Below
are the remaining two installments of the “Mini Sub” story of Jonah by Ken Reid
which ran in the Beano Nos. 985-988. This time I’ll show them exactly as they
were printed in June 1961 because as you have seen in the two previous posts,
those reprints in Buddy in the eighties were rather awful.
(Remember to click on the images to see them even larger)
All
Images 2015 © DC Thomson, Ltd.
Lovely stuff. Today's comics are all the poorer for not having an artist of Reid's calibre contributing to them.
ReplyDeleteWell, different times have their own heroes and outstanding talents like Ken, Leo Baxendale, Robert Nixon, etc., don’t come by very often.
ReplyDeleteWhat I find striking about those Jonah stories is that they are aimed at a grown-up audience rather than kids who were supposed to be reading The Beano. Would an average young reader have fully appreciated the humour of Jonah back in the day? I somehow doubt it…
The visual humour would've appealed to them 'though. Maybe that's the answer to today's low sales. Pitch the stories at a slightly older readership, and let the kids appreciate the funny pictures. Okay, that's too simplistic - but something along those lines.
DeleteThinking it over, Odhams' Queen Of The Seas strip had the same kind of humour, but I don't recall ever regarding them as over my head when I first read the strips as a 7 or 8 year old. However, I do have a mighty brain, so maybe that explains it. (He said, tongue half in cheek.)
Deletebrilliant over the topness...just mad But in a good way!!
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