Features Ordered by Date of Commencement
This is something that I should have posted a long time ago, but only started thinking about recently as I began looking at the latter few months of Cheeky Weekly in my series of issue summaries.Here's...
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The Rejects – Big Strong Sam\Steve
In previous instalments of this series of 'The Rejects' posts, I've examined supporting characters from the 'Ello, it's Cheeky\'Ello I'm Cheeky pages of Krazy who, despite being given a name, didn't...
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Whizzer and Chips - The Cheeky Raids part 9
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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The Mike Lacey and Jimmy Hansen Crisis! Part 1
Regular readers of this blog will be aware of an ongoing series of posts in which I am documenting the 'Cheeky raids' in Whizzer and Chips. In order to research this series I embarked on, and continue,...
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The Mike Lacey and Jimmy Hansen Crisis! Part 2
I retrieved the issue of Whizzer and Chips with the same cover date as the first Cheeky Weekly. My plan is to identify (to the best of my ability) any work by Mike Lacey in that issue of W&C, then...
View ArticleThe Mike Lacey and Jimmy Hansen Crisis! Part 3
I spent a while searching online for any info about Jimmy Hansen, to try to get some idea of when his first IPC work appeared. There hardly seem to be any online references to Jimmy, certainly no...
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Cheeky Weekly cover date 21 July 1979
Art: Gran - Ian Knox (artwork originally appearedin Gran's strip in Cheeky Weekly dated18 November 1978), Cheeky - Mike Lacey.Yet again Gran is described as Bionic,when it was clearly stated in her...
View ArticleThe Pages - Page 20
As has been documented in earlier posts in this series, the distribution of features around the early issues of Cheeky Weekly was somewhat different to that which became established as the comic...
View ArticleJubilee Japes
Peter Gray has posted some lovely Cheeky work from the Silver Jubilee edition of Krazy (in the days when Cheeky still had a 'K' on his jumper - he changed his pullover to one bearing a 'C' as of Krazy...
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The features – The Gang
Gangs of various descriptions have been a staple of British comics since newsagents began selling weeklies packed with strip cartoon fun. From the Casey Court Kids via their Bash Street colleagues to...
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Cheeky Weekly Star Guests in Whizzer and Chips (part 9)
Week 17 of IPC's 1979 Star Guest promotion (in participating comics cover-dated 21 July 1979) means attention turns once again to Whizzer and Chips. In fact this is the 9thand final Cheeky Weekly Star...
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More on Mike Lacey and Jimmy Hansen (plus a few treats)
Art: Mike LaceyFollowing my earlier posts about Mike Lacey and Jimmy Hansen, I thought I'd post this page from Whizzer and Chips dated 30 May 1987 since, thanks to reader Matthew Blaken's enquiry on...
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The Framing Devices - A History
The conversation in IPC's offices in 1977 may have proceeded something like this...“Ok, so we've decided that we're going to launch a comic based around the Cheeky character from Krazy. The purpose of...
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A Post About Bob
The late 1980s letters pages of Whizzer and Chips quite regularly featured reader enquiries as to the identity of the artist on a particular strip. Thanks to Lazy Bones fan Helen Dennis, whose question...
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Yikky Two!
Many thanks to Stephen Archer for this interesting info regarding the similarities between Cheeky's pal Yikky-Boo and a character who appeared in DC Thomson's Nutty some years later;"Looking at Nutty...
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Cheeky Weekly cover date 28 July 1979
Art: Dick MilingtonCheeky is joined on this week's cover by Doctor Braincell for horological hi-jinks drawn by Dick Millington.Dick's contribution to this issue of Cheeky Weekly continues on page 2...
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Cheeky Weekly Star Guests in Whoopee! (part 9)
Well, this is the 18th and final week of IPC's 1979 Star Guest promotion and the burning question is; who has been selected from the ranks of Cheeky Weekly celebrities to make the final...
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Cheeky Weekly Star Guest appearances in other comics - Conclusion
The 1979 run of IPC's trans-comic promotional tool, Star Guest, spanned 18 weeks. During this period, features from Cheeky Weekly made visits to Whizzer and Chips and Whoopee! on alternate weeks, as...
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We care that you care
Whizzer and Chips 17 November 1984. The Krazy Gang have been running in the comic since Krazy folded back in 1978. It's now over 4 years since Cheeky Weekly's demise. A Cheeky strip is still appearing...
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