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Y'know, I no longer recall if I had the 1971 WHIZZER & CHIPS Annual when it was first published, but it's certainly an Annual I would've wanted. Never mind, I've got it now and that's what counts. Below is the first strip in the book.
It's a sheer joy to look at pages and be able see what's happening at a glance, unlike some of the eye-straining technicolour vomit that hurts your brain appearing in some modern 'comics'. What are they thinking? Having said that, there's a cartoonist by the name of LAURA HOWELL who draws LITTLE PLUM in The BEANO whose style is quite nice.
Dunno if Plum still appears at the moment, but we're not here to talk about DCT periodicals anyway. So let's focus on W&C and enjoy SID'S SNAKE together.
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| Art by MIKE LACEY - I think |
Lovely rich colours aren't they. Tell me Kid, we hear so much of the artists but did they script as well? Clearly some did but all of them?
ReplyDeleteFun fact: That same cover was used for last year's The Best of Whizzer and Chips Annual, which Sainsbury's were selling. That same strip was in it too!
ReplyDeleteI haven't seen Laura Howell's Little Plum, but Hunt Emerson's Little Plum is highly good indeed.
A few artists wrote their own strips, Chris, but not a lot of them. (Terry Bave and Leo Baxendale are two that spring to mind.) Artists like Ken Reid sometimes embellished the scripts they'd been given, and I believe he wrote some himself.
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I've got that book as well, THB - in fact it's on the blog somewhere. I'd noticed this strip was in it, but this presentation comes from the original Annual. Maybe I was wrong about Laura Howell drawing Plum, but I thought she did. I'll check and correct it if required. (Then get accused of 'editing' my blog - as if it's a crime, eh?)
The most heinous crime of all, ha!
DeleteAs far as I know, Laura Howell does Les Pretend and possibly Ivy The Terrible...
Ta for that, THB. She did draw Plum at one time (I checked), although perhaps I was mistaking Hunt Emerson's pages for hers. I'll have to check. You been buying The Beano lately?
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