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Dilbert | Scott Adams | |
The Gambols (Daily Express, 1951–94) | Barry Appleby | |
Garfield | Jim Davis | |
Best known for his work in the Daily Express and Sunday Express from 1943 to 1989, featuring a family that was known by his name – including Grandma and Sickly Aunt Vera – and Chalkie the tyrannical schoolmaster | (Ronald/Carl) Giles | |
Dick Tracy | Chester Gould | |
Fred Basset | Alex Graham | |
Tintin | Hergé (Georges Remi) | |
Maudie Littlehampton | Osbert Lancaster | |
The Far Side | Gary Larson | |
Colonel Blimp; famously depicted the TUC as a carthorse | David Low | |
Peanuts | Charles Schultz | |
Created the Belles of St. Trinians, and illustrated the Molesworth stories of Geoffrey Willans | Ronald Searle | |
Andy Capp | Reg Smythe | |
Shrek | William Steig | |
The Cloggies (Private Eye, 1967–81) and The Fosdyke Saga (Daily Mirror, 1971–85) | Bill Tidy | |
Rupert Bear | Mary Tourtel | |
'Flook' (nickname of the Canadian–born British jazz clarinetist and satirical cartoonist Wally Fawkes) | Trog | |
Blondie (a carefree flapper girl, who spent her days in dance halls along with her boyfriend Dagwood Bumstead, heir to a railroad fortune); first appeared in 1930, carried on after his death in 1973 by his son Dean | Chic Young |
Created by writer and editor René Goscinny, and illustrator Albert Uderzo; first appeared in 1959, in the first issue of the Franco–Belgian comics magazine Pilote | Asterix the Gaul |
Rebellious, pinstriped buying clerk, created (and drawn for 51 years) by Frank Dickens, who died in 2016 aged 84 | Bristow | |
US character who first appeared 12 March 1951, 3 days before his (totally different) British namesake – surname Mitchell | Dennis the Menace | |
Strip written and drawn by Garry Trudeau, published in The Guardian, commenting on American life and named after one of the recurring characters | Doonesbury | |
Fat Freddy, Phineas T and Freewheelin' Franklin were collectively known (in an underground comic strip first published in Austin, Texas in 1968) as the | Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers | |
Four–legged associate of the above (with his own offshoot strip) | Fat Freddy's Cat | |
Andy Capp's wife | Flo (Florrie) | |
Drawn by the Canadian–born British jazz clarinetist Wally Fawkes, using the name Trog; appeared in the Daily Mail from 1949 to 1984 | Flook | |
First appeared in the Daily Mail on Monday 8 July 1963 | Fred Basset | |
Odie the dog was the companion of | Garfield | |
Female character who appeared in a Daily Mirror comic strip from 1932 to 1959 – originally subtitled The Diary of a Bright Young Thing | Jane | |
Garfield's favourite food | Lasagne | |
Only friends were her doll Emily Marie and her dog Sandy; catchphrases "Gee whiskers!" and "Leapin' lizards!"; "adopted" by Oliver "Daddy" Warbucks, a stereotypical capitalist | Little Orphan Annie | |
Comic strip Great Dane created 1954 by Brad Anderson – made into a film in 2011, when he was voiced by Owen Wilson | Marmaduke | |
Grew out of a similar strip called Li'l Folks, in the St. Paul (Minnesota) Pioneer Press, 1947–50 | Peanuts | |
Daily Mirror, 1959–2006 (returning in 2010 as reprints), written by Maurice Dodd and drawn by Dennis Collins (until 1983): about a group of children (Wellington, Marlon, Maisie, Baby Grumpling) and a dog (Boot) | The Perishers | |
Daily Mirror, 1919–56, written by Bertram Lamb and drawn by A. B. (Austin Bowen) Payne (until c. 1939): about an orphaned family of animals – a dog, a penguin and a rabbit with very long ears | Pip, Squeak and Wilfred | |
Mister Magoo's first name | Quincy | |
Nickelodeon, 1991–5: title characters are a neurotic chihuahua and an intellectually–challenged cat | Ren and Stimpy | |
Created by Belgian cartoonist Peyo (Pierre Culliford). First appeared in 1958, in the Belgian comic Le Journal de Spirou, in a strip called Johan et Pirlouit, story La flute a six trous (the flute with six holes). Known as 'Schtroumph' in French, 'Schlumpf' in German, 'Puffo' in Italy, 'Pitufo' in Spain. Best known to English speakers through the Hanna–Barbera animated series, 1981–9 | Smurfs | |
Calvin and Hobbes: Calvin is a precocious, mischievous, and adventurous six–year–old boy; Hobbes is a | Tiger | |
Captain Haddock, Professor Calculus, Thomson & Thompson, and Bianca Castafiore (an opera singer, despised by Captain Haddock) appeared in | Tintin |
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