I get quite a few emails regarding Bellamy's work and there are a few enthusiasts who know that no detail is too small, and Bill Storie gave me several things to do this week when I was wondering what to share with you!
Firstly he alerted me to this sale on eBay of a single that has some familiar artwork on it!
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| Frank Bellamy's artwork |
The artwork is taken from TV21 Thunderbirds story "The Bereznik Zoo Rescue" from TV21 issue 110. I've asked the seller for more information and will update this on receipt
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| TV21 110 |
Bill made me realise that as a "Southerner" I hadn't realised that the Daily Record was the Daily Mirror's name in Scotland when Bellamy was around. Why did he mention this?
I have noted one of the times Bellamy was interviewed on TV. I have a transcript and recording and to be honest it's not much use as an interview. In my view Barry Askew held the opinion that comics were ephemeral and hardly worth mentioning and the usual BAM, POW, CRASH were mentioned - a good indicator that someone's view of comics is stuck in the 60s Batman show. The programme, Edition, went out as the last programme of the evening (yes, TV used to be less than 24 hours a day!) and states "Frank Bellamy, the artist who draws 'Garth' in the Daily Mirror and the Daily Record [...]"
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| Radio Times (24/11/1973 - 30/11/1973) Page 51 |
As Bill says:
The Radio Times "Modest Strip Artist" reference mentions thatIt's amazing to me how I can seen this piece for 40 years and not have noticed the Daily Record reference. I've added the version from the copy of the Radio Times that I cut out and stuck in a lined notebook all those years ago. Needless to say I didn't stay up that late to watch it as I didn't even notice it was on till too late - and videos were as likely to be in my possession as a full size replica of Thunderbird 1!(erroneously)FB drew for the Daily Record - this is technically accurate inasmuch as he was never (as far as I know) commissioned to do art for that paper but his work did appear there quite often in the form of Garth and various other spot illustrations such as the moon landing piece. Back in those days the Daily Record was basically the Scottish version of the Daily Mirror (the Mirror did not have a large Scottish readership and much of the Mirror's daily output was simply re-jigged into the Daily Record).
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| Radio Times (24/11/1973 - 30/11/1973) Page 4 as it appeared |
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| Lion and lioness in profile with dead zebra |
And for good measure here we see Bellamy's rather abstract image of a Lion and zebra
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| Lioness and zebra - abstract |
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| Two lions and a zebra |
Many thanks to Bill, a fellow Mike Noble fan, for his prompting me to look at these points.
3 comments:
Steve, although the Daily Record was (and still is, I think) a Mirror Group newspaper, I don't think the Record was merely a renamed Mirror in Scotland, as the latter was (and is) also on sale here. In other words, I can buy both newspapers - they have their own identities.
Oops! Beg your pardon, Norman. I thought I was reading Steve Holland's blog (I'm still half asleep), hence me calling you Steve in my previous comment. Just call me Arthur and we'll be even.
Ok 'Arthur', thanks for your correction - totally my fault! I really will have to think before typing!
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