Rupert Bear Rupert Bear Rupert Bear is a children's comic strip character created by the English artist Mary Tourtel and first appearing in the "Daily Express" newspaper on 8 November 1920. Rupert's initial purpose was to win sales from the rival "Daily Mail" and "Daily Mirror". In 1935, the mantle of Rupert artist and storyteller was taken over by Alfred Bestall, who was previously an illustrator for "Punch" and other glossy magazines. Bestall proved to be successful in the field of children's literature and worked on Rupert stories and artwork into his 90s. More recently, various other artists and writers have continued
Two Years Before the Mast us of Melville” and “other passages seem to anticipate him”. (Melville, born in 1819, was exactly four years Dana's junior, and returned from his first tour as a seaman when "Two Years Before the Mast" was first published in 1840): The following description of the English sailor, Bill Jackson, has literary similarities to Melville's "Billy Budd": Writes Morris, "Dana is something more of a poet than either he or his contemporaries were aware; and that his ignorance of this gift was a loss to him as well as to us." With the onset of the 1849 California Gold Rush, Dana's