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Pugwash Sketches
Three original and signed sketches by John Gerald Christopher Ryan (1921-2009) including Captain Pugwash, Cut-throat Jake and Tom the cabin boy. Ryan devised the characters while he was an art master at Harrow and the first comic strip appeared in The Eagle in 1950. A few years later he was commissioned by the BBC to create an animated series of short films. Inspired by the shadow puppetry of the 13th century he used cardboard cutouts of the characters and levers to move the figures and objects against a fixed background.
In 1991 Ryan won libel damages from two newspapers after they had published stories that the BBC had taken Captain Pugwash off the air because of the risqué names of some of the crew aboard. The names of Master Bates, Seaman Staines and Roger the Cabin Boy had first appeared in university “rag mags” as a joke and they had since been accepted as an urban myth.
Item No. 0248.
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In 1991 Ryan won libel damages from two newspapers after they had published stories that the BBC had taken Captain Pugwash off the air because of the risqué names of some of the crew aboard. The names of Master Bates, Seaman Staines and Roger the Cabin Boy had first appeared in university “rag mags” as a joke and they had since been accepted as an urban myth.
Item No. 0248.
Price The price has been listed in British Pounds.
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DimensionsTwo at 14cm x 10cm and one at 12cm x 8cm
Date 2000
Late 20th Century Antiques Material Paper
Origin Scottish
Artist John Gerald Christopher Ryan
Condition Excellent
Item code as171a116 / 0248
Status Sold
£330.00
$412.90
€383.16
$
€
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View all stock from
Parbold Antiques
By appointment only
Near Wigan
Lancashire
Tel : 01257 462869
Non UK callers : +44 1257 462869
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