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1 de sept. de 1981 · Gentleman Jim tells the story of a council toilet attendant who just can't seem to get ahead and dreams of a better life. Thwarted by a lack of qualifications, and slighted by virtually every authority figure he encounters, Jim finally decides to become a highwayman.
5 de sept. de 2023 · James John Corbett, often referred to as “Gentleman Jim,” never cared much for the brutish nature of the sport of boxing. In fact, even before the future champion ever learned to box, his natural instinct in school-yard fights at the age of twelve was to stick and move.
Gentleman Jim starts five years before that match, at a time when boxing was illegal. After a bareknuckle contest is broken up by the police, all manner of society find themselves rubbing shoulders in jail, including spectators Judge Geary and bank teller James Corbett.
A graphic novel classic from one of the world's best-known cartoonists "Gentleman Jim" is the story of Jim Bloggs, an imaginative toilet cleaner who, dissatisfied with his station in...
Our hapless hero finds out that life isn't quite that simple, when he cobbles together a Highwayman outfit and sets off on a series of comic misadventures. Scatological humour aside (and there's more than a whiff of that), there are also moments of fine gentle humour in this short graphic novel.
22 de ene. de 2008 · At a scant 32 pages, GENTLEMAN JIM is a short yet delightful bit of whimsy that wouldn’t be inappropriate for children but has enough smart edginess underlying its story that mark it as a sweet story for adult dreamers.
26 de ago. de 2021 · Errol Flynn as James J. Corbett, working his way from the San Francisco slums to the heavyweight championship of the world, driven by the mysterious inner exigencies that mark Raoul Walsh’s...
