But I can't. Actually I got the idea from the Puzzle Pages of a tatty old copy of "Pif", a French comic book. If you want details, it was #8 ... it's the one up there. Pif is quite a famous French comic character, and there are loads of others. There's Lucky Luke, whose horse plays chess with him after a long and tiring day, and usually beats him too. There's Gaston.... well, you get the idea.
The Hispanic world has loads as well, with Mafalda being totally brilliant..and available in French etc.
BUT ...when you google " Welsh Cartoon Characters" you get hardly anything except Superted and Fireman Sam and Sali Mali .... but it hasn't got anything like those long-standing characters we all remember from the Beano and the Dandy and Dan Dare etc,Korky the Kat, Dennis the Menace, Billy Bunter, Colonel Blink ( The Short-Sighted Gink).... not to mention the Scottish stuff like "The Broons" and "Our Willie" ... a whole source of fun and delight for Welsh speakers and learners just isn't there.
It's that blasted " Blanket of English" again, that's stretched tight over the Welsh like a suffocating lid on a coffin. Surely there must have been something ? If you know of any Welsh-language cartoon strips/characters, please let me know and I will put them on here. You can do it as a comment down there or to this blog's very own email ...
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And now, the iconic, groundbreaking Datblygu with their lovely song " O Dan Bysiau" .... one of the buses in this song apparently ran over and killed Colonel Blink ( The Short-Sighted Gink) .... it's amazing how everything is connected to everything else....