| has gloss | eng: Captain Biplane is one of the more enigmatic creations of artists of the 1960s. It was a comic strip that was exhibited but never published. It was the creation of Bib Edwards, who went on to illustrate the Dodo childrens books. Bib worked on the project for twelve years from the mid-sixties, and it was finally exhibited in art galleries in East Anglia UK. and once described by a reviewer as A cross between Roy Lichtenstein and The Beano.' The plot is a meandering battle between a First-world-war flying ace improbably battling a range of fantastic alien creatures flying space-ships easily identifiable as household objects such as Vacuum cleaners, soap bottles, and mowing machines. It is in full colour and breathtaking in their imagination and scope. |
