Jane (cartoon character)

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Jane is the best known comic book character by the English comic artist Norman Pett . The daily strip with her as the title character, who showed her naked as the first comic heroine, appeared from 1932 to 1959. Her adventures were also filmed several times.

Plot, people and publication

Chrystabel Leighton-Porter posing as Jane in 1944

The focus of the comic, which was initially conceived as a diary and later as an adventure story, is the naive blonde Jane, who in the comics sees herself confronted with the outside world through various mishaps, half-naked or completely undressed. The model for Jane was Pett's wife Mary, who was his model. When Mary Pett decided in the late 1930s that she would no longer be a model for her husband, he chose Chrystabel Leighton-Porter .

The first comic strip, published under the series title Jane's Journal - or the Diary of a Bright Young Thing , appeared in the Daily Mirror on December 5, 1932 . Until 1938, the strips were kept in the form of a diary, with handwritten text between the individual images. In 1938, Pett was assigned copywriter Don Freeman and the comics were transformed into a continuous story adventure comic book. In the course of 1940, Jane's clothing became increasingly sparse, so that she was shown half-naked and finally naked. In 1948, Pett Jane had to hand over to his assistant Michael Hubbard , who continued the series until it ended in 1959.

In 1945 the King Features Syndicate tried to establish Jane in the United States. This attempt was terminated the following year.

The attempt of the Daily Mirror at the beginning of the 1960s to place a successor with the comic strip Jane, daughter of Jane drawn by Alfred Mazure , was ended in 1963.

reception

The adventures around Jane have been filmed several times: in 1949 under the title The Adventures of Jane with Leighton-Porter in the title role, in 1982 as the BBC television series with the title Jane and in 1987 under the title Jane and the Lost City .

Jane was the first comic book hero to be shown undressed. After Jane's clothing became more and more economical, the Daily Mirror was able to post a significant increase in sales. When she was shown completely naked for the first time in 1943, she was credited with the above-average gain of an Allied unit on the front in Burma within a day.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Norman Pett on lfb.it (Italian) , accessed on February 2, 2012
  2. ↑ Christabel-Leighton-Porter www.telegraph.co.uk of December 8, 2000 (English) , accessed February 2, 2012
  3. ↑ Andreas C. Knigge: Sex in comics . Ullstein Verlag, Frankfurt am Main; Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-548-36518-3 , p. 145.
  4. ↑ a b Andreas C. Knigge: Comics . Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag, Reinbek 1996, ISBN 3-499-16519-8 , p. 224.
  5. ↑ Norman Pett on lambiek.net (English) , accessed on February 2, 2012
  6. ^ "Jane" , Time Magazine, August 27, 1945
  7. ↑ "Web Language" , Time Magazine on August 25, 1947
  8. ↑ The Adventures of Jane in the Internet Movie Database , accessed February 2, 2012
  9. ↑ Jane in the Internet Movie Database , accessed February 2, 2012
  10. ↑ Jane and the Lost City in the Internet Movie Database , accessed February 2, 2012
  11. ↑ Tim Pilcher: Erotic Comics - The Best of Two Centuries . Knesebeck Verlag, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-86873-190-3 , p. 44.