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Stage School update
While researching material for my Random Cheeky Remnants series of posts, I discovered that when I wrote my 2024 post entitled The Whizzer and Chips Years - Stage School, I omitted to mention an...
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The Whizzer and Chips Years - Random Cheeky Remnants - Part 3 - Comic Turns
In addition to carrying the weekly strips Stage School, Calculator Kid (plus spin-off puzzle feature Calculator Corner) and Mustapha Million in Whizzer and Chips' post-Whoopee-merge era (Whizzer and...
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The Whizzer and Chips Years - Random Cheeky Remnants - Part 2 - Big Comic...
In addition to carrying the weekly strips Stage School, Calculator Kid (plus spin-off puzzle feature Calculator Corner) and Mustapha Million in Whizzer and Chips' post-Whoopee-merge era (Whizzer and...
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The Whizzer and Chips Years - Random Cheeky Remnants - Part 1 - Farmer Jokes,...
In addition to carrying the weekly strips Stage School, Calculator Kid (plus spin-off puzzle feature Calculator Corner) and Mustapha Million in Whizzer and Chips' post-Whoopee-merge era (Whizzer and...
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More Mustapha Musings
In my previous post documenting the final run of Mustapha Million I revealed that (36-year spoiler alert for the benefit of those who are a bit behind with their comic reading) our middle eastern mate...
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The Whizzer and Chips Years - Mustapha Million's New Series - Frank McDiarmid
Barry Glennard relinquished his role as illustrator of Mustapha Million following publication of Whizzer and Chips dated 17 October 1987. It would seem that the date for the hand-over to a new artist...
View ArticleSad News For All Listeners
Our cheery chums over at the Funny Comics Fan Club podcast have posted their final episode. I've thoroughly enjoyed all of their observations on the fascinating, amusing, perplexing and sometimes...
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Frank McDiarmid in post-Whoopee-merge Whizzer and Chips
In this post I'm focusing on the features that Frank McDiarmid drew in Whizzer and Chips between its absorption of Whoopee as of the issue dated 06 April 1985 and Whizzer and Chips' final issue dated...
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The Whizzer and Chips Years - Mustapha Million's New Series - Barry Glennard
I have previously examined the brief contributions of artists Joe McCaffrey and Robert Nixon to Mustapha Million's new series which commenced in Whizzer and Chips dated 18 January 1986. As of Whizzer...
View ArticleElements, Pages, Episodes and Page Configuration
Just a bit of background info on some of the terms I use when discussing the contents of weekly comics, annuals and specials... In a weekly comic, each feature (e.g. Mustapha Million, Calculator Kid)...
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The Whizzer and Chips Years - Mustapha Million's New Series - Robert Nixon
Following Joe McCaffrey's puzzlingly brief tenure as artist on Mustapha Million's new series, the illustrative baton on the feature was taken up by Robert Nixon. Robert hadn't previously drawn any...
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The Whizzer and Chips Years - Mustapha Million's New Series - Joe McCaffrey
Artist Joe McCaffrey first contributed a Mustapha Million episode in Cheeky Weekly's 13th issue, dated 14 January 1978, deputising for Reg Parlett who at the time was the regular illustrator for our...
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The Whizzer and Chips Years - Mustapha Million - The Reprints
Mustapha Million first appeared in issue number 1 of Cheeky Weekly dated 22 October 1977, and went on to feature in 114 of the 117 issues published before that comic expired as of February 1980, also...
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The Cheeky Detectives
I have something of a backlog of recordings of nostalgia-focused Talking Pictures TV's The Footage Detective programmes, so I have only now discovered that there was some Cheeky content in the episode...
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Colin Whittock RIP
I was sorry to read on downthetubes of the sad passing of Colin Whittock. I was aware of Colin's comic work (mainly Lazy Bones in Whizzer and Chips), but downthetubes' tribute gives details about his...
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The Whizzer and Chips Years - Calculator Kid
The first instalment of this The Whizzer and Chips Years series examined the very brief history of Stage School in Whizzer and Chips. This second part will focus on another of the three features that...
View ArticleThe FCFC spend a week with Cheeky
In the latest episode of the Funny Comics Fan Club podcast, Mark Hibbett and John Dredge enthuse about the 26 August 1978 issue of Cheeky Weekly. Both our hosts have fond memories of the title (John...
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Whizzer and Chips - The Cheeky Raids Part 62
New readers start here... After Cheeky Weekly folded and was incorporated into Whoopee as of February 1980 six strips that had originated in the toothy funster's title survived the merge and continued...
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Whizz-ites vs Chip-kids - Part 8
This is another post in the series that sees me ruthlessly unmasking the traitorous characters who posed as both Whizz-kids and Chip-ites during their appearances in Whizzer and Chips. My investigation...
View ArticleThe FCFC go Krazy
In the latest episode of the Funny Comics Fan Club podcast, Mark Hibbett and John Dredge are examining an issue of Krazy, the comic that spawned the Cheeky phenomenon. I'm pleased to say that they hold...
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