Showing posts with label Ringo. Show all posts
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Saturday, December 16, 2017

Kid Calling

Saturday Leftover Day.

I have been showing some of the comedian strips from the British late fifties/early sixties magazine Film Fun. In later issues, they added realisticly drawn adventures series to their line-up. Most of them were in an stodgy, old-fashioned style but here is one that will appeal to the Cisco Kid lovers out there. Ringo was drawn by the Chilian/Argentnian artist Arturo del Castillo. Acoording the Lambieks comic guide it was created for the magazine Top Shot, which was published form 1958 to 1960 and merged with Film Fun in 1960. Personally I recognize it from the later sixties, when it was also used in the Dutch weekly Sjors. Lambiek mentioned he made new stories between 1968 and 1974 with Hector Oesterheld, the famous south American comics writer. I downloaded a couple of issues of Top Shot but could not find Ringo in them, so I have added another stylisticly similar western strip and a rather flashy adaptation of a Sabatini novel.