Sacred Mysteries: The Captain Pugwash of the Vatican Council
The creator of the tremulous pirate saw the Sixties through an improbable cardinal of his own invention 19 December 2020 • 4:10pm John and Priscilla Ryan in his studio with a papier-mâché model of Captain Pugwash made by schoolchildren Credit: Christine Boyd Apart from Captain Pugwash, the most memorable creation of the cartoonist John Ryan was Cardinal Grotti. There were other contenders – Harris Tweed, Extra Special Agent, the bumbling sleuth featured in The Eagle throughout the Fifties, or the villain in Sir Prancelot, Count Otto the Blot, based on an employer of Ryan’s. Cardin...
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