Rob Riley (comic strip)
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Rob Riley was a British comic strip
during the 1960s and 1970s. It was a black and white strip drawn by Jesús Blasco
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It was a fairly realistic strip about an eponymous contemporary British schoolboy, set in the fictional town of Westhaven-on-Sea. At one point he obtained a scholarship
to a public school, the strip dealt with the social issues this raised. Slightly unusually for its time, he had a black friend.
It started in the Ranger, but it transferred to Look and Learn
along with the better-known The Trigan Empire.
Comic strip
A comic strip is a sequence of drawings arranged in interrelated panels to display brief humor or form a narrative, often serialized, with text in balloons and captions....
during the 1960s and 1970s. It was a black and white strip drawn by Jesús Blasco
Jesús Blasco
Jesús Blasco was a Spanish author and artist of comic books, whose career covered most of the conventional history of comic strips. He worked extensively in British comics in the 1960s and 1970s.-Career:...
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It was a fairly realistic strip about an eponymous contemporary British schoolboy, set in the fictional town of Westhaven-on-Sea. At one point he obtained a scholarship
Scholarship
A scholarship is an award of financial aid for a student to further education. Scholarships are awarded on various criteria usually reflecting the values and purposes of the donor or founder of the award.-Types:...
to a public school, the strip dealt with the social issues this raised. Slightly unusually for its time, he had a black friend.
It started in the Ranger, but it transferred to Look and Learn
Look and Learn
Look and Learn was a British weekly educational magazine for children published by Fleetway Publications Ltd from 1962 until 1982. It contained educational text articles that covered a wide variety of topics from volcanoes to the Loch Ness Monster; a long running science fiction comic strip, The...
along with the better-known The Trigan Empire.