{"id":3752,"date":"2009-07-24T19:36:07","date_gmt":"2009-07-24T19:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/?p=3752"},"modified":"2009-07-24T19:36:07","modified_gmt":"2009-07-24T19:36:07","slug":"john-ryan-1921-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2009\/07\/24\/john-ryan-1921-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"John Ryan 1921-2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m saddened to learn of the death of master story-teller John Ryan.\u00c2\u00a0 For my own potted biography of this gentle genius you can check out our review of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/?p=792\">Eagle Classics: Harris Tweed<\/a> although I&#8217;m sure the papers and news services will be full of fulsome obituaries for a man who was a pioneer of British comics, children&#8217;s books and television animation.<\/p>\n<p>Typically, I&#8217;ve been intending to review his <strong>Captain Pugwash<\/strong> children&#8217;s books for some time now but never quite got around to it.<\/p>\n<p>I first met him whilst teaching at the London Cartoon Centre where he was a rapturously received guest-speaker one evening. Afterwards, while chatting with the delighted fans of four generations who had come to see and hear him, he very kindly showed me the actual cut-out and props (painted in black and white wash tones) he had produced for the very first 1950s Pugwash TV episodes, whilst simultaneously drawing a freehand biro sketch of <strong>Mary, Mungo and Midge<\/strong> for my bemused and overwhelmed wife.<\/p>\n<p>He was a prince among men and we&#8217;re all the poorer for his passing, but at least his unique accomplishments will live in the legacy of brilliant tales he leaves behind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m saddened to learn of the death of master story-teller John Ryan.\u00c2\u00a0 For my own potted biography of this gentle genius you can check out our review of Eagle Classics: Harris Tweed although I&#8217;m sure the papers and news services will be full of fulsome obituaries for a man who was a pioneer of British &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2009\/07\/24\/john-ryan-1921-2009\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;John Ryan 1921-2009&#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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[42,90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-of-british","category-cartooning-classics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4AFj-Yw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3752","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=3752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3752\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}