[Andrew999]

Those of us who have thrilled to the adventures of Capitan Trueno / Captain Thunder on this site might be interested to know there was a fairly decent movie made in 2012 that slipped beneath most people's radar:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUv59pPKG9E

For more on the intrepid captain:

https://comicvine.gamespot.com/el-capitan-trueno/4005-78464/

Or read the original here:

https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=23266

[paw broon]

Haven't seen the movie. I'll be able to now.  Thank you.
I'm a big fan of the good Captain.  There are a lot of collections available, as well as the original and facsimile comics.  The whole history of Spanish comics is absolutely intriguing - a really big industry. 
I'd also recommend, El Guerrero del Antifaz which came out before Capitan Trueno and, I think, sold even more copies at its height.
Actually, there are a number of knights, Norsemen, fictional historical heroes in comics.  Not only, The Viking Prince; Prince Valiant and The Black Knight, but Eric de Noorman; the 2 mentioned above; El Defensor de La Cruz; De Rode Ridder - which is another really long running Dutch series, continuing to be published today; not forgetting internationally versions of Robin Hood and the British Marco Del Monte; Buccaneers; William Tell etc. I wonder if some research is needed as a lot of these comics are great entertainment.

[Andrew999]

There's a PhD there for someone who wants to pull that together into a book. (Any East Anglia Comic Book Studies Masters students out there?)

One of my favourites is Dago by that amazing Australian writer Robin Wood - the art is fantastic and the stories set amidst real events fascinating and educational without infringing on the action and adventure:


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dago_(comics)

https://comicvine.gamespot.com/dago-ristampa/4050-36171/

https://www.lambiek.net/artists/w/wood_robin.htm

[The Australian Panther]

Thanks for bringing Robin Wood to my attention, but he is not Australian. He is of Australian origin.

Robin Wood is one of the most prolific South American comic writers. He was born in New Australia, Paraguay, into a family of Australian immigrants of mainly Irish and Scottish origins.

 
New Australian is an interesting story of a group of people who left Australia about 100 years ago with the idea of setting up 'New Australia' a paradise community in Paraguay over 100 years ago.
Australia?s bizarre socialist colony in Paraguay
https://www.news.com.au/travel/destinations/south-america/australias-bizarre-socialist-colony-failed-after-just-two-years/news-story/76ac000382c73aa371d01f82a09bb761

Within months, there was trouble in paradise. ?What were they supposed to do? Now you dump a bunch of Scots, Irishmen, [and] Australians in the land of the sugar cane,? descendant Robin Wood told the ABC. ?Christ, I bet that they didn?t take off their shoes and they were already making moonshine.? 

Cheers!

[Andrew999]

Fascinating - I'd never heard of New Australia - but I am interested in alternative communities.

I don't mean those hippie-style artist-type communities that spring up and die as soon as the going gets tough - but communities that are more sustainable and have alternative measures for economic wellbeing other than GDP.

There's one close to where I live:

https://www.bruderhof.com/en/where-we-are/united-kingdom/darvell

I'm not keen or interested in the religious element to this but I've been watching the economics of how they survive and interact with the wider community with some fascination. There are other elements too like how would the community defend itself if the Government chose to close them down?

[Captain Audio]

South America played host to numerous colonies in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
There was, and possibly still is , a Confederate states colony there, peopled by descendants of die hard confederate veterans. There were many Japanese colonials there as well.

[Robb_K]

South America played host to numerous colonies in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
There was, and possibly still is , a Confederate states colony there, peopled by descendants of die hard confederate veterans. There were many Japanese colonials there as well.

Yes.  They moved to Brazil after The  American Civil War, because Brazil was one of the few agriculturallabour-intense subtropical countries where slavery was still legal.  It was the last country in The World Community to abolish slavery (in 1877).  The descendants of the Confederate planters still celebrate Confederate holidays and have festivalscommemorating their lily-white ancestors, even though most of them have intermarried with people of African slave ancestry.  A Brasilian friend of mine made a documentary film about them.  It was strange to see people with pitch-black skin and speaking Creole Brasilian Portuguese waving Confederate flads and singing "I Wish I Was in Dixie"!   

[The Australian Panther]

The history of the Japanese in Brazil is long and complex.

http://www.discovernikkei.org/en/journal/2008/1/24/copani-knt/

Then there are the Japanese Peruvians
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_Peruvians

Cheers!

 

[Andrew999]

Fascinating - I was aware of the Japanese in Peru and Brazil. For ten years, Alberto Fujimori was President of Peru - though he later faced disgrace:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberto_Fujimori

I was also aware that Japan, because of its declining population, invited Brazilian Japanese to return - Germany did the same with the Kazakh Germans at about the same time. In both cases, there were problems - the invitees finding it hard to adapt after three generations away:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazilians_in_Japan