tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816075755902555378.post1930573795703964868..comments2024-03-22T05:09:57.169+00:00Comments on Cloud 109: The Wild Wild West and Ron EmbletonPeter Richardsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15566601617123798061noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816075755902555378.post-8549541144751927262018-01-02T09:43:53.697+00:002018-01-02T09:43:53.697+00:00It's like someone has taken a photo and the im...It's like someone has taken a photo and the image has been changed to inks! Amazing artistDan humhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06466675417437825087noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816075755902555378.post-46190823612629976502011-03-17T08:35:34.944+00:002011-03-17T08:35:34.944+00:00I'm quite sure that Peter is only too pleased ...I'm quite sure that Peter is only too pleased with the added value your comments are bringing to his excellent blog Georges!<br /><br />I completely agree that Rugerro Giovannini's later work on Olac was much more impressive than his version of Wulf. For some reason the black & white reproduction (which had also been used for his earlier adaptation of the Iliad in The Children's Newspaper) seemed to suit his style rather better, allowing him to produce some amazingly powerful 'splash' panels (not sure what the French term for that would be!). In my opinion Olac also benefited from some remarkably literate scripts (thought to have been written by Willie Paterson of Jeff Hawke and Wrath of the Gods fame) which displayed a solid grasp of genuine historical events.<br /><br />Incidently, it would be remiss of me not to mention the fourth great Olac artist Carlos Roume - another illustrator who deserves a whole website of his own, and one of the best depictors of horses in the history of the comic strip.Phil Rushtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11115717268103349676noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816075755902555378.post-88183911808677085742011-03-16T17:42:47.219+00:002011-03-16T17:42:47.219+00:00Just an answer...I don't want ti parasitize th...Just an answer...I don't want ti parasitize that wonderful blog...<br /><br />Thanks PETER to had a look at my prolific but not always successfull<br />production...Too..too much figths with the editors...But it was an other story....<br /><br />As i know, only 2 issues of my serie "ZOULOULAND " have been translated in English by an editor in CAPE TOWN South Africa..<br />VAE VICTIS exist in French (of course) Italian, German and Neerland..<br />I know all the series mentionned by Phil..Some only by few issues<br />of EAGLE, LOOK and LEARN, BOY'S WORLD in can find..In the last<br />century, it was very difficult to find foreign books..<br />Now, with Internet, it is a children's play ground !!<br />FRANK BELLAMY drawn fantastic pages..I discovered him in french<br />'PILOTE" (Comic book of ASTERIX..approximatively same looking<br />than EAGLE)..With FRASER of AFRICA..Amazing colors !! and "The <br />life of WINSTON CHURCHILL" I have some double pages of "HEROS<br />the SPARTAN" but not enought for reading the story well..<br />"OLAC THE GLADIATOR" was printed in France as a pocket comic<br />book..I know only 2 issues designed by GERRY EMBLETON<br />Many of them are from RUGGERO GIOVANNINI...Some was made in<br />France when they had no british material, designed by a late friend<br />PIERRE DUPUIS....This serie his the prefered of a very good friend of<br />mine MICHEL ELOY a great, great specialist of antic world..<br />He has the most beautiful site about the "peplum"<br />PEPLUM-IMAGES DE L'ANTIQUITE ..He is Bulge, he worked with<br />JACQUES MARTIN (ALIX)..<br />RUGGERO GIOVANNINI was a very good designer, very quick..<br />his work on "OLAC" was better than the design on "WULF" who<br />disapointed me..In Italy, RUGGERO works on many comics<br />and superb plates in colors on "IL VITTORIOSO"..Some was<br />reprinted in "SPIROU"...<br />I've also met DON LAWRENCE at ANGOULEME and AMSTERDAM<br />We worked for the same editor GLENAT..He was very well known in france<br />for his work on "STORM" and "TRIGAN" ..I don't had a very good<br />exchange because i can't speak easealy english..And i said that<br />i prefer his old works.. "WELLS FARGO" and "SWORDS of the SEA<br />WOLVES" (ERIC le VIKING in France)..Perhaps him not ?<br />I know also some "SHEPHERD KING" and "MARCO POLO" by<br />BELLAMY and "THE ROAD of COURAGE" by F.HAMPSON but my<br />preference always was RON !!! And i could also read the story<br />of "WULF" (ROCK) in french and in the majority of my stories<br />the theme is the same..The resistance of a free people to an<br />powerfull and opressive invader...<br />Certainly RON was a foreign master for me and a constant "source<br />of inspiration"...by his marvellous design and colours...<br />I've seen just only some pages of "DON'O THE DRUMS" and the<br />plates of "ROGER'S RANGERS" in color in "LOOK and LEARN"..<br />'I had tryed also to tell the story of ROGERS, but the designer don't<br />liked old stories, old dumb films (NORTHWEST PASSAGE !!! VIDOR'S<br />masterpiece) et dont wan't make efforts and searching on the period<br />and costumes..The series was interrompted and was the worst echec<br />of my "carreer"..<br />Sorry to be so long..And good continuation for your blog and job..georges RAMAIOLInoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816075755902555378.post-32737944423478665402011-03-16T12:10:11.175+00:002011-03-16T12:10:11.175+00:00More information on Georges phenomenal work can be...More information on Georges phenomenal work can be found here:<br /><br />http://lambiek.net/artists/r/ramaioli_g.htm<br /><br />and here:<br /><br />http://georgesramaiolibiographie.blogspot.com/<br /><br />Incroyable!!!Peter Richardsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15566601617123798061noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816075755902555378.post-68613990002332763482011-03-16T11:47:04.680+00:002011-03-16T11:47:04.680+00:00Gosh Georges, 'Vae Victis' looks wonderful...Gosh Georges, 'Vae Victis' looks wonderful - do you know if it has been translated into English?<br /><br />Sadly the UK produces very little material like this nowadays, but during the 1950s and 1960s Ron Embleton's Wulf was only one of several British comic strips set in Roman times - the most notable of the others being 'Heros the Spartan' drawn by Frank Bellamy and Luis Bermejo, and 'Olac the Gladiator' drawn by Don Lawrence, Ruggero Giovannini and Gerry Embleton - both of which were huge influences on me as a young boy.<br /><br />As for Ron's Western strips, my own personal favorite would have to 'Roger's Rangers' - a historical subject that fascinated him so much he tackled it twice: once in the pages of Mickey Mouse Weekly in 1953, then again almost twenty years later for Look & Learn.Phil Rushtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11115717268103349676noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816075755902555378.post-34333668654417661532011-03-16T05:16:57.381+00:002011-03-16T05:16:57.381+00:00Thanks again...
Sure i known the pages of "BI...Thanks again...<br />Sure i known the pages of "BIGGLES" printed in France..Some illustrations books about "the West" but i never find those one about<br />"The SIOUX".. A friend of mine François CORTEGGIANI, writer of<br />youngness of BLUEBERRY, described me a poster of RON which he looked<br />on a room of the editor of "LANCE" by Warren TUFTS.. The Assault of a fort by the HURONS...I dreamed about till i see it by internet !!!<br />Thanks to post those illustrations about "WEST" an other with the<br />"Epic" of my "Domain of predilection"...<br />The Epic, i had written with the pseudo of SIMON ROCCA was named<br />"VAE VICTIS" ed SOLEIL.The designer is one of the best in France<br />JEAN-YVES MITTON...<br />About me...http://georgesramaioli.blogspot.com<br />I'm boiling in pression of impatience to see the "WULF" book...<br />I have all the page in french..But I'm sure there were many inedits<br />and surprise and a look really better than the one printed in<br />"Intrepide Hurrah"<br />please, excuse me for my poor english and thank you again..georges RAMAIOLInoreply@blogger.com