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词条 Bristow (cartoon)
释义

  1. Background

  2. Syndication

  3. Radio adaptation

  4. Stage adaptation

  5. References

  6. External links

{{italic title}}{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2013}}{{Use British English|date=February 2013}}Bristow is a British gag-a-day comic strip created by Frank Dickens about a buying clerk of that name. The series was in continuous publication in the Aberdeen Press & Journal in September 1961 until its last appearance in 2012. [1] With over 10,000 strips made over the decades and running for over 51 years. Bristow is one of the longest running daily cartoon strips by a single author, according to Guinness World Records.[2] When looking at the character Bristow itself the series is even one year older than that, as Bristow debuted in Dickens' older series Oddbod in The Sunday Times in 1960. Due to his popularity he received his own spin-off series soon afterwards.[1] Dickens broke the original record held by Marc Sleen, whose The Adventures of Nero was drawn for 45 years without any assistance.[1][2] However, even Dickens' record has been broken in his turn by Jim Russell, whose series The Potts ran for 62 years.[1][3] [1]

Background

The cartoons follow the daily life of a buying clerk who works in the monolithic Chester-Perry building. He is a fantasist and has delusions of grandeur, wishing he were a brain surgeon and a writer. His epic tome Living Death in the Buying Department has yet to find a publisher, but he is not discouraged. He lives in a small bedsit in East Winchley and commutes to work by train, invariably arriving late. Bristow is surrounded by co-workers, Fudge (his overbearing manager), Jones, Hewitt, Dimkins, hapless typist Miss Sunman, master chef Gordon Blue, the Postboy and the ever-gossiping Mrs. Purdy the Tealady. Bristow has a crush on routine visitor Miss Pretty of "Kleenaphone". Another regular visitor is the pigeon who sits on a window ledge. During the winter, the bird travels to a warmer climate where she visits Bristow's counterpart, a black man in a white suit. Bristow invariably holidays at a beach resort known as Funboys Sur La Plage.

Frank Dickens is often credited for "inventing" a cartoon device whereby he wrote the words of the action next to the character, such as "flinch flinch", as he was unable to draw expressions well enough to fit in the comic-strip boxes.

Syndication

The strip was widely syndicated in Great Britain and in Australia. It appeared in the Birmingham Evening Mail and, between 1962 and 2001, appeared in the London Evening Standard newspaper. The Melbourne Age and Sydney Morning Herald published the strip from the late 1960s. Since 1966 at least eleven Bristow books have been published in the UK, as well as editions in Australia. A number of collections were published in Italy with the captions translated.

Radio adaptation

"Bristow" was made into a BBC Radio 4 series[10] written by Dickens and starring both Michael Williams as Bristow and Rodney Bewes as his colleague Jones.[11] There were 14 half-hour episodes made from April 1999 to July 2000,[12] with frequent repeats on BBC 7.[13] (Radio 4 Extra).

Stage adaptation

In 1971 the strip was also adapted into a theatrical play. [4]

References

1. ^1 {{cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/s/sleen.htm |title=Marc Sleen (Biography) |accessdate=19 August 2018 |deadurl=no |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160422035032/https://www.lambiek.net/artists/s/sleen.htm |archivedate=22 April 2016 |df=dmy }}
2. ^{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id%3Dcil7WbXg8BkC%26pg%3DPA102%26lpg%3DPA102%26dq%3Dguinness+book+of+records+marc+sleen%26source%3Dbl%26ots%3D9LPW61KHwW%26sig%3DpR0OR272m4Cqhj1iznUKKg61K44%26hl%3Dnl%26sa%3DX%26ved%3D0CCQQ6AEwATgKahUKEwiIpNyj4MvHAhWDtRoKHaaJDKo#v=onepage&q=guinness%20book%20of%20records%20marc%20sleen&f=false |title=Comics & Culture |page=102|accessdate=19 August 2018 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20180819201347/https://books.google.com/books?dq=guinness+book+of+records+marc+sleen&hl=nl&id=cil7WbXg8BkC&lpg=PA102&ots=9LPW61KHwW&pg=PA102&sa=X&sig=pR0OR272m4Cqhj1iznUKKg61K44&source=bl&ved=0CCQQ6AEwATgKahUKEwiIpNyj4MvHAhWDtRoKHaaJDKo#v=onepage&q=guinness%20book%20of%20records%20marc%20sleen&f=false |archivedate=19 August 2018 |df=dmy }}
3. ^1 {{cite web|url=http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/longest-running-cartoon-strip-by-a-single-artist |title=Longest running cartoon strip by a single artist |accessdate=19 August 2018 |deadurl=no |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160927183431/http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/longest-running-cartoon-strip-by-a-single-artist |archivedate=27 September 2016 |df=dmy }}
4. ^1 2 3 {{cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/d/dickens_frank.htm |title=Frank Dickens (Biography) |publisher=Lambiek|accessdate=19 August 2018 |deadurl=no |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160918014042/https://www.lambiek.net/artists/d/dickens_frank.htm |archivedate=18 September 2016 |df=dmy }}
5. ^1 {{cite web |title=Bristow. A Titles & Air Dates Guide |url=http://epguides.com/Bristow/ |publisher=epguides.com |last=Lavalie |first=John |date=10 June 2006 |accessdate=5 October 2008 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080912235457/http://www.epguides.com/Bristow/ |archivedate=12 September 2008 |df=dmy }}
6. ^1 {{cite web |title=Bristow Radio Programme And Cartoon |url=http://www.uttertrivia.com/bristow.php |publisher=uttertrivia.com |accessdate=5 October 2008}}
7. ^1 {{cite news |title=Goodbye Bristow; Londoner's Diary. |url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-75289790.html |publisher=Evening Standard |date=11 April 2001 |accessdate=5 October 2008}} {{dead link|date=February 2013}}
8. ^1 {{cite news |title=Radio: They're sinking fast in the typing pool |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/radio-theyre-sinking-fast-in-the-typing-pool-1089492.html |publisher=Independent Print Limited |newspaper=The Independent |date=25 April 1999 |accessdate=5 October 2008}}
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External links

  • {{bbc.co.uk|id=programmes/b00cft88|title=Bristow}}
  • {{URL|1=http://www.frankdickens.com/FD/Pages/Bristow/Bristow.htm|2=Bristow home page on official Frank Dickens website}}
  • {{URL|1=http://www.guter.org/bristow|2=Dedicated fan site exploring the world of Chester-Perrys and the characters that inhabit it}} (at guter.org)
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