{"id":11176,"date":"2024-02-01T06:34:34","date_gmt":"2024-02-01T05:34:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/?p=11176"},"modified":"2024-02-01T06:34:34","modified_gmt":"2024-02-01T05:34:34","slug":"paul-williams-drakes-7-cartoon-1980","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/paul-williams-drakes-7-cartoon-1980\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Williams-Drake&#8217;s 7 Cartoon: 1980"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/files\/2023\/11\/Drakes-7.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2148\" height=\"948\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11181\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/files\/2023\/11\/Drakes-7.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>Starting on 26 January 1979 in edition 506 of Felix the student newspaper, was Drake&#8217;s 7. The cartoon strip was the creation of Physics student Paul Williams. The first part in the Drake&#8217;s 7 story is seen above. He won a competition for his efforts and also had the entire story reprinted in a stand-alone book available for 30p from the Felix office. He also created materials for the Phoenix magazine at Imperial.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Following his success in the competition he came into the TV Studio and chatted to STOIC&#8217;s Paul Johnson.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Paul Williams Drake&#039;s 7 Cartoon Interview: 1980\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SRLDQSDFtYA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Colin Grimshaw February 2024<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drake&#8217;s 7 became a popular cartoon created by Physics student Paul Williams. He won a competition for his work and spoke to Paul Johnson from STOIC about his success.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3921,80,82],"tags":[5019,89],"class_list":["post-11176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-update","category-people","category-student-life","tag-felix","tag-students"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11176"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11289,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11176\/revisions\/11289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}