Dick Bogie‘s humorous tour de force, ‘The Great British Seaside’, is in the tradition of the great British seaside postcard. Little donkeys try to give rides to oversized women, swimming costumes become mysteriously attached to the ends of fishing lines dangled by men on the end of the pier; and, inevitably, dogs run amok, scattering both sandcastles and sunbathers far and wide. There’s danger in the fairground, too, as the sign next to the ferris wheel boasts of its being ‘not the biggest, but the fastest’, and people are flung off into the path of ravenous seagulls and oncoming hang-gliders.
Only at a Dick Bogie seaside does it fail to rain all week, but then who needs slippery pavements? In a Dick Bogie cartoon life is dangerous enough already.