Peter Gray's Comics and Art: Hugh McNeill

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Monday, 31 August 2015

Funny Fortnightly 4th Nov-17th Nov 1989

I loved Funny Fortnightly and Big Comic Fortnightly and used to have a regurlar order at the newsagent.

The cover is based on Krazy comic 1977 this time the cover is glossy..and no 'ello I'm cheeky!

Also missing off Mike Lacey's signature!!!!! also the boxer has lost the plaster on his forehead!!!!

advert on back of comic..

Hugh McNeill,

It has a game to guess the gag which is quite fun...I'm sure you got it right..check below..

It was quite nice these jokes alongside each reprint page.. The Fun Liner...

Competitions were often in Funny Fortnightly..

This is a reprint from Buster 1972....But was originally from Film Fun early 60's!

By Reg Parlett

Every Fortnight you had to find Willy hiding in the comic...

He's hiding in the bottom corner...so quite tricky to spot...

Sid by Mike Lacey

£5 was a nice prize!

They reprinted from comics that were thinner

this has a decorated border sometimes this is filled in with small jokes..

This is from Whoopee! 1974 when it was thin...Cor!! comic shape..so this was different from Big Comic Fortnightly..which avoided thin comics and the early 70's..

Graham Allen

Leo Baxendale's super The Swot's and the Blots...

Funny often showed comic characters from unusual comics...this is from Valiant comic another differences to Big Comic...

This one was from a Girl's comic of the 70's..

This blog post is inspired by
http://the-oink-blog.blogspot.co.uk/2015/08/beyond-oink-6-funny-fortnightly.html

Saturday, 19 April 2014

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...

Sunday, 19 May 2013

Harold Hare's Own Paper highlights inside-

A nice big comic for younger children...Harold Hare is a great character...love the mouse mowing his hair!!

Hugh signs his work in this comic and he does do quite a few pages..

This shows how well it was doing...

I love the nonsense of this strip...Hugh McNeill is great at drawing mad characters!! Also she is very cute..

Peter Woolcock drew this..

Philip Mendoza

This is such a delightful strip..it is so sweet...

http://bearalley.blogspot.co.uk/2007/10/harold-hare-meets-tony-hancock.html

Wednesday, 31 August 2011

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

Sunday, 27 June 2010

Pansy Potter wrecks the Beano office twice!!

Charles Griggs The Beano 8th Feb 1958

First Christmas Beano 1938. Hugh McNeill

Thanks to phil-comics at ebay..
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Beano-comic-21-1938-FIRST-CHRISTMAS-phil-comics-/250656264745?cmd=ViewItem&pt=UK_Books_comics_Magazines_UK_Comics_ET&hash=item3a5c471229
Note that both strips have Pansy kicking down the office door..and dropping a penny/sweet..

Its interesting the way the two stories are similar in the way they introduce Pansy Potter...

16th December 1989 by Barry Glennard
Pansy didn't wreck the Beano office the last time she was introduced..

Tuesday, 10 February 2009

Hugh McNeill's amazing adventure comic career!!

Three very different versions of 'realistic' art by the amazingly versatile Mr. M:

Dick Turpin vs. his nemesis 'Creepy' Crawley (from Sun no.226, June 6th 1953)

The Wind in the Willows from Womens' Pictorial (As reprinted in Sun no.76, July 22 1950)

Thunderbolt Jaxon (From Knockout Annual 1960 )

- Phil Rushton

Thanks Phil for those great scans..
http://www.comicsuk.co.uk/Forum/viewtopic.php?f=127&t=2484