{"id":27125,"date":"2022-12-26T08:59:18","date_gmt":"2022-12-26T08:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/?p=27125"},"modified":"2022-12-27T09:22:42","modified_gmt":"2022-12-27T09:22:42","slug":"genre-annuals-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2022\/12\/26\/genre-annuals-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Genre annuals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The comic has been with us a long time now and debate still continues about where, when and exactly what constitutes the first of these artefacts to truly earn the title. There\u2019s a lot less debate about the Children\u2019s Annual: a particularly British institution and one that continues &#8211; albeit in a severely limited manner &#8211; to this day. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>It\u2019s a rare and tragically deprived kid who never received a colourful card-covered compendium on Christmas morning; full of stories and comic-strips and usually featuring the seasonal antics of their favourite characters, whether from comics such as <strong>The Beano<\/strong>, <strong>The Dandy<\/strong>, <strong>Lion<\/strong>, <strong>Eagle<\/strong> and their ilk, or TV, film or radio franchises\/personalities such as <strong>Dr Who<\/strong>, <strong>Star Wars<\/strong>, <strong>Thunderbirds<\/strong>, <strong>Radio Fun<\/strong> or <strong>Arthur Askey<\/strong>. There were even celebrity, sports and hobby annuals plus beautifully illustrated commemorative editions of the fact and general knowledge comics such as <strong>Look and Learn<\/strong>, and special events such as the always glorious <strong>Rupert Bear<\/strong> or <strong>Giles<\/strong> Annuals. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Here then is a brief celebration of the kinds of genre celebrations which delighted kids and their parents\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The comic has been with us a long time now and debate still continues about where, when and exactly what constitutes the first of these artefacts to truly earn the title. There\u2019s a lot less debate about the Children\u2019s Annual: a particularly British institution and one that continues &#8211; albeit in a severely limited manner &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2022\/12\/26\/genre-annuals-5\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Genre annuals&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-graphic-novels"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4AFj-73v","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27125"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27126,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27125\/revisions\/27126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}