Growing up with a younger brother called ‘Rupert’ this little bear has been a constant fixture in our lives. Another 2000ad adjacent connection would be Bryan Talbot’s Grandville which opens with a murder investigation in Nutwood.
I interviewed Bryan for the Orbital podcast and read all the Grandville books in preparation. They are fascinating on various levels… definitely not what I was expecting.
"Everybody knows his name!" Thanks for the memories. I actually had a friend called Rupert and I think I first read his copies of his namesake's books.
You cite 200AD, but you didn't want to cite the references to Rupert's world mashed up with The Island of Dr. Moreau in Alan Moore's "League of Extraordinary Gentlemen?" I originally thought the frog was a referenced Beatrix Potter in Moore's work, but the image you've posted seems like it was Rupert there as well. Anyway, thank you, it was a fun post!
Wonderful. I still have 3 of my childhood Rupert annuals. It's always puzzled me why Rupert was always brown on the covers but white on the panels inside... Rupert and his chums feature in one segment of my novella 'Ricochet' btw.
Something I always wondered about myself, Tim. I think there's a rare book cover where he was white... I think. Now I'm curious which annuals you have. I'll now go and revisit Rupert in Ricochet. I'd forgotten about that.
Growing up with a younger brother called ‘Rupert’ this little bear has been a constant fixture in our lives. Another 2000ad adjacent connection would be Bryan Talbot’s Grandville which opens with a murder investigation in Nutwood.
I interviewed Bryan for the Orbital podcast and read all the Grandville books in preparation. They are fascinating on various levels… definitely not what I was expecting.
I never knew you had a brother called Rupert! A good tip about Grandville, Jason. It's not one I've read.
"Everybody knows his name!" Thanks for the memories. I actually had a friend called Rupert and I think I first read his copies of his namesake's books.
I remember that song!
You cite 200AD, but you didn't want to cite the references to Rupert's world mashed up with The Island of Dr. Moreau in Alan Moore's "League of Extraordinary Gentlemen?" I originally thought the frog was a referenced Beatrix Potter in Moore's work, but the image you've posted seems like it was Rupert there as well. Anyway, thank you, it was a fun post!
There was also a case of Rupert being referenced in the OZ magazine scandal, but I didn't want to go there!
Wonderful. I still have 3 of my childhood Rupert annuals. It's always puzzled me why Rupert was always brown on the covers but white on the panels inside... Rupert and his chums feature in one segment of my novella 'Ricochet' btw.
Something I always wondered about myself, Tim. I think there's a rare book cover where he was white... I think. Now I'm curious which annuals you have. I'll now go and revisit Rupert in Ricochet. I'd forgotten about that.
I also can’t help imagining Tufty and his pals existing on the same plane of reality.
I had the Tufty Club badge!
Still kinda gutted I lost mine :(
Yeah, not sure if I still have mine.