#general jumbo

Beano “Bash Street Kids” artist David Sutherland has been awarded an OBE

In Pictures and In Review: “Beano – The Art of Breaking the Rules” at Somerset House, London

Combining classic and current BEANO comic art with some amazing modern work (shriek!), this Somerset House exhibition no fan of the weekly humour comic will want to miss… Richard Sheaf reports… Occupying London’s Somerset House main exhibition space (like the Peanuts exhibition in 2018/19 but unlike the Hergé exhibition of 2015/16), “Beano – The Art of Breaking the Rules” is a simply huge…

(Continuing the theme of images randomly thrown up by Facebook that then vanish before I’ve finished my usual arduous working out of thinks, this was from the day of the Russian invasion back in February. The image itself was more than a decade old at the time, so this definitely qualified as an instance of Xenochronicity. These texts, about images forgotten by me but ‘remembered’ by an…

Hunt continues for missing Scottish comic creator Gordon McLean

Missing: Award-winning comic, TV, radio and film writer Gordon McLean

Scottish Police are appealing for help to find missing award-winning comic, TV, radio and film writer Gordon McLean, who has been missing for over a week, after going to a party.

The 39-year-old was last seen on Wednesday 18th December in Prospecthill Street in Greenock, Inverclyde and is described as white, 5ft 10, brown eyes,…

#Ireland from #Paddy to #Ennis this country has it all.

    Not a whole lot of I countries in the world, and today, thanks to the folks at A to Z Challenge1, I decided to go with Ireland. Sorry, no Gaelic here today, folks. Perhaps some southern dialect. As in my use of y’all at times, but that’s about it.

I could not include Ireland in this series due to one specific writer that I’ll discuss later.

Except for the Paddy Brennan images, if you click…

The Beano comic: The General and the Cat.

Alfie "General Jumbo" Johnson and William "Billy the Cat" Grange from the 2008 "The General" crossover (where Alfie tried to kill Billy quite violently several times).

"Alfie Johnson was a boy who served as "general" to a remote control model army, navy and air force created by scientist Professor Carter. He appeared in Nutty and Buddy in the early 1980s, drawn by Rothesay-based Sandy Calder, and later in the Beano. The Buddy version called him Jimmy instead of Alfie."

"Billy the Cat (later Billy the Cat and Katie) was a comic strip in The Beano. The strip featured William Grange, later joined by his cousin Kathleen, alias Billy the Cat and Katie. Both were acrobatic crime fighters who helped the police to solve crime and catch crooks in the town of Burnham. They wore "cat-suits" in order to conceal their true identities."

Slipping the Wikipedia descriptions in there because I doubt anyone remembers these guys or even knew about them in the first place. But man, they were the coolest! Their comic strips were the parts I looked forward to most in the Beano when I was a kid.

Excuse my weird proportions and that Alfie's back is probably twice as long as it should be. Billy's probably a bit curvier than is normal for a boy but I'm still getting the hang of proper anatomy.

General Jumbo/Billy the Cat (c) The Beano.