We now have arrived at the early Seventies. Flared trousers are in, as are chopper bikes, clackers can’t be a ways off, and this topic of Sparky used to be in newsagents this week in 1972. The duvet is drawn by Bill Ritchie, with a original come to wishing the readers a Merry Christmas.
Internal, The Sparky Folk‘s Christmas occasion entails about a guest stars from the diversified strips. Spirited to explore artist Jim Petrie’s rob on Puss and Boots, Klanky, Hungry Horace, Spoofer McGraw, and Pansy Potter.
Snip and Snap used to be drawn by Mike Green, who’s later blueprint Weedy Willy for Oink! and Buster. I’ve frequently cherished Mike’s distinctively diversified vogue…
Sam’s Snake and I Skedaddle were both drawn by Phil Millar, who’d been a gag cartoonist for males’s mags in the Fifties.
Spoofer McGraw (He Tells Wide Tales) reminds me of someone I encountered online lately, nonetheless that’s a fable for one other day. This enormous strip used to be drawn by Gordon Bell, the distinctive Pup Parade artist.
…and on the help net page of this 24 net page comic used to be Puss and Boots, one of Sparky‘s most standard strips. Drawn by John Geering it encapsulated the off-the-wall humour that Sparky used to be renowned for at the moment.
Sparky used to be a large comic from 1968 onwards and strips equivalent to Puss and Boots, I Peek, Sparky Folk, Spoofer McGraw and others ought to be reprinted. Maybe in some unspecified time in the future, nonetheless don’t relieve your breath.
But every other Christmas comic the following day!
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