Whoopee!! its David Mostyn comic work

Smiler is of course by Nick Baker..But this shows the cutout booklet drawn by David.


David's work was great for joke books and he has done many books..

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dad-Youre-Funny-Steve-Turner/dp/0745940250
Heres a poem book he illustrated..by Steve Turner

http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=ntt_athr_dp_sr_2?_encoding=UTF8&search-alias=books-uk&field-author=David%20Mostyn
David has illustated many children's books..see this long list at amazon..

He also decorated the joke and letter page of Whoopee which I'll show in another post.


1st May 1982. This is a brand new take on the artist in control..here the Little Ed is trying to control the artist..well trying..



Whoopee Holiday Special 1983.

As you can see not only does he do great emotion in his strip he is a great cross hatching texture pen artist which is great for a thunder storm for example..

Snack-man v's Snackula!

The owl even says the name of the other comic...Hoot! ;)


Whoopee 17th Dec 1983 IPC Magazines
Snack-man as a Vampire!! or Snackula!



Hoot 25th Jan 1986 DC Thomson

Both drawn by David Mostyn for different publishers..
David has a great busy style..loads of action which I love..check out the last panel with the axe!!

UPDATE More Bill Ritchie comic work and even a Scotty dog sculpture to enjoy..

.....I like Bill's comic strips..the sausage gag is great..works great even without words..

It sounds as though Bill must have had a soft spot for dogs as, along with the long-running adventures of Bunty's black Scotty Dog 'Haggis', he also drew a strip called 'Top Dogs' for the story paper Wizard during the early 1960s in which a different cartoon dog appeared every week: Thanks to philcom55

My mate Steve sometimes has to buy bulk lots of comics off ebay just to get a few issues he doesn't have, lucky for me I get the doubles. He gave me a bundle of Hotspurs, Wizards and Nikkis last Saturday. In the Hotspur no. 618 dated 21/8/71 there was this reprinted Bill Ritchie. The other reprints of this strip were by a different artist. This looks like late 50s Ritchie, anyone know when it first appeared? Thanks to stevezodiac for the imkage

That Uncle Windbag strip would indeed be from the 50s, in The Beano. The third series was done by Ritchie and appeared from issue 744 (20/10/56) to 763 (2/3/57).

The reprints you say are by a different artist are probably from the second series, drawn by Charles Grigg, from issue 579 (22/8/53) to 596 (19/12/53).

The first series was back in 1938, in the first 20 issues, drawn by Charles Holt. Thanks for the answer Digifiend

Thanks MMi for the photo of the Scotty dog..

My father-in-law was very good friends with Bill and my wife considered him, very much, as an uncle. When she came back from the funeral it reminded her of a bit of sculpture he did for her when she was a child. Now proudly sat pride-of-place in our living room.

As you're all a fan of his talents, I could take a photo of it.. MMi

Its great seeing new Bill Ritchie work and even a sculpture done in his comic style.

All from the comicsuk forum post..
http://www.comicsuk.co.uk/Forum/viewtopic.php?f=127&t=3350&start=60

Very funny details fill David Sutherland's early Bash Street kids pages

The Bash Street kids annual 1984.
As a good guess this was from the 1970's Beano


Love the amount of stuff Teacher needs for a potted plant!!


This is the gag that made me laugh out loud! Love the shoe boxes and the helpful horse upside down!


Also love the tadpole in the vinegar.

Other details there is a Roman guard looking out of the Bash Castle window..
Also like the speech balloon coming out of the hole in the handle of the pot..
love Fatty's eyes going up and down after being hit out of the pot..
The swimming sharks in the moat..
The fried egg painting..one looks real
The strange rubbish in the kitchen
The Plugish gargoyles

Leo Baxendale isn't the only artist to add lots of fun details..

Mike Lacey's Sam Spider from Tv Comic Holiday Special 1979

Found another new Mike Lacey...he also drew Super Pooch in the same issue see an earlier post.
..not a very expressive spider looks like his teeth are stuck together!!

Also isn't it a bit weird having a how to make a snow globe in a holiday special!!!

Its a bit like The Beano and Dandy 2010 annuals coming out in the summer...
http://lewstringer.blogspot.com/2010/08/its-summer-so-here-come-christmas.html

A new Tom Paterson to see..

From Cor!! Holiday Special 1976

Tom sure drew great spies..

Title is based on Dial M for Murder..Alfred Hitchcock

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dial_M_for_Murder

See
Hickory Dickory Doc to see at the Cheeky blog..this was one of the Cor-medy contestant...which I talked about in a earlier post..
http://cheekyweekly.blogspot.com/2010/07/features-supporting-features.html

A new Bill Ritchie's character for us to see Game Gus from The Wizard

Thanks to philcom55 from comicsuk forum

http://www.comicsuk.co.uk/Forum/viewtopic.php?f=127&t=3350&start=60

'Game Gus - He's Game for any Game' first appeared in Wizard No 1551 dated Nov 5th 1955 and finally appeared in No 1654 dated Oct 26th 1957. Thanks to Kashgar

Team Mates drawn by Ricky!

Wow! Hoilday Special 1984

Heres Team Mates not drawn by Tom Paterson But by an artist called Ricky!!

I wonder who Ricky was?...he did a pretty good job..But no one can touch Tom of course..

The Wow Holiday Special was very good by the way...I'll show another one off artist soon from the same issue... the Creepy Comix Game..

Who drew this Bumpkin Billionaires? Answer Mervyn Johnston

Whizzer and Chips Holiday Special 1990.
Mike Lacey and Jim Hanson normally drew the Bumpkin Billionaires..who have a good normal rounded fun style..so it is stranjge seeing the Bumpkins in this wacky style..

I'll be touching on artists who drew characters that they didn't normally draw..as they can be interesting to see and its fun trying to work out the artist and what weird styles they used!!

This does look a bit like Spy's work!!!


ISPYSHHHGUY

See BABY BOOMER comic strip here..
http://www.comicsuk.co.uk/Forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=3422&start=120

UPDATE looking at it again I'm pretty sure that it is drawn by Melvin..

Andy B tells me from comicsuk forum its
Mervyn Johnston
Thanks Andy..

Mervyn also drew Buster's Captain Crucial after Tom Paterson left Fleetway.

Sir Laughalot from Topper

5th Sept 1970 Topper this is a reprint from the early 60's. It was drawn by Ken Hunter. As you can see there are lots of gaps in the artwork and the speech bubbles look added on.



This is how it should look like with rhyming couplets which is much better. So shame they changed it in the reprint.




From Topper 1960 annual. I do like the fantasy of the strip.

The big dog pulling the milk float cover of the latest Classics..see the whole story here!

Heres the story from the front cover of Classics from the comics in response to Lews post on wanting to see the whole story..it was in Classics from the comics number 51 in the year 2000.

Blimey! It's another blog about comics!: UK superheroes featured in the latest Classics

George Martin's Super Specs Topper Book 1974

Topper Book 1974.

A new George Martin character for me as I've recently bought this book..

I like this concept very clever...I wonder if this character was in the comic?

George Martin and Bill Holroyd(Brassneck)are the Kings of UK comic slapstick!

The Broons and Oor Wullie in colour and Wee Jock Sparra

Drawn by Ken Harrison who also drew other Dudley D Watkin's characters like Lord Snooty and Desperate Dan. Here is what it looked like for a short time in colour in the Sunday Post. Which I think it suits it well..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_H._Harrison











Heres a new Bill Ritchie character I havn't seen before and what good fun it is...
reminds me of his other bird character Dicky Burd in the Beezer of the early 70's.

http://petergraysukcomicartists.blogspot.com/2009/09/bill-ritchies-beezer-comic-workeg.html
Thanks to stevezodiac for the images...

Just to fill in a few details.
THe Broons and Oor Wullie strips remained in colour until Sunday Post dated 7th Aug
1994 which was also the last time they appeared in something titled the 'Fun Section'.
(The original tear out a page and fold it 4pg Fun Section had last appeared on 28th Aug 1988).
Bill Ritchie's 'Wee Jock Sparra' appeared in the Fun Section from 12th Dec 1991 to 16th May 1993.
BTW in its 48 year history the Sunday Post Fun Section, besides the Broons and Oor Wullie, featured over 40 other strips not including the time in the late 1970's when it ran reprints of strips from other Thomson titles inc Desperate Dan and Toots from Bunty.

Thanks to Kashgar for the info..

See more at the link-
http://www.comicsuk.co.uk/Forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=3634