<story><title>The name’s Ford, Alan Ford: how an Italian comic book spy became a Yugoslav hero</title><url>https://www.calvertjournal.com/articles/show/12465/alan-ford-comic-books-yugoslavia</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>NikolaNovak</author><text>Read them as a kid; did not enjoy illustrations at the time because everything was so... trashy, crappy, make-shift -- which as an adult I realize was exactly the point :)&lt;p&gt;It also caused UNTOLD confusion to my childhood mind. It was translated into our language, but they left the honorific &amp;quot;Sir&amp;quot; untranslated, as-is.&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Sir&amp;quot; means &amp;quot;Cheese&amp;quot; in my language... :O&lt;p&gt;As far as I was concerned for several years, whenever the characters in the comic spoke to anybody of authority, they would speak like:&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Cheese Bob, please Cheese, don&amp;#x27;t beat us up Cheese!&amp;quot;
&amp;quot;Cheese YES Cheese!&amp;quot;
&amp;quot;I&amp;#x27;m terribly sorry Cheese. It will not happen again Cheese!&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;... honestly, I missed that dose of surrealism when I put 2 and 2 together eventually :-D</text></comment>
<story><title>The name’s Ford, Alan Ford: how an Italian comic book spy became a Yugoslav hero</title><url>https://www.calvertjournal.com/articles/show/12465/alan-ford-comic-books-yugoslavia</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>boomskats</author><text>Ha! My dad, to this day, makes Alan Ford references on a regular basis. I&amp;#x27;m pretty sure he even used to make those same references when talking to his native British colleagues, using them to describe life in the former Yugoslavia &amp;amp; assuming they&amp;#x27;d read the same comics as kids.&lt;p&gt;What&amp;#x27;s funny is that at one point, I realised I reference random episodes of South Park in conversation in exactly the same way (to people who mostly have no idea what I&amp;#x27;m talking about). Those comics must have been pretty on point.</text></comment>