St Trinian's School on their way to and from school; they originally inspired his cartoons and characters. The Perse School for Girls' Archive area holds several original St Trinian's books, given to the school by Ronald Searle. He also based the school partly on the former Cambridgeshire High School for Girls (now Long Road Sixth Form College). In the 1950s, a series of "St Trinian"s comedy films was made, featuring well-known British actors, including Alastair Sim (in drag as the headmistress, and also playing her brother); George Cole as spiv "Flash Harry", Joyce Grenfell as Sgt Ruby Gates, a beleaguered policewoman; and Richard
Creator ownership in comics Tundra went bankrupt in 1993. In 1992 a number of popular Marvel artists formed their own company, Image Comics, which would serve as a prominent example of creator-owned comics publishing. Propelled by star power and upset that they did not own the popular characters they created for Marvel, several illustrators, including the "X-Men"’s Jim Lee, "The New Mutants/X-Force"’s Rob Liefeld, and "Spider-Man"’s Todd McFarlane formed Image, an umbrella label under which several autonomous, creator-owned companies existed. Image properties, such as "WildC.A.T.s", "Gen¹³", "Witchblade" and especially McFarlane’s "Spawn" provided brisk competition for long-standing superheroes. Many popular creators followed Image's lead and