Heroes and heroines on screen and in print

We are just heading into a New Year here where we're talking through what makes me Me after finishing off things like my Christmas selection box and reading a Ben 10 Annual.

You may not of thought it but big bold super heroes were a thing I followed in tv cartoon series, comic books and looked up to which would include things like Batman, Superman and his child version Superboy depicted and cowboys like Roy Rogers and his horse, Trigger.

That was added to later on by things such as Thundercats and Transformers.

That said it wasn't all like that which is really where what would be stereotypically boyish moved out by the standards of the era such as having a love of The Moomins.

Shows like Bagpuss, the stories narrated by Bagpuss "a saggy, old cloth cat, baggy, and a bit loose at the seams" really connected emotionally.

Bagpuss and his friends are toys in a turn of the century shop for `found things'. When young Emily, pictured, brings them a new object, the toys come to life to work out what the strange new thing could possibly be.

It is Emily that runs the shop, finds things to be repaired, and wakes Bagpuss up so that he can identify and repair the latest thing with his friends.

Emily just loved him in all his sagginess as indeed I would too apart from just loving her dresses and that series feminine but not too soppy feel was something that gave me much comfort in 1974/5.