BRITCARDS
English comic cards have a different visual feel from American cards. To be frank, I don't usually find their fat cards as sexy as my favorite American artists (if you've been to the rest of this site, you know who they are). But for many of us, Britcard images were the first we ever saw of fat seaside folk - the syndicated teevee repackagings of Benny Hill in the seventies used ‘em as bridges for commercial breaks - which gives ‘em all a nostalgic cachet. Hence this page.
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Donald McGill
One of the most prolific of the Britcard artists, McGill did more than his share of fat themed postcards (see the Dimensions home page for a recent appreciation by yours truly).
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While the cards below may have minimal cachet in the collector’s market (compared to the original cards they reference), I’m personally tickled by the idea behind ‘em. Postcards reprinting stamps commemorating postcards: we’re in Victor Victoria country here (“a woman pretending to be a man pretending to be a woman?”) The stamps came out in 1994 as part of a larger series celebrating the centennial of the picture postcard; the postcards are more recent. Note that since only the original image was reprinted, the cards’ punchlines have been excised. Britcards have favored a magazine cartoon
format, while American cards have typically placed text within the image.
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