Syndicated comic strips.

darkdubh

What ones do you remember from the good old days?Flash Gordon in Irelands Own.Also The Phantom in The Sunday World and Henry(he was a bit strange,he was bald and never spoke).Any favourites?

Aglomerado

Ah the Phantom "The Ghost who walks" ! Remember it well.

darkdubh

Aglomerado wrote: »

Ah the Phantom "The Ghost who walks" ! Remember it well.

Yes they used to repeat the backstory quite a lot where the first Phantoms father is killed by pirates and he swears on his skull for revenge.

darkdubh

What was that slightly risque one that they showed in one of the English Tabloids?Something adventures of Pauline,a lot of it involved her with little or no clothes.

uch

My own personal favourite was Ernie, by Bo Grace

Ralf and Florian

darkdubh wrote: »

What was that slightly risque one that they showed in one of the English Tabloids?Something adventures of Pauline,a lot of it involved her with little or no clothes.

Sounds like The Perils Of Page 3 Pauline.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/50832486@N00/2674744217/

branie

Moose and Broom Hilda in the Evening Press

Professey Chin

I can only remember more recent ones like Hagar.
Too much time reading the Beano :pac:

branie

Remember the Wizard of Id?

Professey Chin

The world needs more of The Far Side come to think of it

Ralf and Florian

branie wrote: »

Remember the Wizard of Id?

Stll around I'm sure.

Professey Chin

darkdubh

The Dark Lord Cthulhu wrote: »

The world needs more of The Far Side come to think of it

Yes sadly missed.I have all the the book collections.I don't see the Far Side Greeting cards for sale any more they used to have them in Easons.

darkdubh

Judge Dredd in The Star.Mutt And Jeff.And I nearly forgot about Wicked Willy who was a talking you know what.I diden't see any of the strips themselves as I'm sure they were printed in some adult magazine but Wicked Willy Tshirts were very popular at one point.I remember a fella in our school got into trouble for coming in wearing one.

Professey Chin

darkdubh wrote: »

Yes sadly missed.I have all the the book collections.I don't see the Far Side Greeting cards for sale any more they used to have them in Easons.

Best thing for any Far Side fan is this
My parents got me it for Christmas a few years ago. 2 massive hardcovers you coukd beat someone to death with.

They also got me this one too. Best christmas ever :pac:

johnnyyesno

Remember that one "Love Is..."? I can't understand why they used two naked children as the main characters, especialy as it would sometimes imply they were supposed to be adults (showing them driving cars etc). They used to be popular greeting cards too. Don't see it anymore understandably.

NewbridgeIR

johnnyyesno wrote: »

Remember that one "Love Is..."? I can't understand why they used two naked children as the main characters, especialy as it would sometimes imply they were supposed to be adults (showing them driving cars etc). They used to be popular greeting cards too. Don't see it anymore understandably.

Started around the same time as the film Love Story so beginning of the 70s. Apparently still going - not sure where it's reproduced now.

Hangdogroad

Does the Indo still run that Count Curly Wee strip?

Hangdogroad

Some history on the strip here. I remember Hugh Leonard being disparagingly referred to as "Count Curly Wee", probably in Hot Press.

https://downthetubes.net/?p=109302

NewbridgeIR

Hangdogroad wrote: »

Some history on the strip here. I remember Hugh Leonard being disparagingly referred to as "Count Curly Wee", probably in Hot Press.

https://downthetubes.net/?p=109302

On a personal level he was sometimes obnoxious to deal with. Not pleasant to retail staff and would write about them disparagingly in his Sindo column.

Hangdogroad

NewbridgeIR wrote: »

On a personal level he was sometimes obnoxious to deal with. Not pleasant to retail staff and would write about them disparagingly in his Sindo column.

I always got that impression from his columns and interviews that he was a right condescending snob.

Conqueror

Hangdogroad wrote: »

Does the Indo still run that Count Curly Wee strip?

Yes, usually next to Dilbert.

NewbridgeIR

Hangdogroad wrote: »

I always got that impression from his columns and interviews that he was a right condescending snob.

Definitely. He wouldn't mention them by name but would give the details of the shop / retail outlet and enough information about the individual as to make them identifiable and effectively caused embarrassment for people.

Hangdogroad

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/106739991#Comment_106739991

It seems to have been the inspiration behind this 70s deoderant advert. Just utterly bizarre.

Scarred for Life (@ScarredForLife2) Tweeted:

1977 adverts were weird. https://t.co/Nel0c4Z7s3 https://twitter.com/ScarredForLife2/status/1500139943032729601?s=20&t=DOTBZogYl5hAHz8y_joqiA

Hangdogroad

George And Lynne used to appear in the Sun. The jokes were shite and the title characters annoying but it didn't matter as yer wan would get her kit off.

Hangdogroad

I remember a short lived one in the Irish Examiner circa 2000 called Girls In The City. It was supposed to be a Cork spoof of Sex And The City, it was mindboggilingly unfunny.

Hangdogroad

Nuada Of The Silver Arm by Jim Fitzpatrick, from the Sunday Independent October 13th 1975. Online sources say it ran 74/75 but this was its debut in the Sindo. It had a short run as it was cancelled over complaints from the usual suspects of being "pornographic".