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Playhour
''Playhour'' was a British children's comics magazine published by Amalgamated Press/Fleetway/IPC between 16 October 1954 and 15 August 1987, a run of approximately 1,700 weekly issues. ''Playhour'' contained a mixture of original tales for young children and adaptations of well-known fairy tales (drawn by Nadir Quinto, Ron Embleton, Jesus Blasco and others). Publication history Originally published under the title ''Playhour Pictures'', it was intended as a companion to '' Jack and Jill'', initially aimed at a slightly older audience. The lead strip in its early days was ''Prince, the Wonder Dog of the Golden West'', drawn by Sep E. Scott. With issue #32 (21 May 1955), the title of the publication was shortened to ''Playhour'' and it lowered its target age-group, introducing comic strips based on A. A. Milne's ''Winnie-the-Pooh'' and Kenneth Grahame's ''The Wind in the Willows'', both drawn by Peter Woolcock. 1956 saw the arrival of ''Sonny and Sally of Happy Valley'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amalgamated Press
The Amalgamated Press (AP) was a British newspaper and magazine publishing company founded by journalist and entrepreneur Alfred Harmsworth (1865–1922) in 1901, gathering his many publishing ventures together under one banner. At one point the largest publishing company in the world, AP employed writers such as Arthur Mee, John Alexander Hammerton, Edwy Searles Brooks, and Charles Hamilton (writer), Charles Hamilton. Its subsidiary, the Educational Book Company, published ''The Harmsworth Self-Educator'', ''The Children's Encyclopædia'', and ''Harmsworth's Universal Encyclopaedia''. The company's newspapers included the ''Daily Mail'', the ''Daily Mirror'', ''The Evening News (London newspaper), The Evening News'', ''The Observer'', and ''The Times''. At its height, AP published over 70 magazines and operated three large printing works and paper mills in South London. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ron Embleton
Ronald Sydney Embleton (6 October 1930 – 13 February 1988) was a British illustrator who gained fame as a comics artist. In the 1950s and 1960s, Embleton also pursued a career as an oil painter, and he exhibited his works widely in Britain, Germany, Australia, Canada and the USA. He was a member of the London Sketch Club and the National Society of Painters, Sculptors and Printmakers, and in 1960 was elected a member of the Royal Institute of Oil Painters. Following Embleton's death at age 57, his obituary in ''The Times'' described him as "responsible for some of the finest full-colour adventure series in modern British comics ... a grandmaster of his art." David Ashford and Norman Wright, writing in ''Book and Magazine Collector'' (March 2002), note that "his work for such diverse periodicals as '' Express Weekly'', ''TV Century 21'', ''Princess'', ''Boys' World'', and ''Look and Learn'' have earned him the respect of every practitioner in the field and the gratitude of all o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Virginio Livraghi
Virginio Livraghi is an Italian comic strip artist and illustrator who worked for the British nursery comics '' Playhour'' and ''Once Upon a Time''. Books Illustrated by Virginio Livraghi in English * Alice in Wonderland ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'' (also known as ''Alice in Wonderland'') is an 1865 English Children's literature, children's novel by Lewis Carroll, a mathematics university don, don at the University of Oxford. It details the story of a ..., retold by Jane Carruth (London, Odhams, 1963) * Curly the Pig, by Maria Pia Pezzi (New York, Golden Press, 1967) * Brer Rabbit, by Barbara Hayes (Vero Beach, Fla., Rourke Enterprises, 1984; ) References Italian comics artists 20th-century Italian illustrators Italian magazine illustrators Italian children's book illustrators Living people Year of birth missing (living people) {{Europe-comics-creator-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Seabright
Henry Seabright was a magazine and children's book illustrator who contributed to '' The Strand'' and the ''Reader's Digest Condensed Books'' series. Seabright also contributed to ''The Bible Story'' and the comic ''Playhour'' where he drew a comic strip adaptation of E. Nesbit's novel ''Five Children and It ''Five Children and It'' is a fantasy children's novel by English people, English author E. Nesbit. It was originally published in 1902 in the ''Strand Magazine'' under the general title ''The Psammead, or the Gifts'', with a segment appearing ...''. External links Look and Learn website search for Henry Seabright British comics artists Possibly living people Year of birth missing Place of birth missing {{UK-comics-creator-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rene Cloke
Rene Mable Neighbor Cloke (4 October 1904 – 1 October 1995) was a British illustrator and watercolorist best known for her prolific output of artwork for children's books and greeting cards. Her work often displayed a whimsical quality, with frequent subjects being flora and fauna, pixies, fairies, sprites, and elves. Life and career Born in Plymouth, England in 1904, Cloke never trained formally as an artist and was largely self taught. She was the older sister of concert pianist Olive Cloke. Their father was a bank manager. She began her career as an illustrator in the 1920s with W. R. Chambers Publishers. Her first work of note for that publisher was as the artist for ''The Radiant Way'' children's book series. She continued to illustrate children's books for the next seven decades, working for most major publishers in the United Kingdom. Some of the books she illustrated include, '' Alice in Wonderland'', ''Red Riding Hood Goes to the Teddy-Bear's Picnic'', ''Joy Bells'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Matthew Talintyre
Henry Matthew Talintyre (1893–1962) was a British comic strip artist, best known for drawing the elephant character Uncle Oojah for Flo Lancaster's comic series that later became ''The Wonderful Adventures of Jerry, Don and Snooker''. Biography Talintyre was born in Gateshead, Durham in 1893. He served in World War I, then moved to London in the 1920s. He later drew nursery comics for DC Thomson and lived in Dundee, where he lodged in a boarding house with the father of cartoonist Dave Gibbons. Gibbons would later describe him as "something of a bohemian type... very unlike a customs officer." His son, Douglas, recalled that Talintyre and his fellow artists were frustrated by DC Thompson's management style, even smashing a clocking-in machine the company introduced. Talintyre took over the Oojah comic series after the death of its previous illustrator, Thomas Maybank. The strip ran in ''Playhour'', ''Pictures'' and ''Jack and Jill''. This version of the comic renamed ''The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eric Stephens (comics)
Eric Stephens (1909–2001) was a British comic strip artist An artist is a person engaged in an activity related to creating art, practicing the arts, or demonstrating the work of art. The most common usage (in both everyday speech and academic discourse) refers to a practitioner in the visual arts o ... who contributed to '' Jack and Jill'', drawing episodes of the cover strip 'Jack and Jill of Buttercup Farm' and colouring several center-spread features such as 'There Was An Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe' and 'Our Village'. Stephens also contributed episodes of 'Sonny and Sally' to '' Playhour'' and 'Paddington Park' to ''Bonnie''. Though trained as a lithographer, his talent as a draughtsman soon led him into advertising work. After serving in the RAF during the second world war, he became a stationery designer. It was at this time that Stephens became friends with the artist Hugh McNeill, who persuaded him to follow a career as a free-lance artist in children's comics. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nadir Quinto
The nadir is the direction pointing directly ''below'' a particular location; that is, it is one of two vertical directions at a specified location, orthogonal to a horizontal flat surface. The direction opposite of the nadir is the zenith. Etymology Although it entered English via other European languages, the word “nadir” is ultimately an Arabic loanword. It comes from the Arabic word “nazir”, meaning “opposite to”. More specifically, it originated from the Arabic phrase “nazir as-samt”, meaning “ heopposite direction”. Hebrew (whether ancient or modern) is a related language to Arabic, as they are both Semitic languages. Hebrew also has a word “nadir” (נדיר), but with a somewhat different meaning: it is an adjective meaning “rare”. However, the same word also has a specialized usage to match its meaning in other languages like English. Definitions Space science Since the concept of ''being below'' is itself somewhat vague, scientists define ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gordon Hutchings
Gordon may refer to: People * Gordon (given name), a masculine given name, including list of persons and fictional characters * Gordon (surname), the surname * Gordon (slave), escaped to a Union Army camp during the U.S. Civil War * Gordon Heuckeroth (born 1968), Dutch performer and radio and television personality, known professionally by the mononym Gordon * Clan Gordon, a Scottish clan Education * Gordon State College, a public college in Barnesville, Georgia * Gordon College (Massachusetts), a Christian college in Wenham, Massachusetts * Gordon College (Pakistan), a Christian college in Rawalpindi, Pakistan * Gordon College (Philippines), a public university in Subic, Zambales * Gordon College of Education, a public college in Haifa, Israel Places Australia * Gordon, Australian Capital Territory * Gordon, New South Wales * Gordon, South Australia * Gordon, Victoria * Gordon River, Tasmania * Gordon River (Western Australia) Canada * Gordon Parish, New Brunswick * Gordon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jesus Blasco
Jesus (AD 30 or 33), also referred to as Jesus Christ, Jesus of Nazareth, and many Names and titles of Jesus in the New Testament, other names and titles, was a 1st-century Jewish preacher and religious leader. He is the Jesus in Christianity, central figure of Christianity, the Major religious groups, world's largest religion. Most Christians consider Jesus to be the Incarnation (Christianity), incarnation of God the Son and awaited Messiah#Christianity, messiah, or Christ (title), Christ, a descendant from the Davidic line that is prophesied in the Old Testament. Virtually all modern scholars of classical antiquity, antiquity agree that Historicity of Jesus, Jesus existed historically. Accounts of Life of Jesus, Jesus's life are contained in the Gospels, especially the four canonical Gospels in the New Testament. Since the Age of Enlightenment, Enlightenment, Quest for the historical Jesus, academic research has yielded various views on the historical reliability of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Baker (comic Artist)
Arthur Baker may refer to: * Arthur Baker (calligrapher) (c. 1930–2016), American calligrapher and typeface designer * Arthur Baker (producer) (born 1955), American record producer and DJ * Arthur Slade Baker (1863–1943), British Army officer * Arthur Baker, character in '' The Long Walk'' * Arthur Baker (discus thrower), American discus thrower, 3rd at the 1926 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships The 1926 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships were organized by the Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) and served as the national championships in outdoor track and field for the United States. The men's edition was held at Municipal Stadium in ... See also * Art Baker (other) {{DEFAULTSORT:Baker, Arthur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leslie Branton
Leslie may refer to: * Leslie (name), a name and list of people with the given name or surname, including fictional characters Families * Clan Leslie, a Scottish clan with the motto "grip fast" * Leslie (Russian nobility), a Russian noble family of Scottish origin Places Canada * Leslie, Saskatchewan * Leslie Street, a road in Toronto and York Region, Ontario ** Leslie (TTC), a subway station ** Leslie Street Spit, an artificial spit in Toronto United States *Leslie, Arkansas *Leslie, Georgia *Leslie, Michigan *Leslie, Missouri *Leslie, West Virginia *Leslie, Wisconsin *Leslie Township, Michigan *Leslie Township, Minnesota Elsewhere * Leslie Dam, a dam in Warwick, Queensland, Australia * Leslie, Mpumalanga, South Africa * Leslie, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, see List of listed buildings in Leslie, Aberdeenshire * Leslie, Fife, Scotland, UK Other uses * Leslie speaker system * Leslie Motor Car company * Leslie Controls, Inc. * Leslie (singer) (born 1985), French singer * L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
