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Comic strip - European History, Art, & Culture: The first recurrent British comic characters, after Ally Sloper appeared in the 1870s, were those in Jack Yeats’s Conan Doyle burlesque The Adventures of Chubblock Homes (published in Comic Cuts, begun 1893) as well as Tom Browne’s tramps Weary Willie and Tired Tim. The latter strip was sponsored in 1896 by the publisher Alfred Harmsworth and was originally intended for the newly literate and semiliterate masses, but it developed into children’s fare. Distinctive British contributions were the magazine of strips designed for preliterate children, such as Tiger Tim’s Weekly, which carried Tiger Tim (1904–80), the oldest and longest-lived of British ....
Chinese s pies in French. It proved so successful that he recently had a significantly expanded version translated into English. Faligot’s ambitious book spans a century of Chinese espionage, from the beginnings of the Chinese Communist Party to the Xi Jinping era. In the 1920s, a youthful Zhou Enlai organised Chinese communist cells, in Hong Kong under the alias Stephen Knight and in France as Wu Hao, while Deng Xiaoping, then a factory worker in Paris, spent his evenings mimeographing underground pamphlets. The Chinese secret services modelled themselves on the Soviets, who trained many of their operatives. Both wove complex webs, spying on factions, dissidents and each other. The Belgian Hergé was inspired by real characters in 1930s China to write the Tintin adventure ....