A Door To Another Universe

I remember as a child watching a Japanese cartoon series called Marineboy. It told the tale of a boy who could swim underwater and stopped invading monsters through using exploding boomerangs.

The one thing that I haven't forgotten is that all the characters had such big eyes, which these days is known as Manga.

So I was pleased to see these characters protecting the doorway to a comic shop in the Lace Market. Looking at the state of it, especially with those bricks missing, it certainly needs something.

Well, Here's Another Nice Mess You've Gotten Us Into

As it's May the 4th, I was planning to do a homage to Star Wars, like so many other people have done today. But decided against it. Instead I'm doing an item about Laurel & Hardy.

There was a time when the BBC used to shot lots of the comic duo's short, and very funny films. Who can forget the one called 'The Music Box', where Stan and Ollie have to deliver a piano to a house up on a hill with lots of stairs, but end up smashing it.

So I was quite pleased to come across this rather old, but sadly damaged photo of the funny pair at the vintage carnival that we went to on Saturday.

I don't know when it was taken, or if it comes from one of their films, but it's quite an amusing scene of them being carted off in the back of an old Model T Ford. I don't know what they had been up to, or if they were escaping from some angry person that they had humiliated in some way with their antics.

Comic Cuts

A builder obviously has a sense of humour and some artistic flair, when he whitewashed the window of this building that is being done up.

He clearly was a fan of the Beano or Dandy comics when he was younger, as the main character he has drawn looks very similar to one of the Bash Street Kids.