British comic strips

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 71. Chapters: If..., Modesty Blaise, Striker, Thrud the Barbarian, Dennis the Menace, Rupert Bear, Alex, Jeff Hawke, The Perishers, James Bond, Andy Capp, Clare in the Community, Steel Claw, Ogri, Billy's Boots, Warlord, Garth, The Cloggies, Pip, Squeak and Wilfred, Captain Star, Japhet and Happy, Teddy Tail, Emperor of the Daleks, Biff, Lesser Known British Comic Strips, Jane, Oojah, Bobby Bear, Eight Ace, The Seekers, Beryl the Peril, Queens Counsel, Captain Biplane, Modesty Blaise Quarterly, Biffo the Bear, Tamara Drewe, Whacky, Great Pop Things, Kid Chameleon, The Fosdyke Saga, Flook, Mustapha Million, Store Wars, Sweeny Toddler, Toby Twirl, Brickman, Countdown, Luck of the Legion, Beelzebub Jones, Farmageddon, Fishboy, The Bumpkin Billionaires, Celeb, Pirates of the Caribeano, Suburban Satanists, Just Jake, The Gambols, Colonel Pewter, The Leopard from Lime Street, Leviathan, Tom Thug, Grimbledon Down, Genius, Sid's Snake, Master Mind, Addie and Hermy, Beat Your Neighbour, Skid Kidd, Scarth A.D. 2195, Wonder Wellies, Charlie Peace, Sweet Tooth, Super School, Odd Ball, Mickey the Monkey, Lazy Bones, Harold's Planet, Champ, Maxwell the Magic Cat, Lost Consonants, Varoomshka, Rob Riley, Cannonball Kid, Tomboy, Romeo Brown, Tug Transom, Watch Out Beagle's About. Excerpt: Modesty Blaise is a British comic strip featuring a fictional character of the same name, created by Peter O'Donnell (writer) and Jim Holdaway (art) in 1963. The strip follows the adventures of Modesty Blaise, an exceptional young woman with many talents and a criminal past, and her trusty sidekick Willie Garvin. It was adapted into films made in 1966, 1982, and 2003 and a series of 13 novels and short story collections, beginning in 1965. In 1945, a nameless girl escaped from a displaced person (DP) camp in Kalyros, Greece. She did not remember anything from her short past. She wandered through post-World War II Mediterranean, Middle Eastern and North African regions, where she learned to survive the hard way. She befriended another wandering refugee, a Jewish Hungarian scholar from Budapest named Lob who gave her an education and a name: Modesty (Blaise she added herself later, after Merlin's tutor from the Arthurian legends). Lob died when Modesty was 12 years old. Eventually, in 1953, she took control of a criminal gang in Tangier from Henri Louche and expanded it to international status as "The Network". During these years she met Willie Garvin. Despite the desperate life he was leading, she saw his potential and offered him a job. Inspired by her belief in him, he pulled through as her right-hand man in The Network and became Modesty's most trusted friend. Theirs is a strictly platonic relationship and is based on mutual respect and shared interests. He has always called her "Princess", a form of address only he is allowed to use. Other members of The Network would call Modesty "Mam'selle" (as in the French term "Mademoiselle" or "Miss"). She obtained British nationality by marrying and divorcing Englishman James Turner in Beirut; Turner died a year later of alcoholism. Having made a point of not dealing in secrets belonging to H.M. Government, when she felt she had made enough money, she retired and moved to England and Willie Garvin followed suit. Bored by t