This raises the most interesting question of all. Did seeing corporal punishment repeatedly depicted in comics help make it...
One contributor who read British comics throughout the 1970s and 80s remembered the punishments as reflecting the world around...
It would be misleading, however, to imagine every British children’s publication overflowing with slippers and canes. Readers remembered noticeable...
The discussion also wandered across the Atlantic. American newspaper strips and comic books contained their own history of spanking...
Comic books were never produced in a cultural vacuum. Publishers had to consider parents, teachers, distributors and, at various...
By the 1980s, Britain was changing. Attitudes towards children, education and physical punishment were shifting, and the comics changed...
Pick up an old annual today and the experience can be surprisingly revealing. There are jokes that remain funny,...
It is tempting to dismiss all this as simple nostalgia. But these comic strips deserve a little more attention...
Perhaps that is why these old comics continue to fascinate collectors. We are not simply looking at Dennis, Minnie,...
One particularly memorable story concerns a visitor staying with a family in Scotland. One morning, the lady of the...
https://www.youtube.com/embed/lDYj7Ksk1RQ One reader remembers being on holiday and doing something thoroughly ordinary: choosing fruit in a supermarket. Nearby was...
Another reader takes us back to the summer holidays of the late 1960s. While at university, he took a...