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Comic And Book Related => Comic Talk => Topic started by: Andrew999 on August 30, 2020, 07:16:40 AM
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Today we commemorate the 111th birthday of Barry Appleby - one of the greats of British newspaper comic strip creators. Barry brought us the perfect middle-class sounding board of the Gambols:
https://www.lambiek.net/artists/a/appleby_b.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gambols
The Gambols are often dismissed as light and fluffy but they do deserve a more detailed analysis - they represent an aspirational England of happy families, financially secure, living in a modest though comfortable setting wrapped in a blanket of love, respect and joyful routine that it appears fewer and fewer are able to achieve in real life as the fractures in our society turn into gaping crevices.