Anybody out there with information on BELINDA BLUE EYES?
Mike & Carole Curtis
EYES, 1930's -1959. Any information would be appreciated.
Thanks
Mike
D. D. Degg
> I'm trying to research the LONDON DAILY MIRROR comic strip BELINDA BLUE
> EYES, 1930's -1959. Any information would be appreciated.
I'll guess that you googled the net and found this image from John
Adcock
http://yesterdays-papers.blogspot.com/2007/01/belinda-blue-eyes-garth-jimpy-and-patsy.html
any any other mention on the world wide web.
Don't have any comic strip history books devoted exclusively to
the creators of Great Britain, however...
The Maurice Horn-edited The World Encyclopedia of Comics (1976)
has an entry by Denis Gifford.
The 250 (or so) word entry says this Little Orphan Annie impersonator
began September 30, 1935 and lasted until October 17, 1959.
Artists on the strip were "Gloria", Steve Dowling and Tony Royle.
This Encyclopedia seems to be in all libraries.
Comics: Anatomy of a Mass Medium (1971) by Reinhold Reitberger
and Wolfgang Fuchs only mentions the strip in passing as part of
a list of Daily Mirror comic strips.
The Penguin Book of Comics (1967, revised 1971) by George Perry
and Alan Aldridge only gives a few words of text to the strip:
"Belinda Blue Eyes was a perpetual waif, a British counterpart to
the transatlantic Little Orphan Annie. Over the years she grew slowly.
By 1959 when the strip ended she had just about reached the stage
when she needed a bra." (page 204)
However on page 218 they reproduce a Daily Mirror page from July
1943 which has the strip, now titled "Belinda";
and on page 219 they print the Daily Mirror strips from October 17,
1959 - showing the last "Belinda" strip.
That's it for any mention of "Belinda Blue Eyes" in my library.
D.D.Degg
yardlet5
> Mike wrote:
> > I'm trying to research the LONDON DAILY MIRROR comic strip BELINDA BLUE
> > EYES, 1930's -1959. Any information would be appreciated.
>
> I'll guess that you googled the net and found this image from John
> any any other mention on the world wide web.
>
> Don't have any comic strip history books devoted exclusively to
> the creators of Great Britain, however...
>
> The Maurice Horn-edited The World Encyclopedia of Comics (1976)
> has an entry by Denis Gifford.
> The 250 (or so) word entry says this Little Orphan Annie impersonator
> began September 30, 1935 and lasted until October 17, 1959.
> Artists on the strip were "Gloria", Steve Dowling and Tony Royle.
> This Encyclopedia seems to be in all libraries.
>
> Comics: Anatomy of a Mass Medium (1971) by Reinhold Reitberger
> and Wolfgang Fuchs only mentions the strip in passing as part of
> a list of Daily Mirror comic strips.
>
> The Penguin Book of Comics (1967, revised 1971) by George Perry
> and Alan Aldridge only gives a few words of text to the strip:
> "Belinda Blue Eyes was a perpetual waif, a British counterpart to
> the transatlantic Little Orphan Annie. Over the years she grew slowly.
> By 1959 when the strip ended she had just about reached the stage
> when she needed a bra." (page 204)
> However on page 218 they reproduce a Daily Mirror page from July
> 1943 which has the strip, now titled "Belinda";
> and on page 219 they print the Daily Mirror strips from October 17,
> 1959 - showing the last "Belinda" strip.
>
> That's it for any mention of "Belinda Blue Eyes" in my library.
> D.D.Degg
There is a book called "Great British Comics" by Paul Gravett & Peter
Stanbury,published by Aurum. There is a printed strip of "Belinda"
with some mention of what the comic was about but not much.