Sir Bagby | |
Author: | "R & B Hackney" (Rick Hackney and Bill Hackney) |
Status: | Concluded Daily & Sunday |
First: | 1957 |
Last: | 1967 |
Syndicate: | Bell McClure Syndicate |
Genre: | Humor |
Sir Bagby was an American daily strip created by brothers Rick Hackney and Bill Hackney, who signed the strip "R & B Hackney." The setting was a medieval world filled with anachronisms and puns. (In that, it resembled Jack Kent's King Aroo, distributed by the same syndicate.) The strip ran in a small number of US newspapers from 1957 to 1967, as well as in The Canberra Times from 1960 to 1966.[1] In 2022, Rick Norwood, editor of Comics Revue, purchased the copyright to Sir Bagby, so he could keep the strip in print.
The main characters are Sir Bagby, a knight, King Filbert I, II ("King Filbert I was my father. He built the business up so I decided to keep the name."), a wizard named Snerk, a jester named Solly, a playwright named Faro, and his assistant, Billingsgate.
The only reprints of the strip have been in Comics Revue.