The anniversary was also celebrated with a 40-page issue ( instead of 32 pages ; the 60th birthday issue also had extra pages, 48 instead of 24 ) guest edited by Wallace and Gromit creator Nick Park, price £ 1. 50 ( not 99p ) and an issue of Classics from the Comics devoted to the Beano.

* 1958 – Nick Park, British filmmaker and animator

The success of Miyazaki's films has invited comparisons with American animator Walt Disney, British animator Nick Park and Robert Zemeckis.

Another individual who found fame in clay animation is Nick Park, who created the characters Wallace and Gromit.

Wallace and Gromit are the main characters in a British series consisting of four animated short films and a feature-length film by Nick Park of Aardman Animations.

The first short film, A Grand Day Out, was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film, but lost to Creature Comforts, another animated creation of Nick Park.

Most of Wallace's inventions look not unlike the designs of W. Heath Robinson and Rube Goldberg, and Nick Park has said of Wallace that all his inventions are designed around the principle of using a sledgehammer to crack a nut.

Nick Park says: " We are a nation of dog-lovers and so many people have said: ' My dog looks at me just like Gromit does!

While not overtly setting the series in any particular town, Nick Park had previously hinted that its milieu was inspired by thoughts of 1950s Wigan, reinforced by an A-Z Wigan being displayed on Wallace's Anti-Pesto van in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit.

Nick Park guest-edited the 70th birthday issue of The Beano weekly, and so this issue contained numerous Wallace & Gromit references.

Nick Park also made a voice cameo as himself in the same episode.

In December 2010, while appearing on Desert Island Discs, Nick Park announced that he was working with Pleasure Beach Blackpool to build a theme park ride based on the characters.

Animator Nick Park chose it solely because it had a good name that would be interesting to animate, unaware of the company's financial difficulties.

Early festivals included work by John Lasseter, Nick Park, Mike Judge, and Craig McCracken.

The band's first single, a cover of The Kinks song " Stop Your Sobbing " ( produced by Nick Lowe and recorded at the July Regents Park sessions ) was released in January 1979 and gained critical attention.

Nicholas Wulstan " Nick " Park, CBE ( born 6 December 1958 ) is an

Another jar on the top shelf reads " Nick Park ".

A Close Shave is a 1995 British animated short film directed by Nick Park at Aardman Animations in Bristol, featuring his characters Wallace and Gromit.

* They appear in issue 15 of Nick Fury Agent of SHIELD, Volume 1 ( 1969 ), apparently performing " Superbird " and " Not So Sweet Martha Lorraine " at a concert in Central Park.

It was created by Nick Park and Aardman Animations.

The original Creature Comforts short film was five minutes long and was conceived and directed by Nick Park and produced by Aardman Animations featuring the voices of British non-actors in the same vein as the " man on the street " Vox Pop interviews.

The film won Nick Park the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film in 1990.

In 1990 Nick Park worked with Phil Rylance and Paul Cardwell to develop a series of British television advertisements for the Electricity Board's " Heat Electric " campaign.

* Director: Nick Park

Other series writers included Private Eye editor and Have I Got News For You stalwart Ian Hislop, Press Gang creator and Doctor Who showrunner Steven Moffat, award-winning children's author Anthony Horowitz, Nick Newman and John O ' Farrell.

Wallace and Gromit creator and four time Academy Award winning animator Nick Park directed Chicken Run ( 2000 ) and Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit ( 2005 ).

* Nick Park, animator, creator of Wallace and Gromit and Oscar winner.

As the issue was edited by Nick Park ( creator of Wallace and Gromit ), animals in the zoo could be seen that bore a close resemblance to that of his 1989 short film, Creature Comforts.

World in Action employed many leading journalists, among them John Pilger ; Michael Parkinson ; Gordon Burns ; Rob Rohrer ; Nick Davies, Ed Vulliamy and David Leigh of The Guardian ; Alasdair Palmer of the Sunday Telegraph ; John Ware, BBC Panoramas leading investigative reporter ; Anthony Wilson, whose second career as a music impresario was immortalised in the feature film 24 Hour Party People ; Michael Gillard, creator of the Slicker business pages in the satirical magazine Private Eye ; Donal MacIntyre ; the writer Mark Hollingsworth ; Quentin McDermott, since 1999 a leading investigative reporter for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation ; Tony Watson, editor of the Yorkshire Post for 13 years and editor-in-chief of the Press Association from December 2006 ; and Andrew Jennings, author of Lords of the Rings, who has campaigned vigorously for more than a decade against corruption in international sport.

Despite his nearly 37 years in Last Of The Summer Wine, this is far from the main focus of the book, in which Sallis also recounts the early era of his relationship with Wallace and Gromit creator Nick Park when it took six years for A Grand Day Out to be completed.

The Behemoth is a video game development company that was created in 2003 by John Baez, artist Dan Paladin ( aka Synj ), and programmers Tom Fulp ( the creator of the popular Newgrounds Flash website ), Brandon LaCava, and Nick Dryburgh.

* Nick Park CBE, inventor and creator of plasticine stop motion characters Wallace and Gromit

He is the creator of characters such as Máximo Chambónez, Ferrilo, Nick Obre, and Alaraco, but his most famous work is Mampato, a character first developed, briefly, by Eduardo Armstrong and Óscar Vega ; Lobos then wrote and illustrated his episodes from 1968 to 1978.

Nick Huggett argues that Zeno is begging the question when he says that objects that occupy the same space as they do at rest must be at rest.

After Michael explains that he, Steven and Nick are going to Vietnam, the Green Beret raises his glass and says " fuck it " to everyone's shock and amazement.

In an interview with Anil Prasad in Guitar Player, SB drummer and lead vocalist and songwriter Nick D ' Virgilio says that “ From the very beginning, Spock's Beard has been a songwriting-based progressive rock band.

In Stephen King's Danse Macabre, King ( who admits to being more of a fan of The Outer Limits and Thriller ) wrongly says the episode stars William Shatner instead of Everett Sloane ( although Shatner does play a character battling a fortune telling machine in " Nick of Time ").

Nick McCabe says " The Verve seems to be on holiday " on his MySpace page.

* In Ernest Hemingway's short story A Way You'll Never Be, Captain Paravicini says to Nick, the protagonist who is suffering from psychological instability following a head wound, " I said it should have been trepanned.

" In the Henry Willson date pool ", the author says, " Nick Adams was one client, among many, who glommed on to Natalie Wood to get his picture taken.

Catherine says she hates children and Nick then suggests their future will then just involve sex.

A Nick at Nite ad for Mister Ed says he's no " My Little Pony ".

In the 1974 James Bond film The Man With the Golden Gun, villain Francisco Scaramanga says of his manservant Nick Nack, " He's a Cordon Bleu.

Nick says, " Alex died for most of us a long time ago ," but Sam disagrees and leaves.

) One theory brought forth as to why the Tin Woodman does not die is discussed in Edward Einhorn's book " Paradox in Oz ", where King Oz says that the Tin Woodman ( then Nick Chopper ) would have died were it not for his time magic.

Nick then says that Jimmy will take them to the aliens, and he'll take it from there.

2 says his first work as announcer was on the daytime version of Password ); three years later, he began a long association with Mark Goodson-Bill Todman Productions, where he worked on Beat the Clock as its announcer from 1969 to 1972 ; after the departure of the show's host, Jack Narz, Wood then took over as host of Beat the Clock, with Nick Holenreich serving as announcer.

Nick Rivers ( Val Kilmer ) and Hillary Flammond ( Lucy Gutteridge ) break the fourth wall after Hillary says, " It all sounds like some bad movie ".

The author of The Dark Stuff, Nick Kent, says of their music, " Maybe we have their out-of-the-mainstreamness to thank for a sound that is still unique -- as sensual as a sleepwalker's wet dream.

Upon being told that it's Nick Buoniconti, the passerby says, " No, that's not it.

In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, chapter III, page 45, Nick encounters " The Owl Eyed Man ," who says of Gatsby " This fella's a regular Belasco ," in reference to his giant library.

Jill arrives at Mauer Palast Hotel in Berlin and says goodbye to Nick, the taxi driver.

The love of his life, Betty Jo Bialosky, has numerous aliases, but Nick says " everyone knew her as Nancy.

* In the film Hot Fuzz, police officer Danny Butterman ( played by Nick Frost ) says " By the power of Grayskull!

Writing on his website about Sal Mineo, Gilmore says of Dean's other co-stars in Rebel Without A Cause that Dean avoided both Nick Adams and Natalie Wood and that " once off the set, he went out of his way to go in the opposite direction.

And Peter says he's forgiven Leanne for Nick, but in his heart, it still niggles him.