Title: Guest in the House
Story: 261
Start: 2011-02-28
End: 2011-09-03
Span: 27 weeks
Strips: 162 Daily Strips
Width: 1,000 pixels
File: Graphic Interchange Format (GIF)
Story synopsis:
The morning in the city, Johnny Root goes out to take its car and… the car explodes. Then a long shot goes near Johnny. All that, plus a poisonned coffe… Is Red Decker (the mob chief) behind the bonb ? The reality is that Johnny Root must testify against Red Decker. The Chief ask Mandrake to come to the Police station. Johnny Root want Mandrake’s Xanadu as a safety place until Red Decker’s trial. Mandrake says “Yes!” At Xanadu, a plane is heard, an alligator is in the Pool, a snake…
Characters in this story:
Mandrake The magician himself
Narda Mandrake wife
Lothar Mandrake best friend
Brady Police Chief
Hojo Cook chief at Xanadu and... Inter-Intel chief
Johnny Root Mob and witness
Red Decker Mob chief
Story: 261
Start: 2011-02-28
End: 2011-09-03
Span: 27 weeks
Strips: 162 Daily Strips
Width: 1,000 pixels
File: Graphic Interchange Format (GIF)
Story synopsis:
The morning in the city, Johnny Root goes out to take its car and… the car explodes. Then a long shot goes near Johnny. All that, plus a poisonned coffe… Is Red Decker (the mob chief) behind the bonb ? The reality is that Johnny Root must testify against Red Decker. The Chief ask Mandrake to come to the Police station. Johnny Root want Mandrake’s Xanadu as a safety place until Red Decker’s trial. Mandrake says “Yes!” At Xanadu, a plane is heard, an alligator is in the Pool, a snake…
Characters in this story:
Mandrake The magician himself
Narda Mandrake wife
Lothar Mandrake best friend
Brady Police Chief
Hojo Cook chief at Xanadu and... Inter-Intel chief
Johnny Root Mob and witness
Red Decker Mob chief
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Read somewhere that Fredericks is now more than 80 years old. The drawings in this daily strip (and probably the last few ones) are ample proof of what a once brilliant artist has now become. The heartbreaker is that Va-Va-Voom Narda is looking pathetic in most of the panels.
ReplyDeleteDon't know if KFS will continue the daily strip, once Fredericks hangs up his brushes, with another artist. Or they might just kill the daily strip, similar to the way they killed the Sunday strip when Fredericks showed a disinterest in drawing the Sunday strips.
I agree with Venkit that the quality of the art goes down as the artist ages. Same thing happened with Sy Barry. His art went down in quality considerably in his later strips.
ReplyDeleteHi all,
ReplyDeletequality fall when age comes. Unfortunately, this goes to everyone and for everything.
Youngster: when you will enter in the second part of your 50 year old (55 to 60), you will start "experiencing" the bad side of been old.
That said, Fred Fredericks have an entry at wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Fredericks
Born in 1929, that gives him 82 y/o. Not bad.
Warning: the link to KFS is broken.
Use:
http://kingfeatures.com/comics/comics-a-z/?id=Mandrake
and click in "The Creators".
Emile
@Venkitachalam Subramanian & @Colonel Worobu I’m also grown up with Fredrick’s IJC versions. Initial stories were nice. Some days ago Sagnik has posted his full 1st Sundays work. It’s really something.
ReplyDeleteBut like good or bad Phantom’s new strips, once I wish reading. After all it’s Mandrake and still Fredrick’s name is connected.
Please don’t mind, I agree with Emile about our age. :)
Thanks to Emile and Prabhat once again....
ReplyDeleteLink not working bro. Please check.
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