Day 24 of Advent, and who better to fill this last spot than Dennis the Menace. 2 strips here from creator Davey Law, and one from David Sutherland.
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Day 23 of Advent, and time for Minnie the Minx. Here’s 3 strips, the first 2 by her creator Leo Baxendale, the 3rd by her longest serving artist Jim Petrie who drew the strip from 1962 to 2001
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Day 22 of Advent, and perhaps a lesser known strip, but chosen because it was always one of my favourites. From Whizzer and Chips, debuting in 1981, Store Wars drawn mainly by Jim Watson
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Day 21 of advent, and today it’s Roger the Dodger. Debuted in 1953 drawn by Ken Reid, and there’s been many different artists over the years, so there’s 2 posts for todays entry
Examples here from 1959 by Gordon Bell
1975 by Tom Lavery
1976 by Frank McDiarmid
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Day 20 of advent, and always a fave character in Whizzer and Chips (and later Buster) was Sweet Tooth. Drawn by Trevor Metcalf
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Day 19 of advent, and back to the Beano for another adventure strip, Billy the Cat.
2 examples here, the first by original artist David Sutherland, the second by Sandy Calder.
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Day 18 of Advent, and for a little change of pace we go back to Buster and one of the longer running Adventure serial strips which they had a lot of in the 60s and 70s.
Galaxus, the thing from outer space ran from 66 to 74, drawn by Solano Lopez
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Day 17 of Advent, and today it’s a classic from the Dandy that I always loved. Winker Watson, as drawn by Eric Roberts.
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Day 16 of Advent, and time for Buster, originally subtitled “Son of Andy Capp”, his strip had many different titles over the years. Here are 3 examples
The first by original artist Bill Titcombe
The second by Angel Nadal Quirch
The third by Reg Parlett
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Day 15 of advent, and let’s go with one of the big stars of uk kids comics…Desperate Dan. Appearing in the very first issue of the Dandy, right through till the last.
Two examples here, the first by original artist Dudley D Watkins, the second by Ken H Harrison
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Day 14 of Advent, and another of the names that was ever present across the IPC titles in the 80s was Terry Bave. Here’s a couple of his Sammy Shrink strips from Whizzer and Chips
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Day 13 of Advent, and today it’s another classic from IPC, Frankie Stein. First appearing in Wow, then later in Shiver and Shake, Monster Fun and Whoopee.
Originally drawn by Ken Reid, as a kid of the 80s it was the Robert Nixon strips which I remember, though this is from 1976
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Day 12 of Advent, and a classic from the pages of The Beezer (and later the Beano)…The Numskulls. A couple of examples here, the first by original artist Malcolm Judge, the second by 80s artist Tom Lavery
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Day 11 of advent. Yesterday I posted a Sweeney Toddler strip drawn by Tom Paterson, but it was originally created by Leo Baxendale. In a relatively short stint at DC Thomson lasting about a decade, he created some of their most notable characters including “The Bash Street Kids”
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Day 10 of Advent, and being an 80s kid, one of the artists with the most distinct style was Tom Paterson, and the strip I associate him with the most - “Sweeney Toddler” who appeared across multiple IPC titles “Shiver and Shake”, “Whoopee”, “Whizzer and Chips” and “Buster”
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Day 9 of Advent, and the first repeated artist. With good reason though, Dudley D Watkins is one of the most notable. Here with one of his weekly strips for the newspaper “The Sunday Post”, two examples of the Broons (one early, one later showing the evolution of his artwork)
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Day 8 of Advent and after Jumbo yesterday let’s stick with the adventure strips, but move over to IPC and Buster. Probably the best of theirs was “The Leopard from Lime Street”, this example from 1979
Written by Tom Tully
Art by Mike Western
Inked by Eric Bradbury
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Day 7 of advent, and back to the Beano, where we have “General Jumbo”, one of (and destined to be the last of) the great Adventure Strips. Drawn originally by Paddy Brennan.
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Day 6 of Advent, and reading my comics as a kid of the 80s, one of the names that appeared on a number of strips from the IPC stable was Sid Burgon. Here’s one of his most enduring Characters from Whizzer & Chips…Joker
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Day 5 of advent, and for today’s strip I’ve gone for a lesser known character whose adventures I always enjoyed in the old annuals we had. Jack Silver was an alien boy who lived with his friend on earth & together they fought his arch enemy Captain Zapp. Drawn by Bill Holroyd
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Day 4 of Advent. Let’s have a strip from one of the legends of British Comics, Ken Reid. He was the artist for many great strips, but one of his best was Faceache.
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Day 3 of Advent, and lets go with one of the big hitters, Beryl the Peril. Drawn originally by Davey Law (who also originated Dennis the Menace) in the very first issue of The Topper, later transferring to the Dandy.
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Day 2 of advent, and the Fleetway/IPC comics had a lot of strips based around the theme of 2 opposing types (“the Goodies & The Baddies” “Upper Crusts & Lazy Loafers” “Tough Nut & Softy Centre”) but the best and most enduring was “Ivor Lott and Tony Broke” by artist Reg Parlett
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I’m enjoying reading through old Christmas comics, so thought I’d post a strip each day till Xmas.
Let’s start with Ginger, from the Beezer. Drawn originally by Dudley D Watkins, he’s basically an English version of his Sunday Post star Oor Wullie. This strip is from 1956.
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