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Freelance author and editor for the past 30 years. My interests are old British comics, books and magazines... and that's what you'll find here.
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Saturday, October 14, 2006

Agnes Booth

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Another day, another author... Agnes Booth -- Agnes Clara Booth, to give her full name -- lived in West Worthing, Sussex, after the war. She...
Friday, October 13, 2006

Kathleen Binns

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More from the archaeological diggings surrounding the Swift Annual ... Kathleen Binns appeared in Swift Annual 5 and 7 (1958, 1960). No cl...
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Thursday, October 12, 2006

Comic Clippings - 12 October

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No internet most of yesterday and no internet most of today. Amazing how much actual work you can get done when all the distractions disappe...

Christine Bernard

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Your Swift Annual author of the day... Christine Bernard I expected to find information on fairly easily because she edited a whole host ...
Wednesday, October 11, 2006

Dilys Beeston

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A very brief one... Dilys Beeston, contributed to Swift Annual 4, 5 and 6 (1957-59), Robin Annual 6 (1958) and wrote three books for ch...
Tuesday, October 10, 2006

Frank Baker

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Today's Swift Annual author... Frank Baker contributed anonymously to Swift Annual 3 (1956). No idea what he wrote but maybe someone ...

Rowan Ayers

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Another contributor to Swift Annual 1 (1954). No idea what he might have written but I have dug up a small heap of information. Ayers was ...
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Monday, October 09, 2006

Jack Borg

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More delvings into the Swift Annual ... Jack Borg is credited with writing material for the first two Swift Annual s and, although all the s...
Sunday, October 08, 2006

Comic Clippings - 8 October

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Just a few brief notes tonight as I've spent all day in front of the computer and it's about time I switched screens and watched the...
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Ronald Welch (Ronald Oliver Felton)

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The digging I've been doing over the past couple of days has rammed home once again the fact that here, in the UK, we seem to have had a...
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Random Notes on Look & Learn Artists 2

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More artists who contributed to Look and Learn and related titles about whom I know very little. Leonard (G.) Appleby (1929- ). Born in Ki...
Friday, October 06, 2006

Barbara Wace

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A couple of weeks ago I mentioned a strip about a lass called 'Sue Carter' as possibly being written by Betty Roland . I now think t...
Tuesday, October 03, 2006

Comic Clippings - 3 October 2006

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Monday was radio day for me as I was doing interviews with Radio Newcastle, Radio Cumbria, Radio Swindon and Radio Wiltshire and, nearly, Ra...
Thursday, September 28, 2006

Random Notes on Look & Learn Artists

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For the past eighteen months or so I've been jotting down notes on the many, many artists who helped make Look and Learn one of the fin...
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