THE PERISHERS

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Is it still going? If so, how and why? Can anyone remember anything about it other than a dog called Boot?

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Monday, 10 May 2004 18:48 (twenty-one years ago)

― tom west (thomp), Monday, 10 May 2004 19:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Would be okay if I assume that this strip is the zenith of British comics, so that I'm absolutely sure I'm not missing out on anything?

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 10 May 2004 19:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Actually, there's a bundle of old Perishers annuals in the Oxfam, if you feel the need for them, I could sort something out. A nod's as good as a wink to a blind horse etc.

I remember the Buster-like child who was brutally homeless and nearly starved, humourously, in the collection that somehow found its way into our house.

― Vic Fluro, Monday, 10 May 2004 22:01 (twenty-one years ago)

TATTY OLDBITT! If anyone's looking for a new ILX 'handle' there it is!

Thankyou Vic for the kind Perishers offer which I will have to politely decline.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 05:47 (twenty-one years ago)

the zenith of british comics was by morrison and yeowell wasn't it

― tatty oldbitt (thomp), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 13:51 (twenty-one years ago)

(sorry)

― tom west (thomp), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 13:52 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm sure the perishers is still going in the papers, like

― Jaunty Alan (Alan), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 14:27 (twenty-one years ago)

a couple sites from google tell you to keep up with it in the mirror, but the mirror doesn't have comics online. also it is now drawn and written by someone else, like.

― tom west (thomp), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 16:56 (twenty-one years ago)

It's had lots of people write and draw it over the years and I've never read it much, but I have the impression that it used to be pretty good. If those collections are like under a quid each, I'd go for them, Al - is this an Oxfam I can easily visit?

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 14 May 2004 17:14 (twenty-one years ago)

It's in York... I'll have a look in tomorrow and if they're still there I'll snaffle them up... however, I got an incredibly good deal there last time I was in on an Invisibles Book 1 for £2.50, so it won't be the last amazing deal in that place.

― Vic Fluro, Friday, 14 May 2004 18:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Only comic (more or less) I've bought since the latest couple of Essentials was a Giles volume in a charity shop for 25p. I was happy.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 14 May 2004 21:18 (twenty-one years ago)

The Perishers used to be grate, roundabout the mid-late seventies - a kind of class-based, 'regional' UK variant/wrinkle on Peanuts, complete w/ self-aware kiddies and talking/thinking animals. There's nothing else quite like it.

Received wisdom has it that the strip went down the toilet when writer Maurice Dodd(s?) took over the artwork as well (I can't think of any other examples where this happened - writer taking over the drawing - tho' I'm sure there are some...)

There was also an animated version w/ voices by Leonard Rossiter!

There was also an animated series

― Andrew L (Andrew L), Friday, 21 May 2004 10:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Uderzo, artist on Asterix, started writing it after Goscinny died; er, unless I've got those names the wrong way around.

As for The Perishers going downhill, I blame thirteen years of Tory misrule. That's what everything else in the strip got blamed on (and rightly so too. Bl**dy Tories.)

― David Simpson (David Simpson), Friday, 21 May 2004 11:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Artists have taken over writing loads of times, but I can't think of any others that went the other way either.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 21 May 2004 14:22 (twenty-one years ago)

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