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''Beau Peep'' is a popular British comic strip written by Roger Kettle and illustrated by Andrew Christine. The strip features the misadventures of the eponymous lead character, Beau Peep, an inept and cowardly British man who joins the tough and hardy French Foreign Legion in the deserts of North Africa to escape his terrifying wife Doris back home. There are also numerous surreal supporting characters. ==Origins== ''Beau Peep'' was first published in the launch issue of British newspaper ''The Daily Star'' on 2 November 1978, and is still published in the paper today. Kettle and Christine also produce the popular cowboy strip ''"A Man Called Horace"'' which was featured daily in the ''Daily Mirror'' and ''Daily Record'' until August 1, 2015. This strip was commissioned in 1989 by Mirror Group Newspapers in an attempt to lure the ''Beau Peep'' fan base from the ''Daily Star''. Roger Kettle also scripts ''Andy Capp'' for the ''Daily Mirror''. The strip is drawn by Roger Mahoney. ''Beau Peep'' was originally intended as a parody of ''Beau Geste'', a 1924 adventure novel by British author P. C. Wren, which has itself been adapted for the screen several times, and again parodied even more. However ''Beau Peep'' grew to have a distinctive character and identity in its own right and is perhaps the most famous of these parodies of ''Beau Geste'', still retaining a large fan base.〔http://www.beaupeep.com/〕 〔https://www.lambiek.net/artists/c/christine_andrew.htm〕 On the forum of the official ''Beau Peep'' website, writer Roger Kettle also claims to have been inspired by the American comic strip ''Peanuts'' by Charles M. Schulz, in that like Schulz's creation Charlie Brown, Beau Peep is a "loveable loser." 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Beau Peep」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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