Colonel Blink (tagline: "The Short-Gighted Gink") was a fictional character in a comic strip in the UK comic The Beezer, first appearing in November 1958. A comic strip is a sequence of drawings that tells a story Currently in the Western world, most comic strips are written and drawn by a Comics artist The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located A comic book (often shortened to simply comic and sometimes called a comic paper or comic magazine) is a Magazine or Book of narrative The Beezer (called The Beezer and Topper for the last 3 years of publication was a British comic that ran from (issues dates 21 January Denis Gifford in his Encyclopedia of Comic Characters (1987) attributes his creation to "Carmichael. Denis Gifford (1927-2000 was a British writer He specialized in the history of popular entertainments such as Comic books and Horror films In his lengthy career " These days he occasionally appears in the reprint Classics from the Comics series. Classics from the Comics is a UK comic, first published in March 1996
The main source of the fun of these one-page stories was the combination of Blink's bluff, no-nonsense blimpish ways and his disastrous short-sightedness. Colonel Blimp is a British cartoon character The Cartoonist David Low first drew Colonel Blimp for Lord Beaverbrook 's London ''Evening With the usual comic disregard for foolish internal consistencies, every other story involved his driving down the road in a car that had obviously seen the dawn of the Edwardian era. Although Blink was "known to the police" for various misdemeanours involving often lunatic examples of mistaken identity he was never pulled over for dangerous driving.
Aiding and abetting Blink were:
- The ever-patient "Auntie," who acts as housekeeper, and who, despite her name was obviously considerably younger than the Colonel
- Rover the dog, who needs to be even more patient as he's often mistaken for lions, bears, rugs or insurance salesmen
- Next-door neighbour Cartright, often the innocent victim of some misunderstanding or other (him being accidentally covered in grass clippings leads Blink to shout approvingly: "Got a monkey to cut the hedge, eh Cartright? Dashed clever idea!")
- Sundry nephews and small boys, as motive forces, Greek chorus and/or astonished by-standers
- The long-suffering local constabulary
The charm of the stories lies in the utter lack of malice in Colonel Blink: the madcap adventures are an escalating sequence of disasters based on innocent and often very well-meaning intent. A very similar character to Colonel Blink is Mr. Magoo, who also gets himself and others in trouble due to his short-sightedness. Mr Quincy Magoo (or simply Mr Magoo) is a cartoon character created at the UPA animation studio in 1949
Colonel Blink has been parodied in Viz as "Colonel Blimp the short-sighted gimp". Viz is a popular British adult Comic magazine that has been running since 1979 The character was much the same as his Beezer origin, except that he was a BDSM fan.
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