HERE, HAVE SOME GINGER...

Copyright D.C. THOMSON & Co., Ltd

GINGER from The BEEZER comic always struck me as the 'English' equivalent of Oor WULLIE from The Sunday Post.  Both were published by D.C. Thomson and drawn by DUDLEY DEXTER WATKINS, but whereas Wullie was distinctly Scottish, Ginger wasn't geographically-confined to any one area of Britain.

Dudley D. Watkins was one of those artists that made drawing look easy, pencilling out 'sausage' figures and inking in the detail as he went along - essentially doing the actual drawing with a pen or brush.  He was a complete natural, and no artist since has drawn any of his strips with the same skill, style or verve as he himself, with the only exceptions being the late CHARLES GRIGG and the mighty KEN H. HARRISON.

However, don't take my word for it.  Here are four Ginger strips drawn by D.D. Watkins to demonstrate precisely what I'm talking about.  Superb stuff indeed! Enjoy!

BABE Of The DAY - HEATHER THOMAS...

I'm pretty sure this is HEATHER

THOMAS, but it also looks a little like

HEATHER LOCKLEAR, who many folk

were always mixing up back in the '80s.  HT

or HL?  Which of the tempting two do you

 think it is?  Have your say now!