Leo Baxendale- Stan McMurty, Brian Lewis who drew what? part 2

Stan McMurty. ("Mac" from the Daily Mail.)
Thanks to Lew Stringer for the information.
Stan also drew Grimley Feendish which Leo Baxendale also drew.
I'll show in another post so you can see the differences.
http://opal.kent.ac.uk/cartoonx-cgi/artist.py?id=113


the image is from
http://www.comicsuk.co.uk/images/FullStripLeo Baxendale.

Again Brian Lewis and Mike Browns work is often confused with Leo Baxendale. Its interesting to compare the two together. In this period the best way to tell is often by the Leo's signature. It seems Leo does more different type panels like zoom in on characters faces. Also a brush wash again is used. The earlier Wham! comic seems to be more likely to be drawn by Leo.

Brian Lewis

Leo Baxendale- Gordon Hogg who drew what?

From comicsuk Full strip.
http://www.comicsuk.co.uk/FullStrip/FullStripMain.asp

Signed by Leo Baxendale is one way to work out if it was drawn by him.
From Wham! number 2.

Leo wanted to draw the whole comic But was far too much work, so other comic artists ghosted/ drew like Leo which later developed into there own style.




Gordon Hogg (Thanks Lews for info)
Wham! number 38 6th March 1965.

Very difficult to tell apart. Leo drew more different faces and uses the space better..also a nice black brush wash.

Bob Hill- Banana Bunch, L Cars, Black Bun

Bob drew mostly for The Beezer 64- to the 80's and Sparky 70's.





Bob drew the excellent L cars in Sparky early 70's.
See this in Classics from the comics.







Beezer book 1967. Firstly drawn by Leo Baxendale in Beezer 1964.
Bob also took over drawing The Banana Bunch when Leo went to work on Wham! comic.


1969 Beezer book.
Thanks to Spy for some of these images...taken from the Beano and Dandy forum.
http://tiptopgolfy.proboards101.com/

Bill Ritchie- his great colour work

lovely texture on the windows and walls...crosshatching effect..diagonal strokes..worth studying this..





The effects he has got with the colouring are great...looks like he painted it.
The colours run into another colour. Good contrasts. Yellow and blue used well.
From Beezer 1969 Annual.
Thanks to Spy at
http://tiptopgolfy.proboards101.com/
well worth joining up to see some of the posts on many different comics..inside and out...more visual than comicsuk...join up now...to the Beano and Dandy forum..

Puzzle pages for young readers are they dumbed down?

From 1997

I'm sure it is much the same. Just a higher price!


This colouring page is so boring..they stand there...every flower has to have three in each bunch...even one flower is cropped off in the corner...badly cropped and a very lazy drawing...no action.
Look at your latest young kids magazine is it lifeless like this.
Look at the colouring page now and let me know.

This maze is soo basic. Is it possible to go wrong? Maybe once:)
Is your maze page this bad now? Let me know...maybe things have changed from The Tellytubbies mag from 1997.

This is from 1963. The same age group.
Whats is the difference. Less bright garish colour! A drawn cover rather than a photo cover.


The drawing is very good and interesting. That is a better colour challenge. Also tips on how to draw in this case a snail.


This puzzle page has a great maze. Computer graphics are not hiding the drawing like the other one. Partly as this was before computers:)
Also other nice puzzles.

Do other young kids magazines today have puzzle pages this simple, basic and boring.

Let me know in the comments.

Bill Ritchie- Bimbo comic work

Didn't know Bill also drew this in Bimbo...a long eared Donkey. Bill is great at drawing cute.


Mums always wore aprons in those days. Fathers always smoked a pipe:)







Great colours and Bimbo is printed on nice paper.

Nice the different shape frames and the Blue or red background.


Finally got some Bimbo comics. Love penguins so this strip is tops for me. The ideas are simple, cute, fun and clear.

Leo Baxendale- The Cave kids and The Lion Lot

Reprinted in Shiver and Shake holiday special 1978 and called the Shake Squad.

Leo Baxendale drew The Cave Kids for Buster (3/6/67-13/1/68) and while some do contain the odd dinosaur/pterodactyl the creatures that most frequently appear are woolly mammoths. As far as I'm aware Leo drew all of Cave Kids appearances in the Buster comic. The same can't be said of his other Buster strip at the time 'The Pirates' (15/10/66-13/1/68) which did feature the work of other artists from time to time. thanks for the info Kashgar.

Yes, the Shake Squad is the Lion Lot. (From Lion!) It can be quite hard to distinguish Mike Brown from Baxendale during this period (late 60s) especially as I believe Mike Brown did some inking for Leo around this time. thanks NP

thanks Matthew for these images.
reprinted in 1982 Cheeky Annual.

http://www.comicsuk.co.uk/Forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=2139

Bill Holroyd's Nobby the Enchanted Bobby...his Beano work

Beano Dec 27th 1952.

Nobby the Enchanted Bobby (535-563)info from Kashgar.

Have-a-go-Joe (354-458)




Tick-Tock Tony (430-447)




Bucktooth (464-487)


1957 his last work for The Beano.
(Beano issues number 778-788)


Ding-Dong Belle (issue numbers 368-465)



Working mostly for The Dandy after.


He drew many top strips for DC Thomson. See the link to see them all.

http://www.comicsuk.co.uk/Forum/viewtopic.php?f=127&t=2134

Dandy's Brassneck, Screw Driver, Jack Silver....
are just a few. I'll be covering these in the future.
He was great at drawing slapstick. Must of loved Laurel and Hardy! as a good guess.

Gordon Bell- Dash-along Dot

In the new Classics Beano 70 years special is another new character I've never seen Dash-along Dot. Kashgar (thanks again)told me the artist.

Peter, the Dash-along Dot strip was drawn by Gordon Bell as was the Roger the Dodger strip printed above it on the same page.

For your records she appeared in Beano's 855-870 (1958/1959).

http://www.comicsuk.co.uk/Forum/viewtopic.php?f=142&t=2041

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