"", ""Foolish Faces"" and more. Five issues of a"
"Mallard Fillmore Mallard Fillmore is a comic strip written and illustrated by Bruce Tinsley that has been syndicated by King Features Syndicate since June 6, 1994. The strip follows the exploits of its title character, an anthropomorphic green-plumaged duck who works as a politically conservative reporter at fictional television station WFDR in Washington, D.C. Mallard's name is a pun on the name of the 13th president of the United States, Millard Fillmore. In 1991, Bruce Tinsley, who was an editorial cartoonist for the Charlottesville, Virginia paper ""The Daily Progress"", was asked to create a cartoon character as a mascot for"
"in 1956 by the Israeli cartoonist Kariel Gardosh, known by his pen name ""Dosh."" The cartoon appeared for many years in the newspaper ""Maariv"". Yosef Lapid, Dosh's colleague on the editorial board of Maariv, described Srulik as an icon of Israel in the same way that Marianne and Uncle Sam were respectively icons of France and the United States. Srulik is a common nickname for ""Yisrael"" (Israel). Srulik is generally depicted as a young man wearing a tembel hat, Biblical sandals, and khaki shorts. Srulik is a pioneering Zionist, a lover of the land of Israel and its soil, a"
"very well during its heydays. Ons Volkske Ons Volkske (literally: ""Our little people"") was the youth supplement of the Flemish newspaper ""Ons Volk Ontwaakt"". It was published without interruption from 1932 until 1988, except for the years during World War Two. The magazine was notable for its comics and together with ""'t Kapoentje"" it was the most important comic book magazine in Flanders. On September 25, 1932, the first issue of ""Ons Volkske"" was published by n.v. Periodica. All comics in the magazine were drawn by Eugeen Hermans, aka ""Pink"", except for ""Adamson"" by Danish cartoonist Oscar Jacobsson. During the"
"Nick Knatterton Nick Knatterton is the name of a West German comic strip and the name of its main character, a private detective. The strip was drawn by (1913–1999) from 1950 to 1959. It was initially released in the German magazine Quick. The visual style of the comics is cartoony, but still realistic enough for the comic to be taken as a (at least mostly) serious detective comic. It is characterised by its unique style of humour, most of which derives from allusions to current political affairs in the Federal Republic of Germany of the 1950s. The name Nick Knatterton"
"26, 1941, it ran on the front covers of Hearst's ""American Weekly"" newspaper magazine supplement, continuing until March 30 of that year. Between 1939 and 1943, four different stories featuring Flossy appeared on ""American Weekly"" covers. Sunday comics sections employed offset color printing with multiple print runs imitating a wide range of colors. Printing plates were created with four or more colors—traditionally, the CMYK color model: cyan, magenta, yellow and ""K"" for black. With a screen of tiny dots on each printing plate, the dots allowed an image to be printed in a halftone that appears to the eye in"
"Fontaine Fox Fontaine Talbot Fox, Jr. (June 4, 1884 – August 9, 1964) was an American cartoonist and illustrator best known for writing and illustrating his ""Toonerville Folks"" comic panel, which ran from 1913 to 1955 in 250 to 300 newspapers across North America. The cartoons are set in the small town of Toonerville, which appears to operate in its own little universe. The gentle humor of the feature dealt with the antics of the various denizens and featured semi-realistic situations. It was one of the most popular comics during the World War I era. Born near Louisville, Kentucky, Fox"