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Bill Ritchie (basketball)
Bill Ritchie (1 August 1931 – 25 January 2010) was a Scottish cartoonist. He is known for work on comics published by D. C. Thomson. Biography Born in Glasgow, Ritchie attended the Glasgow School of Art, where he learnt little about cartoons or comics; instead, he taught himself by practising from local comics artists Jack Lindsay, Bud Neill, Jimmy Malcolm, Harry Smith and Bill Tait. It was Malcolm who suggested he try to draw comics for D. C. Thomson in Dundee. While serving in the army in Korea, he submitted his first cartoons to the publisher, which were printed in ''The Weekly News''. His first comic strip was '' Clumsy Claude'' in ''The Beano'', and for many years he drew '' Baby Crockett'' in the ''Beezer''. Between 1957 and 1964 Ritchie drew the illustrations for "The Glad Mag" an annual magazine produced by students of Queen's College, Dundee as part of their charities campaign. Copies of these magazines are held by University of Dundee Archive Services. After hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glasgow
Glasgow is the Cities of Scotland, most populous city in Scotland, located on the banks of the River Clyde in Strathclyde, west central Scotland. It is the List of cities in the United Kingdom, third-most-populous city in the United Kingdom and the 27th-most-populous city in Europe, and comprises Wards of Glasgow, 23 wards which represent the areas of the city within Glasgow City Council. Glasgow is a leading city in Scotland for finance, shopping, industry, culture and fashion, and was commonly referred to as the "second city of the British Empire" for much of the Victorian era, Victorian and Edwardian eras. In , it had an estimated population as a defined locality of . More than 1,000,000 people live in the Greater Glasgow contiguous urban area, while the wider Glasgow City Region is home to more than 1,800,000 people (its defined functional urban area total was almost the same in 2020), around a third of Scotland's population. The city has a population density of 3,562 p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sparky (comic)
''Sparky'' was a British comic published weekly by D. C. Thomson & Co. Ltd, DC Thomson, that ran from (issue dates) 23 January 1965 to 9 July 1977 when it merged with ''The Topper (comics), The Topper'' after 652 issues. From 1965–1980 the comic published an comic annual, annual entitled ''The Sparky Book (annual), The Sparky Book''. It was a D. C. Thomson & Co. Ltd, DC Thomson comic, originally aimed at a slightly younger audience to ''The Beano'' and ''The Dandy'' later it was aimed at the same audience. It changed its name to ''The Sparky Comic'' in 1973. List of comic strips Strips which featured in ''Sparky'' at some point during the course of its 12-year run included. All numbers refer to issues of ''Sparky''. List of ''Sparky'' adventure Strips As well as featuring comic strips ''Sparky'' featured adventure strips, though fewer and fewer of these appeared later in the comic's life. See also *List of DC Thomson Publications References *Smith, AlaThe Sparky File ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2010 Deaths
This is a list of lists of deaths of notable people, organized by year. New deaths articles are added to their respective month (e.g., Deaths in ) and then linked below. 2025 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994 1993 1992 1991 1990 1989 1988 1987 1986 Earlier years ''Deaths in years earlier than this can usually be found in the main articles of the years.'' See also * Lists of deaths by day * Deaths by year (category) {{DEFAULTSORT:deaths by year ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1931 Births
Events January * January 2 – South Dakota native Ernest Lawrence invents the cyclotron, used to accelerate particles to study nuclear physics. * January 4 – German pilot Elly Beinhorn begins her flight to Africa. * January 22 – Sir Isaac Isaacs is sworn in as the first Australian-born Governor-General of Australia. * January 25 – Mohandas Gandhi is again released from imprisonment in India. * January 27 – Pierre Laval forms a government in France. * January 30 – Charlie Chaplin comedy drama film ''City Lights'' receives its public premiere at the Los Angeles Theater with Albert Einstein as guest of honor. Contrary to the current trend in cinema, it is a silent film, but with a score by Chaplin. Critically and commercially successful from the start, it will place consistently in lists of films considered the best of all time. February * February 4 – Soviet leader Joseph Stalin gives a speech calling for rapid industrialization, arguing that only strong indus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Courier (Dundee)
''The Courier'' (known as ''The Courier & Advertiser'' between 1926 and 2012) is a newspaper published by DC Thomson in Dundee, Scotland. As of 2013, it is printed in six regional editions: Dundee, Angus & The Mearns, Fife, West Fife, Perthshire, and Stirlingshire. However, by 2020 this had been reduced to three regional editions for Perth and Perthshire; Angus and Dundee; and Fife. In the months July to December 2024, the average daily circulation of the Courier was 17,737, a minor increase from 2023 although significantly down from the 30,179 copies sold in December 2019. History Established in 1801 as the ''Dundee Courier & Argus'', the entire front page of ''The Courier'' used to contain classified advertisements – a traditional newspaper format for many years. In 1809 it was taken over by Robert Rintoul who used the paper to campaign for political reform, and criticism of local politicians such as Alexander Riddoch. In 1926, during the General Strike ''The Courier ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Denis Gifford
Denis Gifford (26 December 1927 – 18 May 2000)Holland, Steve, Obituaries: Denis Gifford', ''The Guardian'', 26 May 2000. was a British writer, broadcaster, journalist, comic artist and historian of film, comics, television and radio. In his lengthy career, he wrote and drew for British comics; wrote more than fifty books on the creators, performers, characters and history of popular media; devised, compiled and contributed to popular programmes for radio and television; and directed several short films. Gifford was also a major comics collector, owning what was perhaps the largest collection of British comics in the world. Gifford's work in the history of film and comics, particularly in Britain, provided an account of the work in those media of previously unattempted scope, discovering countless lost films and titles and identifying numerous uncredited creators. He was particularly interested in the early stages in film and comics history, for which records were scarce an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Psychopia
''Psychopia'' is a small press zine featuring reviews and articles on British comic books and small press comics and interviews with cartoonists. Unusually for comix zines it focussed almost entirely on British comics such as ''The Beano'' and ''The Dandy'' ignoring American superhero comics. History and profile Issue #0 was the first published in 1994. ''Psychopia'' was created by cartoonist/writer B. Patston. The fanzine evolved out of his small press comic ''Oy Mister!!'' published in 1992. Like ''Escape Magazine'' it printed comic strips. Patston drew comics in his bedroom in Linslade typing up articles on his manual typewriter. He pasted up the final pages on his card table. The zine had a very downbeat amateurish look to it due to the underground sensibilities of the editor. The misspelling Psycopia for the magazine originated with the reputation for text mangling, technical typesetting failures and typographical errors, and once misspelled its own name on the cover as " ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bunty
''Bunty'' was a British comics, British comic for girls published by D. C. Thomson & Co. from 1958 to 2001.Gibson (2003)p. 91/ref> It consisted of a collection of many small strips, the stories typically being three to five pages long. In contrast to earlier and contemporary comics, it was aimed primarily at working-class readers under the age of 14, and contained mostly fictional stories.Gibson (2003), pp. 91–92 Well-known regular strips from ''Bunty'' include ''The Four Marys'', ''Bunty — A Girl Like You'', ''Moira Kent'', ''Lorna Drake'', ''Luv, Lisa'', ''The Comp'', and ''Penny's Place''. Publication history ''Bunty'' debuted with the 18 January 1958 issue. Over the course of its history, Bunty absorbed three other DC Thomson girls' comics: ''Suzy'' (1987), ''Nikki (DC Thomson), Nikki for Girls'' (May 1989), and ''Mandy (comics), Mandy & Judy'' [''M & J''] (1997). With the issue of 28 March 1992 (issue #1785), ''Bunty'' covers switched from illustrated comics-style ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sweet Sue (comic Strip)
''The Beano'' is a British anthology comic magazine created by Scottish publishing company DC Thomson. ''The Beano'' has featured comedic strips, adventure strips, and prose stories. Prose stories were, however, phased out in 1955 and adventure strips were phased out in 1975 – the last one being '' General Jumbo''. The longest-running strip in ''The Beano'', originally titled '' Dennis the Menace'' (currently titled ''Dennis and Gnasher''), first appeared in 1951. Other long-running characters and series include ''Biffo the Bear'', ''Minnie the Minx'', ''Roger the Dodger'', ''The Bash Street Kids'', ''Little Plum'' and ''Billy Whizz''. As of 2015, ''The Beano'' had been home to 371 different strips (with a further 17 strips appearing in Comic Idol competitions, but not in any later comics). This list only features strips in the weekly comic, and does not list strips that only appeared once. It also includes the Comic Idol winners from 1995 to 2010. Comic strips Source: Fu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Plug (comic)
''Plug'' was a British comic magazine that ran for 75 issues from 24 September 1977 until 24 February 1979, when it merged with ''The Beezer''. It was edited by Ian Gray.Paul Gravett"Obituary: Ian Gray" ''The Guardian'', 20 September 2007 A spin-off from ''The Bash Street Kids'' comic strip in ''The Beano'', the comic was based on the character Plug who was a distinctively ugly member of the Bash Street Kids. His dog (Pug) from ''Pup Parade'', and a new character called ''Chunkee the Monkey'' (Plug's pet monkey) accompanied him. Vic Neill mainly drew the title character's strip. The comic also had its own fan club, the ''Plug Sports and Social Club''. The comic was inspired in part by '' Mad''. The ''Plug'' comic was never a big hit, possibly because, at 9 pence, it was too expensive compared to other D. C. Thomson comics at the time, which were priced at around 5 pence. According to the 2008 book ''The History of the Beano'', for a while there were rumours of a "curse of ''P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Supporting Life
Support may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media * Supporting character * Support (art), a solid surface upon which a painting is executed Business and finance * Support (technical analysis) * Child support * Customer support * Income Support Construction * Support (structure), or lateral support, a type of structural support to help prevent sideways movement * Structural support, architectural components that include arches, beams, columns, balconies, and stretchers Law and politics * Advocacy, in politics, support for constituencies, issues, or legislation * Lateral and subjacent support, a legal term Mathematics Mathematics (generally) * Support (mathematics), subset of the domain of a function where it is non-zero valued * Support (measure theory), a subset of a measurable space * Supporting hyperplane, sometimes referred to as support * Support of a module, a set of prime ideals in commutative algebra Statistics * Support, the natural logarithm of the li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
