Thursday, October 9, 2014

British Romance Comics: Love Story Picture Library 1333 - "Drop-out"

Having said recently that I saw a significant difference between British and American romance comics, I have to eat my words now. This short story is from 1976's Love Story Picture Library #1333. I've no idea who the artist is, although there are some things about it that remind me of a crude version of something Demetrio might have drawn. The story runs pretty much true to the sort of simple and well-tried plot you'd find in contemporary Charlton romance books from this side of the pond. It's one of those 'he turns out to be not quite what he initially seems to be' stories about a respectable and fairly level-headed girl who falls for a beach bum. See what you think.








Nine pages doesn't provide much room to develop the plot, so it succeeded in covering quite some ground in an economical sort of way. I'm not sure where this beach is supposed to be - somewhere in the UK probably, since it's a British comic. Even with Britain's varied coastline, there are few places where you have sand, rocky cliffs, sand dunes, and the right kind of waves for surfing, but it would probably have to be the South-West (e.g. Cornwall), or even South Wales maybe. I wish there was a version of Overstreet for these comics, something that identified artists. It would be a daunting task to compile such a tome, and may even be near impossible for European comics at this point in time.

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10 comments:

  1. Vítor LindegaardOctober 9, 2014 at 3:50 PM

    There were quite a few Spanish artists working in the UK at that time and most of them do have a very similar style - there was really a Spanish school of comics and illustration. Angel Badia Camps could be a possibility for this one, Enric Badia Romero for the previous post and Pepe González for the first one, but I have many, many doubts - all of them worked with different styles, sometimes with darker and simpler lines, sometimes with a vaguer trait with multiple strokes.... I don't know...

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  2. KBOctober 14, 2014 at 9:56 AM

    Thank you, Vitor. I can see what you are saying regarding Romero and González. I am unfamiliar with work that is identified as Camps, so this is completely new for me.

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  3. J ScottOctober 31, 2014 at 9:27 AM

    Hello! I was doing a search for British comics artist Leo Davy and came across your site. My blog has some similarities with yours though it focuses on one title in particular (British girls comic Jinty): I have linked to your blog and look forward to reading through your posts!

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  4. UnknownNovember 22, 2014 at 5:03 AM

    Thank you

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  5. José Ruiz DelAmorJanuary 14, 2015 at 2:56 PM

    Thanks of every all. Good job. Ah, yes, is Demetrio artwork.

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  6. José Ruiz DelAmorMay 22, 2016 at 12:14 PM

    Correction.. is Angel Badía Camps. Sorry.

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    1. KBJune 5, 2016 at 2:11 PM

      Thanks José. Two readers say Angel Badía Camps, so this is the majority opinion so far.

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  7. David RoachJanuary 5, 2019 at 11:39 AM

    Hi- it's actually drawn by Ruiz Pueyo!

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  8. José Ruiz DelAmorApril 18, 2022 at 6:28 PM

    Well yes, certainly, I think David Roach is right; I say this not only because he is perhaps the greatest connoisseur of agency work by Spanish cartoonists, but also because if we compare the male character in this story with the Korak that Cándido Ruiz Pueyo drew, he gives us a complete success. Ist Cándido Ruiz Pueyo, yeah.

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