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John Kent (2) (1937–2003)

Teoksen John Kent's Venice: A Color Guide to the City tekijä

Katso täsmennyssivulta muut tekijät, joiden nimi on John Kent.

7 teosta 98 jäsentä 2 arvostelua

Tekijän teokset

Varoomshka (1972) 9 kappaletta
The ABZ of Pornography (1972) — Kuvittaja — 3 kappaletta
Tales Of The Redundance Kid (1975) — Kuvittaja — 2 kappaletta

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Virallinen nimi
Kent, John
Syntymäaika
1937-06-21
Kuolinaika
2003-04-14
Sukupuoli
male
Kansalaisuus
New Zealand
Kuolinpaikka
Antibes, Alpes-Maritimes, France
Ammatit
cartoonist
illustrator
painter

Jäseniä

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Un guide de Venise entièrement dessiné à l'aquarelle.
 
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catherinedarley | Nov 4, 2014 |
A real pleasure to catch up with Varoomshka in a 1972 collection of this vintage British newspaper strip that I remember gawking at on the shelves of one of the big bookshops in the seventies. (I really wanted this instead of the Blue Peter annual!) Varoomshka, perhaps a great-niece of Jane from the classic Daily Mirror strip of the wartime era, tumbles through a series of black and white political satires, encountering fearsome dinosaurs of her time like Edward Heath and Tricky Dicky himself. Our pin-up heroine embodies Bowie's moonage daydream of glam allure in a succession of outrageous platform-booted period outfits, no doubt fresh from a shopping spree at Biba and Mister Freedom.

John Kent's cartooning is energetic and stylish, if perhaps blown up a little larger than it needs to be here. (It's POP ART, though, innit?) The satire is mostly incomprehensible at this historical remove, but it is a point of interest that it is written from a broadly left-wing perspective, and that Varoomshka appeared in the left-liberal Guardian newspaper from 1969-79.

Time capsule stuff from a vanished era when sexual desire was seen as a purely liberating force. VAROOMSHKA ROOLS OK!
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LordBangholm | Jul 21, 2012 |

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7
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98
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#193,038
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½ 3.7
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2
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56
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3

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