The other day I received a copy the Beano No. 1257 dated 20th August, 1966 with another story of The Bash Street Kids visiting the Beano printing works. I like strips in which characters are self-conscious of their fictitious nature and especially the ones involving play with colours (you can read another one like this HERE).
Very surreal...
ReplyDeleteI seem to recall a trip to the printing presses where it was commented that Little Plum had got bigger, and the explanation was given that strips are drawn big to start with. Any sign of that strip? Why did they make so many trips? Did the kids have memory trouble? One suspects that readers of different generations wrote in over the years asking how the Beano was made; the kids might not have aged or changed, but readers did. I’m 41 on Thurs…
ReplyDelete... Or maybe it was simply a fun theme for a strip?
DeleteYou may have seen that other printing presses episode of The Bash Street Kids on my blog here: http://kazoop.blogspot.de/2013/08/the-bash-street-kids-learn-how-comics.html
Congrats on your forthcoming birthday!
Or it could have been that the scriptwriters were running out of new ideas. I have to be honest and say that I'm not too keen on strips where the characters are aware of their comic strip status.
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