{"id":8834,"date":"2012-12-21T22:38:54","date_gmt":"2012-12-22T03:38:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=8834"},"modified":"2012-12-21T22:38:54","modified_gmt":"2012-12-22T03:38:54","slug":"when-worlds-collide-george-formby-comics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2012\/12\/21\/when-worlds-collide-george-formby-comics\/","title":{"rendered":"When worlds collide: George Formby … comics?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve got a foot in many different worlds. I’ve got a foot in the science fiction world, a foot in the comic book world, a foot in the foodie world, a foot in the ukulele world … <\/p>\n

Wait! That’s far too many feet.<\/p>\n

In any case, sometimes these worlds overlap, such as when I’m at a science fiction convention and take my friends along on foodie expeditions. Or when some other friend brings a ukulele to one of those same cons and we get to jam. But for the first time, comics and the ukulele have formed their own Venn diagram, overlapping to result in this.<\/p>\n

\"GeorgeFormbyComicStrip\"<\/a><\/p>\n

That’s right—a George Formby comic strip.<\/p>\n

Thanks to Steve Thompson of BookSteve’s Library<\/a> for pointing me to Lew Stringer’s blog, Blimey!<\/a>, where Stringer posted this page from the December 26th 1953 issue of Film Fun<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

I’ve no idea how many of these there were, but it looks like George’s Christmas turned out nice again!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve got a foot in many different worlds. I’ve got a foot in the science fiction world, a foot in the comic book world, a foot in the foodie world, a foot in the ukulele world … Wait! That’s far too many feet. In any case, sometimes these worlds overlap, such as when I’m at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[18,190],"class_list":["post-8834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-comics","tag-george-formby"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8834\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}