Following on from the Ken Reid post the other day, here's an interesting piece of comic history that Fleetway editor Dez Skinn shared to Facebook recently. It's a letter from Ken to Buster editor Len Wenn, in which he complains that somebody has been changing Faceache's sound effect from 'scrunch' to 'scrunge' when he changes his face.| Wacky Comics!
The owner of a local bookshop gave me this for free (yep, free!) last week - a copy of the very first Fudge the Elf book by the wonderful Ken Reid. This book, titled The Adventures of Fudge, came out in 1939 when Ken was just 20 years old. He would eventually publish seven Fudge books, the last of which came out in 1951. | Wacky Comics!
What you see above may look like any other old 1960s Beano cover, but it is in fact the last page illustrated by legendary artist Dudley Watkins. Watkins was working on the page at his home on the morning of 20th August 1969 when he suffered a fatal heart attack and collapsed over his desk. The Biffo the Bear strip was only part-done, and was later completed by David Sutherland for Beano #1423, dated October 25th 1969.| Wacky Comics!