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I felt as I had put a little post up about Andy Sparrow’s Bloodrunners I should also mention his predecessor Orgi by Paul Sample.  Paul sample had a very different style in artistic style and content, but I enjoyed many an hour reading Ogri strips, just as I did reading the magazine “Bike” that they were in.

Paul sample created the character in the 60′s but he gained fame from 1972 onwards when he was in Bike magazine. Orgi was a kind of classic english biker and rode a “Norvin” which was a bike of period made from a Norton feather-bed frame and a Vincent engine.   he had a dog named “kickstart” and an idiot mate named Malcolm who was always doing something stupid.

There are books available of his strips and I believe they have now returned to Bike magazine [You don't very often see the English magazine Bike for sale here in NZ] as a regular feature I also noticed the titles to a motorcycle TV show I watched the other day were done by Paul sample using Ogri.

I thought I should write a bit about this guy on the corner of my Banner, his name is “Jack Shit”

He is the brain child of an artist named Andy Sparrow.

You can see more of Andy’s artwork over at his website http://www.bloodrunners.co.uk/blood/index.htm

The Bloodrunners series was published in Bike magazine as they tried to migrate away from Paul Sample’s Ogri, I think the Mag thought it was an update on Ogri but the series was pretty short lived as unlike myself most readers obviously didn’t enjoy the strip.

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If you have a look here

http://www.bloodrunners.com/various/press-clippings/bikemagArticle-aug2008.htm

you can ready Andy’s words on the demise of Bloodrunners which is not as I had believed

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Lom and his bike Hoover were the stars of the show but Jack Shit was the guy that for some reason really captured my imagination and I even painted a huge version of this picture on the wall of one of the flats I lived in with Nigel Hamilton when I first left home.

If you want to check out the series they are on the website

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Andy has a new strip based on this graphic look and feel, the star is a Chick, still think Jack is better myself  but go check it out for yourself and see what you think :)

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