#Rupert Bear Annual

[picturebookshelf]

Rupert and Santa's Present (1992)

Story and Art: John Harrold

[protoslacker]

Field Guide to Decent Humans

I saw this on Facbook and like the notion of "decent humans." I didn't know anything about Charles van Sandwyk. I was happy to discover he is a contemporary artist.

When I was a little boy one of my favorite books was an old Rupert Bear annual my mother purchased at a rumage sale.. The picutres and stories were by Alfred Bestall. I was very young and can remember being in my crib with the book.

So seeing the brief bio of vanSandwyk and his statement, "In all of my work I have tried to create a gentle world in which to escape." I felt at home.

[novemberhush]

Thanks for tagging me, @littleblackraincloudofcourse !❤️

Three ships you like: Leo Hölzer x Adam Schürk from Tatort Saarbrücken, Mike Ross x Harvey Specter from Suits, Steve McGarrett x Danny ‘Danno’ Williams from Hawaii 5-0.

First ship ever: I’m not sure who came first, but it’s between Maddie Hayes x David Addison from Moonlighting, Anne Shirley x Gilbert Blythe from the Anne of Green Gables TV miniseries from the ‘80s and Jim Dempsey x Harriet ‘Harry’ Makepeace from Dempsey & Makepeace.

Last song you heard: My Honest Face by Inhaler.

Favourite childhood book: I loved reading as a child and devoured so many books, many of which I remember fondly, but I’m not sure I could name a favourite. I remember bawling my eyes out at Red Sky in the Morning by Elizabeth Laird and Children on the Oregon Trail by A. Rutgers van der Loeff, and being scared for Pooh and the gang when they got lost in the fog in one book.

I also remember Rupert the Bear annuals and lashings of ginger beer and hot, buttered crumpets in Enid Blyton books involving the Famous Five and the Secret Seven and the Five Find-Outers and Dog! There was another book I remember reading, a spooky ghost story, that got made into a BBC children’s miniseries and which I thought was called The Watch Tower, but a quick google informs me it was actually The Watch House by Robert Westall. I remember flying through it, wanting to see what all the ghostly goings-on were about!

I also loved all the Ladybird fairytales and had quite the collection! Everything from Cinderella to The Princess and the Pea. Picking a favourite, though, no, I don’t think I can.

Currently reading: The Quickening by Rhiannon Ward

Currently watching: The Twilight Zone (the original series), The Equalizer (the new version with Queen Latifah), and I have a few episodes of the latest season of The Rookie recorded, but I haven’t watched them yet.

Currently consuming: A tin of Pepsi Max

Currently craving: Rice Krispies. I may have to go get myself a bowl.

I tag @butdaddyilovehimmm @ishkabibblethings @castles-in-the-eyre @trickster-archangel @starry-mist @seylaaurora @hamster-on-fire @bewarethesmirk @z8-ra and anyone else who wants to play. No pressure on anyone who doesn’t!😘

[grandmaster-anne]

The Queen told me she had a soft spot for Rupert Bear. She remembered reading the Rupert annuals when she was a girl, and said Prince Charles loved Rupert, too.  

I told her that Rupert aficionados claim that Rupert isn’t a bear at all: he is a boy with a bear’s head.   

‘That can’t be right,’ she said, ‘Surely not.’  

‘Well,’ I said, ‘if you look at the pictures, you’ll see he’s got fingers on his hands and very human-looking feet.’  

‘I’m sorry you told me that,’ she said.  ‘Some things are best left unknown, don’t you think?’

— Extracted from Elizabeth: An Intimate Portrait, by Gyles Brandreth

[ao3feed-spuffy]

Popcorn

by ladyemma42

Xander Harris cordially invites you to the first annual Scooby Gang Halloween Party at the Magic Box! October 31, 2000 at 8pm Wear a costume and bring something good to eat. (PS Don’t tell Giles!)

Words: 4770, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV)

Rating: Mature

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: F/M

Characters: Buffy Summers, Spike (BtVS), Dawn Summers, Anya Jenkins, Xander Harris, Willow Rosenberg, Tara Maclay, Riley Finn, Harmony Kendall, Jonathan Levinson, Graham Miller, Devon MacLeish, Ben Wilkinson, Janice Penshaw, Rupert Giles

Relationships: Spike/Buffy Summers

Additional Tags: Halloween, Halloween Costumes, Party, Based on a picture book, Some questionable costumes but less than the source material, UST, Popcorn, Magic Gone Wrong, A Frank Asch Bear Story, Season/Series 05, Flirting, Trapped, Sexy eating

source https://archiveofourown.org/works/42519045

[mediamixs]

Fanily Guy Halloween Special 2024: what you must know

The upcoming Family Guy Halloween special is set to premiere on October 14, 2024, exclusively on Hulu. This marks a notable addition to the series, as it is the first holiday-themed special for the show, which has been entertaining audiences for over two decades.

Guest Stars and Plot

In this Halloween episode, Glen Powell will guest star as Patrick McCloskey, the reigning champion of Quahog’s annual Pumpkin Contest. The storyline revolves around Peter Griffin and his friends attempting to dethrone McCloskey in this contest by any means necessary. Additionally, Derek Jacobi will lend his voice to Stewie's teddy bear, Rupert, adding another layer of humor to the episode.

Context and Future Specials

This Halloween special comes as fans await the delayed premiere of Family Guy Season 23, which is now scheduled for midseason. Following the Halloween episode, a Christmas-themed special is also planned for release during the 2024 holiday season. The series continues to explore various parodies and storylines, including references to popular culture and classic films, ensuring that it remains relevant and entertaining for its audience.

Overall, the Family Guy Halloween special promises to deliver the show's signature humor and wit, making it a highly anticipated event for fans.

Family Guy has produced several memorable Halloween episodes over the years, showcasing the show's unique blend of humor and spooky themes. Here are some standout episodes:

1. Petergeist (Season 4, Episode 26)

In this episode, Peter discovers an Indian burial ground while building a multiplex in his backyard, leading to supernatural chaos reminiscent of the film Poltergeist. The episode features plenty of pop culture references and is often regarded as one of the spookiest in the series.

2. Halloween on Spooner Street (Season 9, Episode 4)

This episode focuses on Stewie's first Halloween and the pranks that Peter and Joe pull on friends and neighbors. It combines trick-or-treating antics with the show's signature humor, making it a fan favorite.

3. And Then There Were Fewer (Season 9, Episode 1)

While not strictly a Halloween episode, this murder mystery parody draws inspiration from Agatha Christie's works and features a suspenseful plot that fits the Halloween theme well[2][3].

4. Peternormal Activity (Season 14, Episode 4)

In this episode, Peter and his friends attempt to write a horror movie but accidentally get involved in a real-life murder scenario. The episode cleverly parodies various horror film tropes, making it a fitting choice for Halloween viewing.

5. Must Love Dogs (Season 20, Episode 3)

This episode features Halloween festivities where Quagmire tries to impress a woman while Stewie investigates candy theft in the house. Its Halloween backdrop adds to the comedic plot.

6. Happy Holo-ween (Season 21, Episode 6)

The most recent Halloween-themed episode involves a holographic machine that creates a more competent version of Peter, leading to humorous family dynamics during the Halloween carnival.

These episodes exemplify Family Guy's ability to blend humor with Halloween themes, making them memorable additions to the series.

[halloweendailynews]

'Family Guy' Halloween Special Coming to Hulu This October

'Family Guy' Halloween Special Coming to Hulu in October

A new Family Guy Halloween special will premiere exclusively on Hulu this October. In the Halloween-themed episode, Glen Powell (Twisters, Hit Man) guest stars as “Patrick McCloskey,” the reigning champion in Quahog’s annual Pumpkin Contest. Also guesting on the episode, Derek Jacobi (Gosford Park, Gladiator) plays the voice of Stewie’s beloved teddy bear, “Rupert.” Accoding to the official…

[allthenewsworld]

Glen Powell, star of "Twisters" and "Hit Man," will guest star in a Halloween-themed "Family Guy" holiday special on Hulu, premiering October 14.📺🎃

Powell plays "Patrick McCloskey," champion of Quahog's annual Pumpkin Contest, with Derek Jacobi voicing Stewie's teddy bear, Rupert.

The episode features Peter and friends trying to unseat McCloskey. This news was announced at San Diego Comic-Con, along with a Christmas special and teasers for Season 23. Highlights include parodies of "The White Lotus" and "Top Gun," and a storyline where Lois hears Stewie talk for the first time.

[juliehowlin]

Rupert Bear

The first Rupert Bear Annual was produced in 1936 and to date there have been 84 of them. There was even one every year during World War II when there was a Paper shortage.

10 things you might not know about Rupert Bear:

[sofwritesreviews]

Rupert Bear Annual (75th)

Rated: N/A

No Pages: 72

Tagged: classics-old-books, kids-books

This is a super fun one to start with! I loved this as a child and then a few months ago kept remembering imagery from it but could remember little else other than crazy paving and talking animals. Finally, I discovered the book and read it again for the first time in years, and enjoyed the nostalgia.

Review on goodreads: goodreads.com/review/show/4509173777

[vtgbooks]

The RUPERT Annual 1996 Vintage RUPERT Tv Show Book Vintage RUPERT BEAR Tv Show

[picturebookshelf]

Rupert Annual no.41 (1976)

Author: Freddie Chaplain -- Art: Alex Cubie

[downthetubes]

Chris Beetles Gallery Annual Sale launches, offering hundreds of original cartoons and more

A huge range of cartoon, and some comic art, features in Chris Beetles Gallery Annual Sale, on now

The London-based Chris Beetles Gallery is hosting a massive art and cartoon sale, starting tomorrow, Saturday 28th January 2023, offering a diverse mix of artworks at a variety of prices. Art on offer includes examples of the Daily Express strip, “The Gambols”, by Barrie Appleby, “Bristow” by Frank Dickens, Rupert Bear art by John Harrold, a TV Comic “Tom and Jerry” strip by the late Bill…

[onlineantiques]

Original 1939 Daily Express Publication Rupert Bear Annual eBay item number 234320675247 #rupertthebear #rupert #rupertbook#rupertthebear🐻 #rupertthebearbooks #annual #books #antiquarian #vintagebooks #childrensbooks #childrenstv #vintagetv #vintagerupert #vintagechildrensbooks https://www.instagram.com/p/Cl0f4cSI6r8/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[mariacallous]

Rishi Sunak steps up to the lectern of doom outside Downing Street, illegitimate, unelected, with no manifesto. The ungovernable party avoided the instant cataclysm of a run on the pound that may have come had Boris Johnson been refenestrated. But that’s the end of the good news, the forecast is bleak.

How Sunak will shape up is anyone’s guess, but he has the advantage of the lowest ever bar if he wants to improve on his two disgraced predecessors. One scar he bears is from that boast to Tunbridge Wells Tories that he had deliberately diverted funds from deprived urban areas to affluent places like theirs. Now we shall see if any concept of levelling up has gone for ever. A budget planned in days will reveal his intent. We know our leaders not by their words but by their budget priorities, and there may end whatever blip of a honeymoon he hopes for.

The country now pays a “moron premium” in higher borrowing costs for the stupidity of a party that chose Liz Truss to trash lenders’ confidence in Britain. Now a “sensible” pair of hands turns the ship into that grim “safe” haven we know so well: the captain and chancellor will crack the whip, batten down the public spending hatches and cut rations and pay. The annual inventory of HMS Britain taken last week by the Institute for Government and the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy (CIPFA) found shocking conditions in public services. The chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, warns of “eye-watering” remedies: expect leeches and arsenic.

Everyone talks of “hard choices”. But remember they are choices. This threatened programme of austerity is a political choice, not an economic necessity. Truss crashed the last chance the government had to borrow, which would be the normal Keynesian way to ease an oncoming recession. Now, the straitjacket is no borrowing for day-to-day spending, only for investment. But there’s no better time to be honest with voters who feel the depth of the crisis and blame the governing lunatics who chose tax cuts for the best-off instead of necessary tax rises.

Public services are at breaking point: ambulances are stacked for hours outside A&E while headteachers are warning of huge cuts in their stricken state schools, which are still funded below 2010 rates. The Institute for Fiscal Studies’ green budget graphs show steep falls in each department’s budget with cuts of over a quarter in benefits, housing and local councils. Torsten Bell of the Resolution Foundation warns of the “colossal fall in incomes next year”, with a horrific graph showing the depth of social injustice: those at the bottom lose 15% while top earners lose just 3%. The less you have, the more you stand to lose.

In signing up Sunak, the Tory party will embark on even deeper austerity in search of £40bn in cuts. Voters may not mind that the new prime minister is richer than the King, but it doesn’t help if he ignores starving children when only families living on less than a shocking £7,400 get free school meals. Tory MPs frightened for their seats are cakeists who want fiscal discipline. Yet even they may rebel at any medicine that prescribes cuts to services used by pensioners or adult social care.

Expect little talk of “protecting the most vulnerable” or “compassionate conservatism” from Hunt; he has taken Rupert Harrison, the former chief of staff to George Osborne and architect of austerity, as an adviser. Lest anyone forget, Paul Johnson of the IFS describes that era as “completely unique in history for the scale of spending cuts”. The Institute for Government and the CIPFA say further cuts are impossible. There is nothing left to scrape off the bones of Britain’s derelict public services.

But if you want a sign of how the mood is changing, even among the most orthodox disciplinarians, consider the surprise intervention from Mervyn King, the former governor of the bank of England. He said there’s “a strong case for higher public spending” and that austerity would be more difficult this time round. Back in the day, King praised Osborne’s devastating mid-year axe-swinging in his 2010 budget.

Osborne’s decision to make cuts during a recession led to a deeper recession and slower growth. The UK’s growth has since fallen behind equivalent countries. King seems to have learned from this disaster. Now he tells the BBC it’s “time to front up” and tell the public they need to pay “significantly higher taxes”. No more pretending US tax rates can fund European-style spending, he warns. He’s right – and these facts are best coming from a reformed austerian. King not only backed Brexit but even called for a killer no deal with the EU; now he avoids mentioning Brexit at all. But that gives him all the greater heft in calling for tax rises when the likes of Iain Duncan Smith still mendaciously demand “efficiency savings” that don’t exist.

What’s needed, says the economist Paul Johnson, is a five percentage point rise in income tax, lifting tax rates to 25%, 45% and 50%, which, he tells me, would raise about £50bn. That requires a transparent and honest conversation with the public. He suggests correcting many existing tax absurdities: uncap council tax on high-value properties, for example, which still yield less than the old rates. Or have pensioners pay national insurance on all income, as they are one of the groups least likely to be poor (a quarter of pensioners have £1m in wealth or more).

Labour has its own plans for raising taxes, including windfalls, abolishing the non-dom status that allows people born in another country to pay tax only on their UK income, imposing VAT on private schools and cancelling some of the £175bn blown on tax relief, according to the IFS. Wealth is grossly undertaxed and trillions have been secreted in homes that have multiplied in value which their owners aren’t taxed for.

But the hard truth is that the bulk of tax everywhere comes from VAT, income tax and national insurance contributions. Even with taxes on wealth, there’s no avoiding most earners paying more. Politicians never dare advocate tax rises before an election, but this time there is a groundswell of economists preparing the ground for the public to choose taxes over cuts. Had we taxed more to invest in human and physical capital, as France, Germany or the Netherlands have done for decades, we might be up there with them. Low taxes don’t breed prosperity: thanks to Truss, the public now knows it.

With Sunak now leading the country, we can expect two more years of turmoil: look how even the erstwhile “sensibles” such as Ben Wallace and Alok Sharma backed Johnson. He warns he’ll be back, hovering over these “hard choices” to swoop back for an election if Sunak’s punishments prove lethally unpopular. Labour is now all but certain to win according to most psephologists. Rejecting austerity, it promises to account for every penny raised and spent. Voters need to know these are all choices, not an iron destiny.

[ottoline-otter]

Because Ottoline Otter deserves her own post actually

My former 9-year-old self owes John Harrold everything for giving us such a great female (animal) character with such an important role in Rupert's tales. Ottoline meant so much to me as a kid, and she is still my favourite ever Rupert Bear character.