[paddybrown]

Hi there. I'm Patrick Brown from Belfast, Northern Ireland. Just rediscovered the site. I apparently signed up in 2012, but I can't have done anything much with it. I don't seem to have uploaded anything or made any posts in the forum.

Rediscovered it last night and have been losing myself in The Knockout. There are some fantastic artists who worked on that weekly in the 30s and 40s - Eric R. Parker is nearly always there, with a couple of spot illos, and usually a page or two of strip, and I've also found some Sep E. Scott, DC Eyles and Mike Hubbard. When I get time I might add some notes identifying artists.

I have some old British comics that I'll scan and upload once I work out the proper format and what's legal for the site, and whether you've already got any of them. To hand I have two Knockout Fun Books (1950 and 1953), a Chick's Own annual (1924), a Girl annual (no 6, doesn't give the year but I'm pretty sure it's 1950s), and a Collins Girls's Annual (1963) and issues of Radio Fun (1952), Comet (1949 & 1950) and Bubbles (1929).

[narfstar]

Very happy to have you back. As you can see there is more here than you could read in a lifetime. Our non-United States books have soared since your last visit. YES and THANK YOU we would love to have scans of books we do not already have. It sounds like the books you have will be OK. If you upload them Paw will check to make sure they will work. If you have any art identification please go to www.comics.org and add them there. This site actually links to that site to get credits for the creatives. Thanks again

[paddybrown]

Cheers. I've uploaded my issue of Bubbles. If that gets okayed and there are no problems with it, I'll get on with the other ones.

[paddybrown]

I've also noticed you do newspaper strips. I've been rooting through newspaper argives to collect a forgotten gem called "Bunty and her Bus" by H. O. Batho, a strip about a young flapper who gets given a motor car for her birthday, and her adventures driving around with her friends. It ran for about seven months in the Nottingham Journal in 1924, and was reprinted as "Bunty and the Car" in the Belfast Telegraph in 1925. It's a nicely drawn and beautifully staged strip, almost cinematic, at a time when most comic strips, and even a lot of cinema, were like stage shows, two-dimensional, front and centre, enter stage left. "Bunty" has a three-dimensional setting and a moving viewpoint, which is quite ahead of its time in the 1920s. I'll go through my scans and start uploading.

A few samples at this link: https://ukcomics.fandom.com/wiki/Bunty_and_her_Bus

[The Australian Panther]

"Bunty and her Bus" by H. O. Batho

H. O. Batho (1888-1932)
https://ukcomics.fandom.com/wiki/H._O._Batho_(1888-1932)

Sounds like a gem! Can't wait!

[paw broon]

Hello Patrick.  Great to have you back. Thanks for Bubbles and I fancy a swatch at "Bunty and her Bus".

[paddybrown]

Working on it. The two papers (that I know of) that published it ran the strips in different orders, and there seem to be some sequences that have been broken up, so I'm trying to figure out the right order to put them in.

Of the two issues of the Comet I have, you already have one, and you also already have my Girl annual, so that cuts down the amount of scanning I have to do.

[crashryan]

When I saw "Bunty and her Bus" the first thing I thought of was:

[The Australian Panther]

Well Done Crash!

[paddybrown]

I have tried comics.org, but the interface is not user friendy, it took a couple of weeks for my first edit to be accepted, during which time i couldn't make any more edits, and the email they eventually sent me offering to answer any questions is a no-reply address. So if you don't mind, I'll identify what artists I can in comments here, and if anyone with authority to make edits at comics.org can copy them over there if they want.

[Andrew999]

Welcome Paddy - Time for the fun to begin!