A Happy Easter with Whizzer and Chips (1986)

Easter is approaching fast, so it's about time I covered an Easter comic. To do so, we head back to the 29th of March 1986, and take a look at this copy of Whizzer and Chips - that year's Easter Special! One of my favourite comic characters - Sweeny Toddler - was on the front cover, as he had been since just after Whoopee merged into Whizzer and Chips almost a year earlier. Sweeny was a very fun character and, although they are all good, this particular episode is one of Tom Paterson's better-drawn strips! Well, it is in my opinion at least, so take a look and judge for yourselves.

Since it's all about Easter, I'll only be showing the Easter related strips, and the next one is, of course, Sweet Tooth. Usually illustrated by Trevor Metcalfe, this episode was illustrated by Doug Goodwin.

Unlike Sid and Slippy (the stars of Whizzer), Shiner's (the star of Chips) strip WAS Easter themed! As always, despite the fact he's staying out of trouble, Shiner still managed to live up to his name and get, well, a shiner!

And so, continuing into Chips, the first Easter themed strip was Boy Butler, illustrated by Mike Lacey.

Tomboy originally appeared in Cor!, but strips were reprinted for Whizzer and Chips in the 1980's. This strip was all about Easter bonnets, a very popular theme in British comics around Easter time - a lot of different and hilarious stories could be based around them!

The final Easter strip in Chips was Boy Boss, the young boy who had a company left to him in a will. This one involves him sighing at the task of testing the Easter eggs - which I found very funny! Frank McDiarmid illustrated this.

Back in Whizzer and, although not directly Easter related, I'm going to show Master. P. Brain because it is an interesting strip that a lot of people may not have heard of before. The usual artist is Cliff Brown, who you may know as the artist of Timothy Tester, but I'm not too sure if this one is by him.

Glowboy shared a page with Catnap, and was based around the stories of a boy who glowed! A very weird strip illustrated by Roy Mitchell, and Catnap was illustrated by Colin Whittock.

Terry Bave's Odd Ball was a very popular strip, and every time it was possible, Odd Ball would have a themed strip. This one sees him turning into a giant red chick, as you'll soon see!

And finally, The Bumpkin Billionaires, illustrated by Mike Lacey. Forever trying to rid themselves of their fortune, this one involves them disposing of it in the form of solid gold Easter eggs!

That brings us to an end of this fantastic comic, filled to the brim with fantastic artists and strips! But, as a final bit of fun, can you spot the two raiders in the strips above? I guarantee they're both there somewhere!