Other entertainment included the magic lantern show in the wee wooden church hall opposite the library, and the Evening Times Bruin club at the Burgh Hall. This was a spin off from the Bruin the Bear cartoon strip in the paper. Back then I believed Bruin when he cut down a tree to use as a keel, broke up some barrels and built a boat from them to sail on his adventures. Nowadays kids would get legal aid, hire a lawyer and sue the Times because they misled them!
Alex Saville remembering his Glasgow childhood.
In a previous post I wrote a little about Bruin, the Evening Times version of the Danish children’s strip Rasmus Klump. That post included the cover and first page of a scrapbook of Bruin strips from the early 1950s. Here are a few more pages continuing the story.
I’d like to contrast those last strips with the same scene in a later translation, Barnaby Bear builds a boat, published by Random House New York in 1979. The Random House version, apparently translated not from the Danish original, but from a German edition, loses much of the humour.
Rasmus Klump/Bruin/Barnaby Bear copyright © Egmont Serieforlaget.
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