http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/2007/camel-cigarette-cartoon-capers/ The Best In Sci-Fi & Fantasy, News, Reviews, Graphic Novels, comics and more! Mon, 13 Feb 2012 01:06:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=1662 http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/2007/camel-cigarette-cartoon-capers/comment-page-1/#comment-102408 The Forbidden Planet International Blog Log » Clarks Commandos Sun, 02 Dec 2007 13:12:51 +0000 http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/?p=5819#comment-102408 [...] How strange, just a few days ago I was talking about ‘advertorials’, those features or strips in magazines that pose as genuine articles but are actually adverts and here’s Steve Holland on Bear Alley posting up a much more agreeable incarnation of the advertorial, Clarks Commandos, designed to look like a classic British boy’s war comic strip, not dissimilar to the sort of thing we’d have been reading in Warlord (use your secret code wheel to decipher a secret message from Lord Peter Flint now, boys!), but this is to promote footwear by Clarks, who are a company that to this day I associate with being taken to in order to get fitted out for school shoes. [...] [...] How strange, just a few days ago I was talking about ‘advertorials’, those features or strips in magazines that pose as genuine articles but are actually adverts and here’s Steve Holland on Bear Alley posting up a much more agreeable incarnation of the advertorial, Clarks Commandos, designed to look like a classic British boy’s war comic strip, not dissimilar to the sort of thing we’d have been reading in Warlord (use your secret code wheel to decipher a secret message from Lord Peter Flint now, boys!), but this is to promote footwear by Clarks, who are a company that to this day I associate with being taken to in order to get fitted out for school shoes. [...]

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