My favourite art book store is going out of business. Just a few doors down there was a comics and second hand books store that went out of business last fall.
The art bookstore has been picked clean. There were several books in there that I had been keeping my eye on for years--meaning to get them when they went on sale. In particular the books by Burne Hogarth, but those were all gone.
Most of the books I snatched up today will probably be presents for other folks, but I found this one book from D&Q. It's called NIPPER (1967 - 1968) by Doug Wright. This comic strip feature became DOUG WRIGHT'S FAMILY. I'd almost completely forgotten about this feature. It ran in THE CANADIAN MAGAZINE which was carried as a Sunday supplement in the newspaper for many years.
But I think where I saw it was at the dentist or the doctor, when I was a kid. Waiting rooms back in the '60s would have these books that collected local comic strip features like NORRIS and JASPER--and probably DOUG WRIGHT'S FAMILY.
Apparently D&Q has published a whole set of Doug Wright books, but this was the only one I found in the store.
I'll have to add Doug Wright to my CAN COM 101 blog [although I hate opening up that blog, because it's loaded with so many pictures and it's real touchy--one wrong move and I can throw the formatting off completely].
The pleasure of NIPPER (and DOUG WRIGHT'S FAMILY) is that it's all pantomime--no words.
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation has a flashback feature on Doug Wright at the
CBC Digital Archives: Doug Wright's family.I don't know if it will play for people outside Canada--and if it does play you'll have to put up with some ads and you'll have to bear with the guileless manner in which Canadians speak.
