For those of you watching in black and white, Jack the Ripper is the one in grey.
This is the Ten Bells pub in Spitalfields, where several of the Ripper’s victims drank (and the rest) before meeting unfortunate endings involving bits of them being mailed to the local bobbies. They never caught the Ripper, but I bet he was a bit of tearaway.
I love the French name for him, Jacques L’Eventreur. I love all the foreign names for him: Jack lo squartatore (Italian), Viiltäjä-Jack (Finnish), Jack Trbosjek (Croatian), Kuba Rozpruwacz (Polish), Seoc an Reubainnear (Gaelic), Джак Изкормвача (Bulgarian), ג’ק המרטש (Hebrew), Jack Bantha-poodoo (Huttese). Okay, maybe not the last one.
Originally he was known as Jack the Perforator, but the papers didn’t like it. These days, he would probably be called a Tearorist. Oh come on, it’s late, gimme a break here.
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Is it not really spooky going somewhere like that and knowing it’s history?
No, there’s more murders than that every day on every street in england, if you read the papers these days. Pretty much everybody under 22 is a Ripper by the sound of it.
Well it’s early here and I’m LOL! Great drawings.
Hello Pete,
I’m an editor at Ripperologist, a monthly electronic magazine devoted to – you guessed it – Jack the Ripper, his times and crimes. I’d be interested in publishing your sketch above together with any musings on the subject you may come up with. I’m afraid we can’t pay contributors. Ripperologist is produced to professional sdtandards, but the market is limited and its commercial success is accordingly limited. Mind you, we don’t get paid either. Please contact me at the email address indicated above. If you give me your email address I’d be delighted to send you the latest copy of the magazine.
Cheers
Eduardo
Eduardo: thanks for stopping by, sounds very interesting, I’ll send you an email. Cheers!
Barbara: cheers! but seriously, those jokes were pretty lame.