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Baxendale, Leo. A Very Funny Business. London: Duckworth, 1978. Added by: joachim (9/30/24, 9:11 AM) |
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| Resource type: Book Language: en: English ID no. (ISBN etc.): 0-7156-1311-1 BibTeX citation key: Baxendale1978 Email resource to friend View all bibliographic details  |
Categories: General Keywords: Autobiography, Baxendale. Leo, United Kingdom Creators: Baxendale Publisher: Duckworth (London) |
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In this book Leo Baxendale has lifted the lid off the closed and secretive world of British comics and given the contents a quick stir. In fact Leo Baxendale has been stirring up British comics since he burst into the Beano in 1953, at the age of 22, and changed the face of comics with his anarchic, bashing and thumping 'Bash Street Kids', 'Minnie the Minx' and 'Little Plum'. The World Encyclopaedia of Comics describes Leo Baxendale as the 'most influential and most imitated comics artist of modern times'. Leo Baxendale describes himself as 'placid, liking a tranquil life. I settle down like sediment wherever I happen to be. Yet twice in my career I have taken a flying leap in the dark'. After ten years as the most popular artist in the D.C. Thomson comics Leo Baxendale walked out to create Wham comic for Odhams Press. Then, after a decade as IPC's top comic artist, he left the world of comics for good to create the Willy the Kid comic books, commissioned by Duckworth. Leo Baxendale knew intimately, from the inside, both the office block/fortress of D.C. Thomson's Dundee Fun Factory and the anonymous corridors of IPC. Yet - as a freelance all his life - he was able to watch the bizarre world of comics with the cynical eye of a detached outsider. Leo writes, too, of the other giants of the comics whom he knew - Davey Law, the worried perfectionist who created 'Dennis the Menace', and Dudley Watkins, creator of 'Desperate Dan', "Lord Snooty', 'Oor Wullie' and 'The Brooms', who always drew with an open bible on his desk. Leo Baxendale is a humorist (he came to comics in 1953 deeply influenced by Tony Hancock and The Goons). Being funny is his business. And he has found the comics industry a very funny business indeed.
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