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Ally Sloper's Half Holiday is a British comic, first published on 3 May 1884. A British comic is a periodical published in the United Kingdom that contains comic strips Events 1491 - Kongo monarch Nkuwu Nzinga is baptised by Portuguese missionaries adopting the baptismal name of João Year 1884 ( MDCCCLXXXIV) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year It has a legitimate claim to being the first comic magazine named after and featuring a regular character. Star Ally Sloper, a blustery, lazy schemer often found "sloping" through alleys to avoid his landlord and other creditors, had debuted in 1867 in the humor magazine Judy — created by writer and fledgling artist Charles Henry Ross and inked and later fully illustrated by his French wife Emilie de Tessier under the pseudonym "Marie Duval" 1 (or "Marie DuVal"; sources differ). Alexander "Ally" Sloper is one of the earliest fictional Comic strip characters Isabelle Emilie de Tessier (born 1850 in Paris) who worked under the Pseudonym Marie Duval, was a French Cartoonist, known A pseudonym is a fictitious alternative to a person's legal name (see Alias)

The "half holiday" referred to in the title was the practice in Victorian Britain of allowing the workers home at lunchtime on a Saturday, a practice that also established the kick-off times of football matches. Culture The Victorian fascination with novelty resulted in a deep interest in the relationship between modernity and cultural continuities The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a Team sport played between two teams of eleven players and is widely considered

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Publication history

19th-century issue of the British comic magazine Ally Sloper's Half Holiday
19th-century issue of the British comic magazine Ally Sloper's Half Holiday

The black-and-white weekly comic paper Ally Sloper's Half Holiday, typically of eight tabloid pages and priced one penny 1, was first published on 3 May 1884, a short time after Ross, had sold the rights to the character to Gilbert Dalziel, an engraver and the publisher of Judy. A British comic is a periodical published in the United Kingdom that contains comic strips A penny (pl pence or pennies) is a Coin or a unit of Currency used in several English -speaking countries Events 1491 - Kongo monarch Nkuwu Nzinga is baptised by Portuguese missionaries adopting the baptismal name of João Initially launching the paper with proprietor W. J. Sinkins, Dalziel was soon in full control, publishing it from "The Sloperies", 99 Shoe Lane, EC. Alongside the strips featuring Sloper, the magazine also featured prose stories and cartoons and strips of other characters. 2

Sales of the magazine have been estimated as being as high as 350,000, the magazine describing itself as "the largest selling paper in the world". The paper found a mixed audience: aimed at adults it captured both a loyal working class, male base, as well as attracting a cult following amongst the middle class of the time. Working class is a term used in academic Sociology and in ordinary conversation to describe depending on context and speaker those employed in specific fields or types The middle class, in colloquial usage consists of those who have some economic independence but not a great deal of social Influence or power. 3

Although the weekly initially ceased publication on September 9 1916, after 1,679 issues, it was later revived between November 5 1922 and April 14 1923 4, again from 1948 to 1949, and finally from 1976 to 1977, each attempt failing to capture the imagination of the British public as the original once had. Events 1000 - Battle of Svolder, Viking Age. 1379 - Treaty of Neuberg, splitting the Austrian Events 1499 - Publication of the Catholicon in Treguier ( Brittany) Events 43 BC - Battle of Forum Gallorum: Mark Antony, besieging Julius Caesar 's assassin Decimus Junius Brutus in 5

Contributors

William Giles Baxter 6 took over art duties for the Sloper character with issue 13. 7

William Fletcher Thomas 8 became the artist on the Ally Sloper strips following Baxter's death in 1888. 9

James Gibbins contributed his expertise in the field of handwriting, a skill he put forward to the police at the time of the Jack the Ripper murders, offering to analyse items thought to be authored by the ripper. "Handwriting" redirects here For scripts for writing down notes by hand see " Cursive " Jack the Ripper is an alias given to an unidentified Serial killer active in the largely impoverished Whitechapel area and adjacent districts of London 10

Thomas Burke contributed stories. Thomas Burke (November 1886 &ndash September 22, 1945) was a British author 11

Influence

The weekly comic paper is widely cited as being the first comic book or magazine to feature a regular character, and is also often cited as the first comic as well. A comic book (often shortened to simply comic and sometimes called a comic paper or comic magazine) is a Magazine or Book of narrative Half Holiday helped established the financial viability of the medium and codified the British form to an extent visible many years later in publications such as Viz. Viz is a popular British adult Comic magazine that has been running since 1979

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