With the Queen's Diamond Jubilee reaching its climax in Great Britain to-day...Does anyone have anything to say about comics and comics like items reflecting itz/commenting upon it ? " Cashing in on it " I suppose might be the more cynical way of describing it - Or " Reflecting peoples' (assumed) feelings on it " , for a more kindly interpretation of this . Such as the." the Bash Street Kids having a street party " material I saw , from '77's Jubilee , in an old Denis Gifford book...
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British creator Lew Stringer has an item on the subject at his blog here and an item on comics published at the time of the coronation here.
I'm reading The Secret People by John Benyon/John Wyndham. This was published in 1935 and set in the then-future of the mid 60s. There's a bit early on in which two characters toss a coin and "look down at the profile of Queen Elizabeth the Second". This is an interesting guess as at the time the then-heir, who became Edward VIII the next year, had not yet married, so it was possible he'd do so and have children. In the event he succeeded his father in 1936, abdicated to marry a divorcee and was succeeded by Elizabeth's father.
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British creator Lew Stringer has an item on the subject at his blog here and an item on comics published at the time of the coronation here.
I'm reading The Secret People by John Benyon/John Wyndham. This was published in 1935 and set in the then-future of the mid 60s. There's a bit early on in which two characters toss a coin and "look down at the profile of Queen Elizabeth the Second". This is an interesting guess as at the time the then-heir, who became Edward VIII the next year, had not yet married, so it was possible he'd do so and have children. In the event he succeeded his father in 1936, abdicated to marry a divorcee and was succeeded by Elizabeth's father.