Sir Bagby
Sir Bagby | |
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Author(s) | "R & B Hackney" (Rick Hackney and Bill Hackney) |
Current status/schedule | Concluded Daily & Sunday |
Launch date | 1957 |
End date | 1967 |
Syndicate(s) | Bell McClure Syndicate |
Genre(s) | Humor |
Sir Bagby was an American daily strip created by brothers and , who signed the strip "R & B Hackney." The setting was a medieval world filled with anachronisms and puns. (In that, it resembled Jack Kent's King Aroo, distributed by the same syndicate.) The strip ran in a small number of US newspapers from 1957 to 1967, as well as in The Canberra Times from 1960 to 1966.[1]
Characters and story[]
The main characters are Sir Bagby, a knight, King Filbert I, II ("King Filbert I was my father. He built the business up so I decided to keep the name."), a wizard named Snerk, a jester named Solly, a playwright named Faro, and his assistant, Billingsgate.
Reprints[]
The only reprints of the strip have been in Comics Revue.
References[]
- ^ Holtz, Allan (2012). American Newspaper Comics: An Encyclopedic Reference Guide. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press. p. 353. ISBN 9780472117567.
- Strickler, Dave. Syndicated Comic Strips and Artists, 1924-1995: The Complete Index. Cambria, CA: Comics Access, 1995. ISBN 0-9700077-0-1.
External links[]
- Sir Bagby at ComicStripFan
- Rick Hackney, Lambiek's Comiclopedia
Categories:
- American comic strips
- Comics characters introduced in 1957
- Gag-a-day comics
- Fictional knights
- Comics set in the Middle Ages
- 1957 comics debuts
- 1967 comics endings
- American comics characters
- Comic strip stubs