Early 1955 Harold hare by Hugh McNeill Jack and Jill comic

Its fun seeing this early version of Harold Hare..He is more cuter and shorter...Harold Hare is such a great fun character no wonder he got his own comic later on...

Jack and Jill comic 1960 onward centre pages ..The Children who lived in the shoe and Our Village Cherry Green

 By Arnold.

Drawn by Arnold..

Drawn by W. H Booth a wonderful idea of kids trying to paint a moving object...also a nice painting in its own right...

These are great pieces for studying and also trying to find the hidden objects as well..

This feature went on for 7 years and later years was Our Village which had modern children of the 60's in the picture...These are mini masterpieces and would make great jigsaws today...

Jack and Jill's Bert Felstead Fliptail the otter

This is a reprint from Jack and Jill comic 11th April 1981..

I wonder if the story carried on with a big mess in the house caused by those two..

this as a good guess is by Bert Felstead..UPDATE it is http://www.lookandlearn.com/history-images/A008165/Fliptail-the-Otter?img=1&search=Fliptail the Otter&cat=all&bool=phrase

..just love the little animals in the background..oooh this is just so delightful..you could eat it:) it makes me feel very young reading these..

also love the art in Katie Country Mouse..anyone know the artist..couldn't see it at Look and Learn..the style must be similar to another strip..

My favourite Felstead strip (though he wasn't the only one to draw it) was Fliptail the Otter, which not only featured delightful colouring but also included some beautifully realistic wildlife art alongside the more cartoonish characters such as Fliptail himself.

Here's an example taken from my own collection of original art which didn't cost me anything like as much as that Leo page. Of course there are many more pages on display at the excellent Look & Learn site.
Phil Rushton.
http://www.comicsuk.co.uk/Forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=4477

lots more to see here at Look and Learn site..
http://www.lookandlearn.com/if?img=0&search=Fliptail%20the%20Otter&cat=all&bool=phrase

Peter Woolcock's Jack and Jill's Freddie the frog

28th Jan 1961 Jack and Jill




cover art by Hugh McNeill

Nursery titles like HHOP, Playhour, Jack & Jill, Bimbo, Once Upon a Time, etc. had some fantastic free gifts and were amongst the most successful comics ever published; what's more I suspect they would have been the first type of comic most of us read (or at least owned) - in spite of which they are very rarely collected today. The trouble is that adults only tend to retain a handful of impressionistic memories from infancy. To my mind this is a great shame as these titles didn't only contain work by artists such as Bill Ritchie, Hugh McNeill, Ron Embleton and Don Lawrence, whose work is well-known from publications aimed at older readers, but also some equally remarkable art by people who are now all-but forgotten because they specialized in the nursery market throughout their career. One example of the latter group is the amazing Peter Woolcock whom I'd rate alongside Carl Barks and Reg Parlett as a true master of the humorous comic strip - yet wonderful pieces of his original artwork from the 1950s and 1960s can be acquired for next to nothing today!

Here, for instance, are a couple of panels I picked up from the Birmingham International Comics Convention on Saturday for just £1 each:
...To see how phenomenally good he was one only has to look at the skill with which he added the incidental background characters in these enlarged details from the above scenes:

A brilliant artist - one of the very best in fact. IMHO It would be criminally unjust to ignore him just because he only drew for the very young!

- Phil Rushton

Thanks phil for bringing it to our attention..Peter
http://www.comicsuk.co.uk/Forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=4428&start=30

http://www.illustrationartgallery.com/acatalog/Peter_Woolcock_Art.html

http://www.lookandlearn.com/characters/index.php?c=freddiefrog