I recently bought a bunch of Whizzer and Chips comics from the mid to late 1970's, and when looking at the above Fuss Pot strip I noticed something I wasn't exepcting - a signature! Now it's not the fact that there was a signature that's intresting (althought admittedly there weren't often many in the comic), but who's signature it was. I always thought (and it says this in Denis Giffords Catalouge of Comic Characters - go and check for yourself) that Fuss Pot was drawn by Norman Mansbridge, but the last panel is signed by Clive Stewart!
Well, you learn something new everyday don't you!
UPDATE:
Well, it turns out Norman Mansbridge was indeed Fuss Pott's artist, but Clive just managed to do one of the best jobs of ghosting a strip I've ever seen! It's still a good strip, so I'll leave it here...
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Fuss Pott was usually drawn by Norman Mansbridge but I would guess that Clive Stewart was asked to ghost his style as a fill in artist.
Really? Wow! He is an amazing ghost artist - a very similar style!
And its also unusual to see a ghost artist sign a strip!
Quite a few early Fuss Pots seem to have been drawn by Clive. I think Clive may also have covered some other strips...
Of course, after Norman retired Trevor Metcalfe took over, but that was many many years later!
To be honest, I was never a HUGE fan of Fuss Pot, but Norman's style suited the character so well that it makes Tervor's version look weird! (His art was still amazing, of course!)
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