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.
December 3rd, 2007 at 2:02 pm
I posted this one a while back: http://downthetubescomics.blog.....g-fun.html
December 3rd, 2007 at 2:05 pm
Regarding that one I liked the recent History of the World Backwards by Rob Newman where he has governments unable to deal with rising health care and retirement costs so as time rolls back to the 60s and 50s they encourage everyone to smoke more :-)