This was a part I’d drawn quite some time ago, but hadn’t done the text for.
I wonder how much of this will make sense to anyone outside of the UK …? Have fun working things out!
I should also really decide what the indicating accent is in Ealand (the fictional country in which this comic takes place; I’ve taken to pronouncing it as Eh-aah-land)…but I can’t decide upon an acute accent ( ´ ) or circumflex ( ̂ ), didn’t think I’d be using the name this much to be honest… whoops.
Anyway, disclaimer: This is a work of fiction, written 11 years prior and has absolutely nothing to do with any ongoing socio-political stuff going on in the real world. I'm sorry, I'm just some guy somewhere who draws cartoon animals for a living.
Thank you again for your time and support.
I wonder how much of this will make sense to anyone outside of the UK …? Have fun working things out!
I should also really decide what the indicating accent is in Ealand (the fictional country in which this comic takes place; I’ve taken to pronouncing it as Eh-aah-land)…but I can’t decide upon an acute accent ( ´ ) or circumflex ( ̂ ), didn’t think I’d be using the name this much to be honest… whoops.
Anyway, disclaimer: This is a work of fiction, written 11 years prior and has absolutely nothing to do with any ongoing socio-political stuff going on in the real world. I'm sorry, I'm just some guy somewhere who draws cartoon animals for a living.
Thank you again for your time and support.
Category Artwork (Digital) / Comics
Species Unspecified / Any
Gender Multiple characters
Size 1374 x 2378px
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Well the most obvious visual reference on this page is the recreation of the famous photograph of Bobby Moore, legendary captain of the England football team, being held aloft by his teammates and brandishing the World Cup trophy they had just won in the 1966 World Cup victory over West Germany.
At the top of the page is your version of the Live Aid concert in 1985, which brought together a bunch of famous music groups and individual performers to raise money for those affected by the deadly drought and famine in Ethiopia.
The "Gumshoe Press" might be a reference to the tabloid paper "The Daily Express", exhibiting the same quality of headline that the real life paper usually displays here in the UK.
The New National Stock Exchange seems to me to be an amalgamation of Great Britain's decimalisation of the currency back in the early 1970's, along with the relaxation of regulation and expansion of the London Stock Exchange which occurred in the mid-1980's (actions that less than two years later led to the largest domestic financial crash since the 1920's).
Meanwhile, the minimization and relegation of what should be huge news to small segments of a newspaper is unfortunately, as true now as it was back in the time period this story is sorta set in.
At the top of the page is your version of the Live Aid concert in 1985, which brought together a bunch of famous music groups and individual performers to raise money for those affected by the deadly drought and famine in Ethiopia.
The "Gumshoe Press" might be a reference to the tabloid paper "The Daily Express", exhibiting the same quality of headline that the real life paper usually displays here in the UK.
The New National Stock Exchange seems to me to be an amalgamation of Great Britain's decimalisation of the currency back in the early 1970's, along with the relaxation of regulation and expansion of the London Stock Exchange which occurred in the mid-1980's (actions that less than two years later led to the largest domestic financial crash since the 1920's).
Meanwhile, the minimization and relegation of what should be huge news to small segments of a newspaper is unfortunately, as true now as it was back in the time period this story is sorta set in.
Almost spot on!
Gumshoe Press is in fact a reference to what happened back in 2013: https://www.thedrum.com/news/2013/0.....id=1&pid=1
Gumshoe Press is in fact a reference to what happened back in 2013: https://www.thedrum.com/news/2013/0.....id=1&pid=1
Despite all the continuity announcements, Christmas tapes, and "Are You Being Served" episodes I've seen, I still don't know much about the underlying hard news from the UK in the period, the stuff involving labor disputes and whatnot. The Live Aid analog was easy to see, and later on, so was the '66 World Cup pose (Pickles and Jules Rimet couldn't be resisted). Oh, and Berlin. Reagan mentioned its Tiergarten in his famous speech. Continued on the dA post.
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