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Biff is a British cartoon strip, created by Chris Garratt and Mick Kidd, which debuted in 1982 and has appeared in the newspaper The Guardian from 1985 onwards (Biff Weekend ran there weekly for 20 years). The comic originated in a series of single-panel postcards before evolving into multi-panel comic strips. It has also been published in the magazine Viz and since 2001 in the magazine of the Rough Guides.
The cartoons are notable for their absurd, ironic, satirical and metafictional edge.
History
Chris Garratt and Mick Kidd met at grammar school in the 1950s and have collaborated on Biff since the mid-1970s. Chris Garratt creates the artwork (a mixture of collage, found images, tracings and original drawings) and Mick Kidd is responsible for the text. Kidd lives in London and Garratt in the Scilly Isles. They have created their strips and other artwork over the last 30 years by means of phone, post, email and occasional meetings.
In 2007 Chris Garratt introduced a retrospective of Biff work in these terms:
Vertraut geleitet an den fremden Ort, ließ ich manches zurück, und bewegte mich fort. Ein Stück von dort war ein unbekanntes Ziel, das ich so nicht verfolgte, wie in einem Spiel waren die Regeln verschwommen, es gab nichts zu bekommen, es gab nichts zu gewinnen, ich ließ mich einfach spinnen, die Zeit verrinnen und sah mir nur zu, wie mir Fühler wuchsen, deren Grund warst du. Offen und heimlich, aufrecht und peinlich war der Zufall geplant, entstand so ein Land, das wir oft verließen, öfter aufeinander stießen, es bei Ahnungen beließen, die uns neues verhießen, deine Gedanken, die konnten nicht klärn, wer gewinnt. Unser Traum fand die Worte nicht, die er verdient, doch fand die Neugier ihren eigenen Lohn, und bahnte sich Wege im Flüsterton. Wie alles begann, kommt mir dann und wann in den Sinn, über tausend Mauern führte doch mein Gang zu dir hin. Was alles geschah, glänzt wieder wie Gold, Fortsetzung folgt. Wir liefen los nebeneinander einen schier endlosen Weg, im Wald der Stille die Hoffnung gesät und gespäht, worin sich der andre verrät, wohin der Pfad geht, wie die Prüfung gerät. Kühne Gefühle, tanzten nun auf der Bühne, im Keller der Zweisamkeit wurde es heller, so hell, dass das Augenlicht schreckte, versteckte Signale, die ich dir zum Leuchtfeuer erweckte. Verwebte Erwartung gesteigert, erweitert die Sinne, war uns an der Stelle der Schwelle der Zutritt verweigert, der Anfang vom Ende das Ende vom Ende und mit ihm die Wende. Wie alles begann, kommt mir dann und wann in den Sinn, über tausend Mauern führte doch mein Gang zu dir hin. Was alles geschah, glänzt wieder wie Gold, Fortsetzung folgt Die Sinne, die wurden uns neu geboren, verborgene Dinge verborgen geborgen. Der Morgen danach war ein Morgen davor, ein Endpunkt wurde zum glänzenden Tor. Die Eindrücke füllten uns unsere Seelen, verhüllte Gefühle warn nun anzusehen, freizügig zu stehlen aus unendlichem Schatz - unsre Heimat nahm Platz.
OK, so this Greek wrestler named Milo, who lived around the sixth century B.C., was a real stud. The Greeks were ahead of the times (actually not saying much, it being 500 B.C.) when it came to physical culture and athletics ... .
I girded my loins and headed out the door. I’m going to pause here for a moment. I have used that idiom countless times over the years but in truth I have no idea the origin. I just like the phrase because of the double-entendre possibilities.
Nobody who watched the Proteas beat England at Lord’s back in 2012 will ever forget it. It was a battle of the heavyweights ...There are few people that want the Proteas to shine on the global stage more than “Biff” ... It’s amazing.
A Polish ex-soldier returns to his home town and takes on local gangsters in an exhausting barrage of violence in humourless action film ... The dog – a veteran of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan – is called Tiny (the name is ironic, she’s huge) ... ....
Only a mother could understand Margret’s love and devotion to her son. And Margret knew a fair amount about devotion. Only 30 years earlier, before she became a wife and mother, Margret was married to the church ...Two daughters followed ... .
“I thought God hated me.”. It was startling to hear a middle-aged, successful educator say those words ... No one from Lee County called Randall Swartz “Randy.”. They called him “Gimp,” “Porky” and worse ... .
“All married men take one step forward.”. About half of the several-dozen men standing in line stepped up. For my father, this was unfortunate. The foreman of Brockton Ice And Coal, Mr ... “But everyone I knew was hungry.” ... .
Tim Albin, 59, had three 10-win seasons over the past three years as Ohio’s head football coach. His most recent team won the 2024 MAC championship ... .
We named the ski run after a condition of my groin. Several years ago, just before Christmas, I noticed a lump in my gut. Since my health insurance only covered care by a left-handed doctor named Earl, I needed to head to Denver to find one ... .
Following two MACCoach of the Year Awards in the past three seasons and a blowout conference championship victory Saturday, 59-year-old Tim Albin will take the reins at Charlotte following Biff Poggi’s dismissal ....
The Pantagraph
15 Dec 2024
The Pantagraph
15 Dec 2024