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    As of 2014, the three longest-running comics of all time were all British. British comics are usually comics anthologies which are typically aimed at...
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  • Eagle was a British children's comics periodical, first published from 1950 to 1969, and then in a relaunched format from 1982 to 1994. It was founded...
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  • what was referred to in the comics industry as the 'British Invasion' - seemed to point to a potential audience of older British comic readers that were not...
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  • British girls' comics flourished in the United Kingdom from the 1950s through the 1970s, before beginning to decline in popularity in the 1980s and 1990s...
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  • worked in the employ of DC Comics, but in recent years many have also worked for Marvel Comics. Characteristics of the British Invasion included a greater...
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    Comics are a medium used to express ideas with images, often combined with text or other visual information. It typically takes the form of a sequence...
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  • Tiger was a weekly British comics periodical published by Amalgamated Press, Fleetway Publications and IPC Magazines from 11 September 1954 to 30 March...
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  • versions of the British Isles, which act as a nexus point between dimensions via Otherworld. Marvel UK, the British wing of Marvel Comics, had been established...
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  • International: All Change at Fleetway". The Comics Journal. No. 130. Fantagraphics. July 1989. British Comics: A Cultural History. Reaktion Books. December...
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    Comic book (redirect from East Asian comics)
    dialogue contained in word balloons emblematic of the comics art form. Comic Cuts was a British comic published from 1890 to 1953. It was preceded by...
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  • pence, it was too expensive[speculation?] compared to other D. C. Thomson comics at the time, which were priced at around 5 pence. According to the 2008...
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  • Smut was a British adult comics magazine that was launched on 1 May 1989. "Smut" is an English term for any form of media that is considered profane or...
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    called Sizzle.[citation needed] In 1979, the British magazine Viz first appeared parodying earlier British comics anthologies with an injection of incongruous...
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  • Thunder was a weekly British comics periodical published by Fleetway Publications from 17 October 1970 to 13 March 1971. A boys' adventure comic, the title...
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  • Warrior was a British comics anthology that ran for 26 issues between March 1982 and January 1985. It was edited by Dez Skinn and published by his company...
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  • viable for other IPC weeklies. Format-wise, it was a departure for British comics of the period, being almost the same size as an American comic (Vulcan...
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    a humorous tone. Notable early humor comics include the Swiss comic-strip book Mr. Vieux Bois (1837), the British strip Ally Sloper (first appearing in...
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  • Notable events of 2024 in comics. January: Jan Vriends officially becomes the new Stripmaker des Vaderlands (Comic Artist of the Mother Country) in the...
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  • Jet was a weekly British comics periodical published by Fleetway Publications from 1 May to 25 September 1971. A boys' adventure comic, the title only...
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  • Hurricane was a weekly British comics periodical published by Fleetway Publications from 29 February 1964 to 8 May 1965. The title was billed as "the companion...
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  • Commando War Stories in Pictures, and colloquially known as Commando Comics, is a British comic book magazine that primarily draws its themes and backdrops...
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  • The Sunday comics or Sunday strip is the comic strip section carried in most Western newspapers. Compared to weekday comics, Sunday comics tend to be...
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  • 2005, with cover art by Garry Leach. In April 2021, the Treasury of British Comics published a volume of strips that were originally serialised in Lion...
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  • Comics has developed specialized terminology. Several attempts have been made to formalize and define the terminology of comics by authors such as Will...
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    American comics was enacted, leading to a boom in indigenous comics. However, a loophole existed whereby a British publisher could import overseas comics, print...
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  • Viz is a British adult comic magazine founded in 1979 by Chris Donald. It parodies British comics of the post-war period, notably The Beano and The Dandy...
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  • 2000 AD is a weekly British science fiction-oriented comic magazine. As a comics anthology it serialises stories in each issue (known as "progs") and was...
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  • Photo comics are a form of sequential storytelling that uses photographs rather than illustrations for the images, along with the usual comics conventions...
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  • Gremlins in the mid 1990s "Book: Denis Gifford, The Complete Catalogue of British Comics (Exeter, Webb & Bower, 1985)". "Jackpot issue 1, 5 May 1979". Printed...
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    for comics and print cartoons. Outside Korea, the term usually refers to South Korean comics. Manhwa is directly influenced by Japanese Manga comics. Modern...
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