Mary Tourtel was created in 1920, at a time when the "Express" was in competition with "The Daily Mail" and its then popular comic strip "Teddy Tail", as well as the strip "Pip, Squeak and Wilfred" in "The Daily Mirror". The then news editor of the "Express", Herbert Tourtel, was approached with the task of producing a new comic strip to rival those of the "Mail" and "Mirror" and immediately thought of his wife Mary, already an established author and artist. Rupert Bear was the result and was first published as a nameless character in a strip titled "Little Lost Bear" on
The Way (Greg Bear) The Way (Greg Bear) The Way is the name of a fictional universe in a trilogy of science fiction novels and one short story by Greg Bear. The first novel was "Eon" (1985), followed by a sequel, "Eternity" and a prequel, "Legacy". It also includes "The Way of All Ghosts", a short story that falls between "Legacy" and "Eon". Within the universe of "The Way", the Thistledown is an asteroid starship built by hollowing out Juno and fitting it with mass-driver (Rail gun) engines and thermonuclear drives. It is built 500 years in the future, as told in Bear's novel,