The first Odd Ball in Whizzer and chips number 1 1969

This strip isn't drawn by Terry Bave ..that came a few years later..which I'm sure many of us have made that mistake! Though Terry and his wife Shelia did create the character...the same with Chalky But didn't draw it.
Terry started drawing it in 1973. Terry had loads to draw in Whizzer and chips already!!

This character like Slippy and Shiner (Shiner arrived in issue 2!) appeared right throughout Whizzer and chips and making into the merger of Buster so an important strips.

Many of us loved Odd Ball and it being able to transform into things was better as a ball which every kid had and could relate to..Box a tricks..a box which did many things from a box which was independent didn't have the connection. Maybe its the face on the ball which gave it personality and fun. Box a tricks had no face and it was very mechanicial and felt dangerous. Maybe its an unfair comparison but I'm showing why Odd Ball was a big hit with kids.

Who was the first artist on Odd Ball can anyone help?
Thanks Andy its Mike Lacey...But who drew it after before Terry bave took over..I'll show example soon..

Reg Parlett's first comic work for Whizzer and chips number 1

Two Simple premises But lots of stories came out of it especially in Harry's Haunted House.

The Mummy's Curse didn't run for long...does anyone have the ending they could email to me..does the Mummy capture them or do they become friends..or the Mummy meets his relatives?

Les Barton also drew some Harry's Haunted House later on..Harry was in the Chip;s section. 

I like his patch on his bottom! :)

The Spectacular NEW adventures of Willie Bunk Whoopee Frank McDiarmid

Heres the new adventures starting in Whoopee!! 12th Sept 1981 its interesting to compare with the original..

Frank McDiarmid's first Willie Bunk from Whizzer and chips number 1.. 1969

18th October 1969 Whizzer and chips number 1

I like Willie Bunk its a fun idea and like the use of colour to show you what Willie sees..
New adventures appeared in Whoopee in the early 80's still by Frank..

It shows the different styles that Frank has from comic to adventure..

Original art- Jack Edward Oliver's Cliff Hanger Star (Wars) Warts!

I love looking at my original art so worth the money...I also have a original art of Tom Thug by Lew and I constantly looking at it on my wall so I recommend it to you all to buy one of a favourite artist..

This is my new purchase and at over £30 it was well worth it from ebay..
This is amazing as Jack drew this actual size rather than twice as big..also he drew it on normal paper rather than thick card..Jack said it was to save postage..Jack did like to save money as much as possible...he also told me he saved pen ink drawing small:)

In the first panel I've been trying to work out this...I'm stuck..
On the shuttle it says syad seuth si loba
I worked out two words first is backwards Days and the small word is--is
can anyone work this out...Jack loved puzzles..

Jack drew so neat I couldn't see any whitening...

Also pleased the small three panels different endings are also wtth the piece..also look at all the monsters in panel two..so much thought and work went into this..

I'm glad I can call Jack a friend and I really miss him even now..glad to go to his Wedding and he and Liz went to my Wedding party 2005. Also had a good long chat with him at his house talking about many things and enjoyed his company and his beans on toast:)

That last one has my name upside down made to look like numbers on Cliff's jumper..brilliant..
I also have a original Fresco comic strip which has in the first panel about Carol and I getting married..it was reused the strip as Charles and Camilla getting married..

All of these are on my wall...thanks Jack they do make me smile..

Thanks to George!!! for the idea for this post..also for helping me turn off the lightbox feature on blogger so now you can click on my images and they get bigger rather than a small slideshow..
Hope everyone else can turn off this lightbox feature..unless your images are small anyway..

Happy Easter from Whizzer and chips 1981!!

I always liked the colouring and pattern of Slippy..also clever how Mike Lacey drew the underbelly in panel 3..also panel 4 looks very complicated to draw...
I'm so glad i was in the era to enjoy Whizzer and chips what a top fun comic..
Jack Edward Oliver's The Champ also sharing the cover..

The panels are nicely balanced on the page even though they are whacky shapesand Sid Burgon sure didn't just draw rectangle boxes...I like how characters are outside the panel...

Some awful puns by Odd Ball..Terry Bave did some great popular strips..


Is that against human rights for the captured villain!!;) A lot of artists in this comic sure did some unusual panels...Robert Nixon is known for it..he has a great 3D style very solid looking characters..

A lovely spring poster...Gordon Hill..I like posters with a bit of thought into them..

The stories were quite clever..


Reg Parlett in top form...lets hope those toys stay toys!!

Have a wet Bank holiday:)

Leo Baxendale's The Bash Street kids

This is one of the last Leo drew in 1962 before David Sutherland took over and drew them in colour..

To my mind Leo's Bash Street tended to be rather more manic and over-the-top than David's version, which in turn had it's own brand of comic inventiveness.

In some ways Leo suffered from having developed an instantly-appealing style that was relatively easy to imitate. Thus, when he suddenly disappeared from the pages of the Beano in August 1962 hardly anybody noticed as Dave Sutherland, Ron Spencer, Jim Petrie and Bob McGrath managed to continue the Bash Street Kids, Little Plum, Minnie the Minx and the Three Bears (more than a quarter of the entire comic!) as if nothing had happened!

To my mind Leo specialized in grand set-pieces and tableaux whereas Dave was more of a natural storyteller. I don't think the latter ever crammed quite as much insane detail into a single panel as Leo managed to include in this late Bash Street page from 1962, shortly before the changeover.

Of course, one important thing to remember about Leo's style is the way in which it evolved constantly throughout his career - something that his more slavish imitators (amongst whom, to be fair, I don't count Dave!) never managed.

- Phil Rushton

http://www.comicsuk.co.uk/Forum/viewtopic.php?f=127&t=4876&start=15

Phil has some really good observations from the comicsuk forum and I wanted to show them here..also check out the link for some great pictures of the Bas Street kids..

David Sutherland drawing the Bash street kids from 1962 and today!!

from the earliest one David Sutherland drawn in 1962..



Beano 25th Feb 2012
to today's Beano he is still a top artist..look at all the expressions hes used...a great funny story..

http://www.comicsuk.co.uk/Forum/viewtopic.php?f=127&t=4876
We are celebrating top talent David Sutherland here at comicsuk forum..

I hope I will get to meet David one day when I do go up north to Scotland for a holiday..

Kazoop..a great new blog on Cor!! comic at the moment..

http://kazoop.blogspot.co.uk/
Blog by Irmantas alias Klakadak-ploobadoof

The detail he is going into on Cor!! comic is brilliant just like the Cheeky Weekly comic blog I also like by Niblet..

http://cheekyweekly.blogspot.com/

These detailed blogs on one comics are like the special book you dreamed of would be published today these are just as good...

Well done...amazing work..I am speechless..:)

Every Tuesday's a Public Jollyday! Beezer's great title slogans and drawing

Its fun seeing the black and white tv..




Heres some black humour!!!








Drinka a pinta of milk a day!


Its the Black Sapper!

These are great fun and catchy slogans..

Blog update

Lots of images will be deleted...I have to delete 500 images from imageshack..But I am saving them and will reupload them using blogger..as you can tell this will take a lot of time..so you will see pictures disappearing from my blog..

so bear with me..I have some nice new ideas for blog posts later..But I must get on top of this..

Ron Spencer's The Beano's Baby-Face and all his cousins!!

Baby-face mum gives Bully Beef's mum a rival in the looks department..:)



These cousins of Baby-face can get very strange..funny strange..:)
Heres Ron's version of the Three Bears...its fun that Little Plum, Three bears and Baby-face are in the same location!! Baby-face first appeared ina Little Plum page before getting his own page..I remember a Beano comic library showing all three characters together..






Parrot-face is a fun character..





after all those different cousins storylines it changed when Baby-face came back to The Beano..which still worked well..

Its nice how they showed how Baby-face ended up in Britain and showing the Marshal waving him off..the storylines were more about toys and sweets pinching..and the local police after him..sometimes his cousins came to visit and Mummy-face seemed to have moved to Britian as well!!

What I like about Baby-face is his unique appearance it is such a unusual face the nostrils the wide mouth...also love the motorised pram...and the classic Yuk! Yuk! laugh..what a great character..
These characters and actions are like a Warner Brothers cartoon..