Trying To Identify An Old Comic Strip

Trying To Identify An Old Comic Strip

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Doofus

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28,469 posts

180 months

Tuesday 19th July 2016
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Disclaimer: What follows is going to make me sound like a bit of a pervert, and whilst I might be such, that is not what this is about.

I am trying to identify a comic strip. Written in the fifties or sixties, and I don't know if it ever appeared in a newspaper - I remember it from one or two paperback compilations.

The artwork is in the style of Dan DeCarlo's early work, but many (most? all?) of the cartoons are about a French woman who I vaguely recall is named Clementine or Valentine, but might not be. Essentially, all the men she dates try to get her into the sack. She's often naked (wrapped in a towel coming out of the shower, or posing as an artist's model and suchlike), and acts the innocent, although I suspect she's a bit of a bike.

I have Googled the heck out of it, and got nowhere. It may even be DeCarlo but I'm wondering if anyone else has any ideas of where to look.

Doofus

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28,469 posts

180 months

Tuesday 19th July 2016
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Isn't it always the way?

I've been looking for this strip for about three years, on and off. As soon as I ask somebody else for help, I bloody find it myself!

She is called Clementine, and she's by Jean Bellus.

As you were...

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Roy Lime

594 posts

139 months

Tuesday 19th July 2016
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And now you're out as a cartoon perv for no good reason.

laugh

Doofus

Original Poster:

28,469 posts

180 months

Tuesday 19th July 2016
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Roy Lime said:
And now you're out as a cartoon perv for no good reason.

laugh
i know whistle

Maybe I should just delete my first post before anyone quotes it...

Sebring440

2,316 posts

103 months

Tuesday 19th July 2016
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Are you going to use these characters in your next novel? Sounds intriguing. Have you got any links to the original artwork?

Doofus

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28,469 posts

180 months

Tuesday 19th July 2016
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Sebring440 said:
Are you going to use these characters in your next novel? Sounds intriguing. Have you got any links to the original artwork?
I think it was a creative writing exercise that made me think of this cartoon, although I don't remember why exactly. No intention to use the characters, it was just one of those niggling things that kept bothering me, and I couldn't remember enough to allow me to move beyond it. I thought perhaps PH could help, because there are plenty of people on here with some obscure interests - although in this case, it appears to be me...

No direct links, but Googling will show you some of the cartoons.

perdu

4,885 posts

206 months

Tuesday 19th July 2016
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Doofus said:
Roy Lime said:
And now you're out as a cartoon perv for no good reason.

laugh
i know whistle

Maybe I should just delete my first post before anyone quotes it...
Aw it's not so bad

Now you have me hooked on her too

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