The final tally for the PET-ition is 1,129. Thank you to all British citizens and residents who signed.
This petition is now closed, as its deadline has passed.
We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to recommend a Damehood for Petula Clark – which is long overdue.
Submitted by Irene Seaton – Deadline to sign up by: 12 March 2008 – Signatures: 1,129
3 comments March 12th, 2008
Dave Stevens, born mere weeks before me, has died of leukemia. Dave was a comic book artist. A very good one. In fact, he was so good he was able to stop drawing comic books and instead concentrate on covers, pin-ups, and portfolios. Sadly, in his case, the good really did die young.
Stevens took an idealized vision of Bettie Page, the iconic 50’s “underwear model,” and paired her with a version of the character introduced in a 1949 Republic movie serial called King of the Rocketmen. With better art than story, and with installments sometimes years apart, Stevens had a cult hit on his hands, with a fan following that was big enough for it to be picked up by Disney and turned into a movie. Unfortunately, Disney was the wrong studio at the wrong time to make The Rocketeer, and the movie didn’t take off. I’ve spliced together a couple of scenes from The Rocketeer, preceded by its inspiration, King of the Rocketmen, which may be familiar to some of you in its later incarnation, Commando Cody.
5 comments March 12th, 2008