ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the continuing representation of colonialist stereotypes and the colonised "Other" in British comic books. It argues that from the 1950s to their demise in the early 1990s traditional British weekly adventure comic books, such as the Eagle, Hotspur and Victor, contained stories that used exotic locations and representations of colonialist stereotypes, both visual and textual, to shape narrative structure. Comic books have become more innovative in terms of the subject matter and the forms of representation used, but the "Other" is still a powerful cultural trope within the medium and continues to be used to represent an outmoded view of Britain and its imperial past. These stereotypes did then transform as comic books dealt with more adult themes such as sex. Both male and female representations of the eroticised Oriental emerged as new forms of representations of the "Other" in British comic books.
