Carol Day

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Carol Day in a Portuguese Political Newspaper

In the early 1970s Carol Day was one of several comic strips the Portuguese Jornal do Emigrante published, in which the original dialog was rewritten to express revolutionary political ideas.

Click here to view to see an example in a Portuguese political blog.

The text in the blog entry translates into English as follows: Influenced by the use of comics by the situacionists, the group publisher of Jornal do Emigrante, (in fact, one of the groups since the title of the newspaper was used by two distinct political sectors in the emigrant community, each competing for the legitimacy of its use - so there's 2 newspapers with the same name), published several comic strips, cartoons and caricatures using the original images and characters but giving them revolutionary phrases and plots. (Jornal do Emigrante, 10-11, May-June 1971.)

In English, the captions read as follows:

1 - Adam Boone: I'm fleeing the country. Just came to say goodbye to you.
2 - Carol Day: So, where are you going to?
3 - Adam Boone: My draft papers just arrived. I'm thinking of running away to France.
4 - Carol Day: You're running away to France?
5 - Adam Boone: Yes. I'll only come back to make the revolution. But soon you'll join me there. Till then!

MANY THANKS to Alberto Soares for forwarding this to us and for translating the blogger's note and the strip dialog!

The Carol Day Scrapbooks

As Carol Day was being published, David Wright collected tearsheets of the episodes from the Daily Mail and pasted them into a set of numbered scrapbooks. 11 of these scrapbooks are in the possession of David Wright's estate. Copies of #3 and #4 are in the collection of Michigan State University. The whereabouts of #12 and #13 are unknown.

Scrapbook #1 begins with episode #101, so the set of tearsheets unfortunately lacks the first Carol Day story.

The table below catalogs the content of the scrapbooks that we have seen. For scrapbooks we have not seen we have inferred the contents where it seemed reasonable. In these cases, we have noted "info presumed" in the Notes column.

Book #	Strips	Strips / Page	Pages	Size	Color	Notes
1	101-428	4	84	9.5 X 12.375	Green	1st, last pg blank
2	429-638	5	44	9.375 x 14.25	Blue	1st, last pg blank
3	639-848?					info presumed
4	849-1048?					info presumed
5	1049-1278	5	48	9.375 x 14.25	Red	1st, last pg blank
6	1279-1488	5	44	9.375 x 14.25		1st, last pg blank
7	1489-1698	5	44	9.375 x 14.25		1st, last pg blank
8	1699-1908	5	44	9.375 x 14.25	Blue	1st, last pg blank
9	1909-2118	5	44	9.375 x 14.25	Blue	1st, last pg blank
10	2119-2318	5	44	9.375 x 14.25	Red	1st, last pg blank
11	2319-2528	5	44	9.375 x 14.25	Blue	1st, last pg blank
12	2529-2738?	5	44	9.375 x 14.25		info presumed
13	2739-2948?	5	44	9.375 x 14.25		info presumed
14	2949-3158	5	44	9.375 x 14.25	Blue	1st, last pg blank
15	3159-3250	5	44	9.375 x 14.25	Blue	1st, last 24 pages blank

Here are scans of scrapbooks 1, 6 and 7 to provide a feeling of the different types.

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Scrapbook #1	Scrapbook #6	Scrapbook #7

David Wright's Pinups

David Wright was Great Britain's foremost pinup artist during WWII. The Illustrated London News archive has a good presentation of nearly 200 of his pinups online. Click here to view it.