Cheeky's Week - Artists by issue and %

Below is an analysis of the Cheeky's Week content of Cheeky Weekly by issue and artists, showing the number of Cheeky's Week elements contributed by each artist (or combination thereof in the case of Frank McDiarmid pencils), and the percentage contribution each artist made to the issue.

Note how the number of Cheeky's Week elements decreases over the comic's run, no doubt to the relief of Frank McDiarmid and the other artists valiantly coping (and succeeding brilliantly) with the demand to depict a whole week of the toothy funster's doings in each issue.  Early issues have 13 Cheeky's Week elements (and hitting an all-time peak of 14 in the 31 December 1977 Christmas issue, all of which were pure Frank), then dropping to 10 as at revamp 2, and to 9 in summer 1979.

Also the number of artists/combinations thereof collaborating on a single issue peaks in spring 1978, with the 08 April 1978 issue featuring 5 Cheeky's Week contributors, then (with a few exceptions) falls back over the following months. As of the introduction of the second revamp with the issue cover dated 30 September 1978, a policy appears to have been introduced whereby every other issue featured pure Frank McDiarmid Cheeky's Week art, with just a single artist (or collaboration in the case of Frank McDiarmid pencils) contributing the artwork on the alternate weeks, although the rule starts to break down somewhat in early 1979.

Just a reminder that not all the Cheeky's Week elements in an issue filled a whole page - for example, Wednesday (conclusion) was only a single row of panels, as was What A Cheek.

Most recent update: 03 May 2018 - The page 30 conclusion to Saturday in the 17 December 1977 issue (consisting of 2 cut-and-paste panels) had not previously been reflected in the figures below.

Updated 19 June 2016 - 18 Cheeky's Week elements that were previously attributed to Mike Lacey have now been credited to Jimmy Hansen.

Updated 14 February 2016 - reassigned 2 episodes of Snail of the Century from Frank McDiarmid to Barrie Appleby

Updated 26 May 2013

Cheeky's Week artists: % by issue

Cover Date	Total Cheeky's Week elements	Artist	Number of Cheeky's Week elements	%
22-Oct-1977	13
		Frank McDiarmid	13	100
29-Oct-1977	13
		Frank McDiarmid	13	100
05-Nov-1977	13
		Frank McDiarmid	13	100
12-Nov-1977	13
		Frank McDiarmid pencils	11	85
		Frank McDiarmid	2	15
19-Nov-1977	12
		Frank McDiarmid	6	50
		Frank McDiarmid pencils	5	42
		Cut and Paste	1	8
26-Nov-1977	13
		Frank McDiarmid pencils	12	92
		Frank McDiarmid	1	8
03-Dec-1977	13
		Frank McDiarmid pencils	11	85
		Frank McDiarmid	2	15
10-Dec-1977	13
		Frank McDiarmid	7	54
		Frank McDiarmid pencils	5	38
		Cut and Paste	1	8
17-Dec-1977	13
		Frank McDiarmid pencils	8	62
		Frank McDiarmid	3	23
		Dick Millington	1	8
		Cut and Paste	1	8
24-Dec-1977	13
		Dick Millington	11	85
		Frank McDiarmid	1	8
		Frank McDiarmid pencils	1	8
31-Dec-1977	14
		Frank McDiarmid	14	100
07-Jan-1978	12
		Frank McDiarmid pencils	12	100
14-Jan-1978	12
		Unknown Cheeky Artist 1	12	100
21-Jan-1978	12
		Frank McDiarmid	8	67
		Frank McDiarmid pencils	3	25
		Unknown Cheeky Artist 1	1	8
28-Jan-1978	11
		Unknown Cheeky Artist 1	5	45
		Frank McDiarmid pencils	4	36
		Cut and Paste	1	9
		Frank McDiarmid	1	9
04-Feb-1978	10
		Frank McDiarmid	9	90
		Cut and Paste	1	10
11-Feb-1978	13
		Frank McDiarmid pencils	5	38
		Unknown Cheeky Artist 1	5	38
		Jim Watson	3	23
18-Feb-1978	13
		Frank McDiarmid	7	54
		Unknown Cheeky Artist 1	4	31
		Frank McDiarmid pencils	2	15
25-Feb-1978	13
		Frank McDiarmid pencils	9	69
		Frank McDiarmid	4	31
04-Mar-1978	13
		Frank McDiarmid	8	62
		Unknown Cheeky Artist 1	5	38
11-Mar-1978	13
		Unknown Cheeky Artist 1	6	46
		Barrie Appleby	6	46
		Frank McDiarmid pencils	1	8
18-Mar-1978	13
		Frank McDiarmid pencils	7	54
		Frank McDiarmid	6	46
25-Mar-1978	13
		Unknown Cheeky Artist 1	6	46
		Barrie Appleby	4	31
		Frank McDiarmid pencils	2	15
		Frank McDiarmid	1	8
01-Apr-1978	13
		Frank McDiarmid	5	38
		Frank McDiarmid pencils	5	38
		Jim Watson	2	15
		Unknown Cheeky Artist 1	1	8
08-Apr-1978	13
		Barrie Appleby	5	38
		Unknown Cheeky Artist 1	4	31
		Jim Watson	2	15
		Frank McDiarmid pencils	1	8
		Frank McDiarmid	1	8
15-Apr-1978	13
		Frank McDiarmid	9	69
		Frank McDiarmid pencils	4	31
22-Apr-1978	13
		Frank McDiarmid	6	46
		Barrie Appleby	5	38
		Unknown Cheeky Artist 1	1	8
		Frank McDiarmid pencils	1	8
29-Apr-1978	12
		Jim Watson	5	42
		Frank McDiarmid pencils	4	33
		Frank McDiarmid	2	17
		Unknown Cheeky Artist 1	1	8
06-May-1978	13
		Frank McDiarmid	7	54
		Barrie Appleby	5	38
		Unknown Cheeky Artist 1	1	8
13-May-1978	13
		Frank McDiarmid pencils	7	54
		Frank McDiarmid	6	46
20-May-1978	13
		Barrie Appleby	7	54
		Jim Watson	5	38
		Frank McDiarmid	1	8
27-May-1978	13
		Dick Millington	11	85
		Barrie Appleby	1	8
		Frank McDiarmid	1	8
03-Jun-1978	13
		Frank McDiarmid pencils	8	62
		Jim Watson	4	31
		Barrie Appleby	1	8
10-Jun-1978	13
		Barrie Appleby	7	54
		Jim Watson	5	38
		Frank McDiarmid	1	8
17-Jun-1978	12
		Mike Lacey	11	92
		Barrie Appleby	1	8
24-Jun-1978	13
		Barrie Appleby	6	46
		Frank McDiarmid pencils	5	38
		Frank McDiarmid	2	15
01-Jul-1978	11
		Frank McDiarmid	9	82
		Frank McDiarmid pencils	1	9
		Barrie Appleby	1	9
08-Jul-1978	12
		Frank McDiarmid pencils	10	83
		Barrie Appleby	2	17
15-Jul-1978	12
		Mike Lacey	10	83
		Frank McDiarmid pencils	1	8
		Barrie Appleby	1	8
22-Jul-1978	12
		Barrie Appleby	11	92
		Frank McDiarmid	1	8
29-Jul-1978	12
		Frank McDiarmid	11	92
		Frank McDiarmid pencils	1	8
05-Aug-1978	12
		Frank McDiarmid	11	92
		Mike Lacey	1	8
12-Aug-1978	12
		Frank McDiarmid pencils	10	83
		Frank McDiarmid	1	8
		Barrie Appleby	1	8
19-Aug-1978	11
		Frank McDiarmid	10	91
		Barrie Appleby	1	9
26-Aug-1978	12
		Mike Lacey	10	83
		Barrie Appleby	1	8
		Frank McDiarmid	1	8
02-Sep-1978	11
		Frank McDiarmid pencils	10	91
		Frank McDiarmid	1	9
09-Sep-1978	10
		Frank McDiarmid	10	100
16-Sep-1978	10
		Frank McDiarmid	10	100
23-Sep-1978	11
		Frank McDiarmid pencils	10	91
		Frank McDiarmid	1	9
30-Sep-1978	11
		Frank McDiarmid	11	100
07-Oct-1978	11
		Mike Lacey	11	100
14-Oct-1978	11
		Frank McDiarmid	11	100
21-Oct-1978	11
		Frank McDiarmid pencils	11	100
28-Oct-1978	11
		Frank McDiarmid	11	100
04-Nov-1978	11
		Mike Lacey	11	100
11-Nov-1978	11
		Frank McDiarmid	11	100
18-Nov-1978	11
		Frank McDiarmid pencils	11	100
25-Nov-1978	11
		Frank McDiarmid	11	100
02-Dec-1978	9
		Mike Lacey	9	100
09-Dec-1978	10
		Frank McDiarmid	10	100
06-Jan-1979	10
		Frank McDiarmid pencils	9	90
		Frank McDiarmid	1	10
13-Jan-1979	11
		Frank McDiarmid	11	100
20-Jan-1979	10
		Frank McDiarmid	10	100
27-Jan-1979	10
		Mike Lacey	10	100
03-Feb-1979	10
		Frank McDiarmid	5	50
		Mike Lacey	5	50
10-Feb-1979	10
		Barrie Appleby	9	90
		Frank McDiarmid	1	10
17-Feb-1979	10
		Frank McDiarmid	10	100
24-Feb-1979	9
		Mike Lacey	9	100
03-Mar-1979	10
		Frank McDiarmid	10	100
10-Mar-1979	10
		Frank McDiarmid	9	90
		Barrie Appleby	1	10
17-Mar-1979	10
		Mike Lacey	9	90
		Frank McDiarmid	1	10
24-Mar-1979	9
		Frank McDiarmid	9	100
31-Mar-1979	8
		Frank McDiarmid	4	50
		Barrie Appleby	4	50
07-Apr-1979	10
		Frank McDiarmid	6	60
		Mike Lacey	4	40
14-Apr-1979	10
		Frank McDiarmid pencils	8	80
		Frank McDiarmid	2	20
21-Apr-1979	10
		Frank McDiarmid	10	100
28-Apr-1979	10
		Frank McDiarmid	5	50
		Barrie Appleby	4	40
		Mike Lacey	1	10
05-May-1979	10
		Frank McDiarmid	9	90
		Mike Lacey	1	10
12-May-1979	10
		Mike Lacey	5	50
		Frank McDiarmid	5	50
19-May-1979	11
		Frank McDiarmid	10	91
		Jimmy Hansen	2	18
26-May-1979	10
		Frank McDiarmid pencils	4	40
		Jimmy Hansen	4	40
		Frank McDiarmid	1	10
		Barrie Appleby	1	10
02-Jun-1979	9
		Frank McDiarmid	9	100
09-Jun-1979	10
		Frank McDiarmid pencils	8	80
		Mike Lacey	1	10
		Frank McDiarmid	1	10
16-Jun-1979	10
		Mike Lacey	9	90
		Frank McDiarmid	1	10
23-Jun-1979	10
		Frank McDiarmid	9	90
		Dick Millington	1	10
30-Jun-1979	10
		Dick Millington	8	80
		Frank McDiarmid	1	10
		Mike Lacey	1	10
07-Jul-1979	8
		Frank McDiarmid	8	100
14-Jul-1979	9
		Mike Lacey	8	89
		Frank McDiarmid	1	11
21-Jul-1979	9
		Frank McDiarmid	5	56
		Frank McDiarmid pencils	4	44
28-Jul-1979	9
		Dick Millington	8	89
		Frank McDiarmid	1	11
04-Aug-1979	8
		Frank McDiarmid	8	100
11-Aug-1979	9
		Frank McDiarmid	9	100
18-Aug-1979	9
		Frank McDiarmid pencils	5	56
		Frank McDiarmid	4	44
25-Aug-1979	9
		Frank McDiarmid	6	67
		Frank McDiarmid pencils	3	33
01-Sep-1979	9
		Mike Lacey	8	89
		Frank McDiarmid	1	11
08-Sep-1979	9
		Frank McDiarmid	9	100
15-Sep-1979	9
		Jimmy Hansen	4	44
		Mike Lacey	4	44
		Frank McDiarmid	1	11
22-Sep-1979	8
		Not known	5	63
		Frank McDiarmid pencils	3	38
29-Sep-1979	9
		Frank McDiarmid	9	100
06-Oct-1979	9
		Mike Lacey	4	44
		Jimmy Hansen	4	44
		Frank McDiarmid	1	11
13-Oct-1979	9
		Frank McDiarmid	8	89
		Barrie Appleby	1	11
20-Oct-1979	9
		Jimmy Hansen	4	44
		Mike Lacey	4	44
		Barrie Appleby	1	11
27-Oct-1979	9
		Frank McDiarmid	9	100
03-Nov-1979	9
		Mike Lacey	4	44
		Dick Millington	4	44
		Frank McDiarmid	1	11
10-Nov-1979	8
		Bob Hill	4	50
		Barrie Appleby	4	50
17-Nov-1979	9
		Frank McDiarmid	9	100
24-Nov-1979	9
		Frank McDiarmid	9	100
01-Dec-1979	9
		Mike Lacey	8	89
		Frank McDiarmid	1	11
08-Dec-1979	9
		Frank McDiarmid	9	100
15-Dec-1979	9
		Frank McDiarmid	9	100
22-Dec-1979	9
		Frank McDiarmid	5	56
		Mike Lacey	4	44
29-Dec-1979	13
		Frank McDiarmid	13	100
05-Jan-1980	10
		Frank McDiarmid	10	100
12-Jan-1980	9
		Mike Lacey	8	89
		Frank McDiarmid	1	11
19-Jan-1980	9
		Frank McDiarmid	9	100
26-Jan-1980	9
		Frank McDiarmid	5	56
		Mike Lacey	4	44
02-Feb-1980	9
		Frank McDiarmid	9	100

The One-Offs - Auntie Daisy's Ancestor

Auntie Daisy's unnamed antecedent made a one-off appearance, implicating herself in the fateful events at Pudding Lane, in the issue dated 23 September 1978.

Character	Total Issues	First Appearance	Final Appearance
Auntie Daisy's Ancestor	1	23-Sep-1978	23-Sep-1978

Revamp 2

A full-blown revamp hit Cheeky Weekly's 50th issue dated 30 September 1978.  Rather similarly to the first revamp, this second upheaval took place around a cut-out feature.  In the case of the first revamp, the changes had occurred around 1978's mini comics promotion, while revamp 2 was instigated around the 4-week Crack-A-Joke game promotion which began in the 02 September 1978 issue.

Features to end in preparation for revamp 2;

• Creepy Sleepy Tale and related strip, Wednesday (conclusion), both had their final appearances in the comic dated 26 August 1978, as did Old Comic.  The demise of these features freed up space for the Crack-A-Joke Game to begin the following week.
• Archie's Angels came to an end in the 16 September 1978 issue, the penultimate issue to carry elements of the Crack-A-Joke Game.
• Sunday evening, Teacher's Teasers and What A Cheek all ended in the 23 September 1978 issue, the final issue before the revamp.
• The Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf reprint from Cor!! made its second and final Cheeky Weekly appearance in the 30 September 1978 issue, although the cartoon supporting feature element of Saturday's cinema show continued with Warner Brothers cartoon strips.

New features appearing during revamp 2;

• Silly Snaps began in the 02 September 1978 issue
• Cheeky's Pal Puzzle and Cheeky's Week started on 30 September 1978.
• The most significant new component of the comic as of revamp 2 was the Mystery Comic section in the centre pages.  This new section, which made its debut in the 30 September 1978 issue, was home to newcomers Disaster Des, Elephant On The Run, Mystery Boy, Tub and Why, Dad, Why?.

A couple of features emerged, blinking, from IPC's vaults for a single time before being summarily returned to oblivion, as the comic geared up for the revamp;

• Hickory Dickory Doc, another reprint from Cor!! that was used to represent a supporting feature cartoon, made its sole Cheeky Weekly appearance in the 16 September 1978 issue, and Sonny Storm, yet another reanimated Cor!! character, blew into and out of the comic dated 23 September 1978.

Although Archie's Angels and Sonny Storm, both strips whose role in Cheeky Weekly had been to represent the adventure serial element of Cheeky's weekly cinema visit, had come to an end by 30 September 1978, the cinema serial idea had not been dropped.  A new (to Cheeky Weekly, anyway) adventure strip would commence in the 07 October 1978 issue.

In addition to the new features, revamp 2 saw a change in the design of the Cheeky's Week pages.  Previously, each day of the week was introduced with a caption above the top row of artwork, as from revamp 2 a more conventional title panel, reading Cheeky's Week and including an entry from Cheeky's Diary, kicked off each new day.  In addition to this, a new element was introduced at the bottom of the first of each of the Cheeky's Week pages, with a caption reading What did YOU do today?, and giving a space in which readers were invited to record their daily doings.

Cynics among Cheeky Weekly's readership may have considered that the introduction of these new elements onto Cheeky's pages had an ulterior motive. Taken over a whole issue, the space lost to the new title panel and reader's diary would amount to a whole page or more, reducing the workload for the toiling artists working to fill a whole Cheeky's Week each issue, and of course saving money for IPC.

As can be seen here, revamp 2 had the effect of reducing the total number of Cheeky's Week elements from a pre-revamp average of 13 elements per issue to 10.

The revamp continued in the following week's issue, as the 07 October 1978 comic saw the introduction of 2 more new strips; Laugh and Learn, and The Terrible Trail to Taggart's Treasure, a reprint from Shiver and Shake.

A new policy on Cheeky's Week artists appeared to have been instigated at this revamp. Whereas previously the majority of issues had seen multiple artists contribute to each comic's Cheeky strips, as of 30 September 1978 only one artist (or collaboration) from the usual pool of illustrators provided each issue's Cheeky's Week content. The issues and artists can be seen here.

As of revamp 2, the number of Cheeky's Week elements per issue was reduced to 11, from a previous average 13, then down to 10 as of early 1979. This reduction in Cheeky elements probably made the editor confident that the new 'one Cheeky artist per issue' policy could be maintained, but it began to break down in early 1979.

Revamps were common in comics of the period, as editors tried to fine-tune the contents of their titles to yield maximum readership.  It's interesting that readers were invited to fill out a popularity poll in the comic dated 09 September 1978, a mere 3 weeks before 30 September's reshuffle.  Surely by 09 September, the new features had already been completed.  Maybe the changes introduced at revamp 2 were in response to the first readers' poll in the issue dated 10 December 1977.  Alternatively, the changes may have been made as a consequence of unsolicited reader feedback, or possibly the Cheeky Weekly editor decided to introduce a comic-within-comic to emulate long-running IPC stablemate Whizzer and Chips, which had adopted a 2-comics-in-one approach from its first issue.

Comparison of features: Issues 26-Aug-1978 and 30-Sep-1978

26-Aug-1978	30-Sep-1978
6 Million Dollar Gran	6 Million Dollar Gran
Archie's Angels	X - Final appearance was 16-Sep-1978
Calculator Kid	Calculator Kid
Cover Feature	Cover Feature
Creepy Sleepy Tale	X - Final appearance was 26-Aug-1978
Friday	Friday
Interval	Interval
Joke-Box Jury	Joke-Box Jury
Monday	Monday
Mustapha Million	Mustapha Million
Old Comic	X - Final appearance was 26-Aug-1978
Paddywack	Paddywack
Pin-up pal	X - Will return
Saturday	Saturday
Skateboard Squad	Skateboard Squad
Sunday	Sunday
Sunday evening	X - Final appearance was 23-Sep-1978
Teacher's Teasers	X - Final appearance was 23-Sep-1978
Thursday	Thursday
Tuesday	Tuesday
Tweety and Sylvester	Tweety and Sylvester
Wednesday	Wednesday
Wednesday (conclusion)	X - Final appearance was 26-Aug-1978
What a Cheek	X - Final appearance was 23-Sep-1978
What's New, Kids	X - Will return
X - New after 26-Aug-1978: Begins 30-Sep-1978	Cheeky's Pal Puzzle
X - New after 26-Aug-1978: Begins 30-Sep-1978	Cheeky's Week
X - New after 26-Aug-1978: Begins 30-Sep-1978	Disaster Des
X - New after 26-Aug-1978: Begins 30-Sep-1978	Elephant On The Run
X - New after 26-Aug-1978: Begins 30-Sep-1978	Hoi! What do you get up to all week
X - New after 26-Aug-1978: Begins 30-Sep-1978	Mystery Boy
X - New after 26-Aug-1978: Begins 02-Sep-1978	Silly Snaps
X - New after 26-Aug-1978: Begins 30-Sep-1978	Tub
X - Started before 26-Aug-1978, Ends 30-Sep-1978	Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf
X - New after 26-Aug-1978: Begins 30-Sep-1978	Why, Dad, Why?
Started and finished within dates	Crack-A-Joke Game Start 02-Sep-1978, End 23-Sep-1978
Started and finished within dates	Hickory Dickory Doc Start 16-Sep-1978, End 16-Sep-1978
Started and finished within dates	Marx Toys Competition Start 16-Sep-1978, End 16-Sep-1978
Started and finished within dates	Readers poll Start 09-Sep-1978, End 09-Sep-1978
Started and finished within dates	Sonny Storm Start 23-Sep-1978, End 23-Sep-1978

Updates

I have updated the final table in each of the following feature posts, to break down the artists-by-date data into Mystery Comic vs non-Mystery Comic appearances.

Mustapha Million

Why, Dad, Why?

Cheeky Weekly cover date 30 September 1978

As we reach Cheeky Weekly's 50th issue, there are signs on the cover that big changes are afoot.  It appears that the whole Mystery Comic is on view inside, and a new cover feature, Cheeky's Week…Sunday, takes over from What A Cheek, although the three-panel gag format of the previous strip continues.

Flipping over to page 2 reveals some more changes - there's no title to the Sunday page - we're now to infer that it follows on from the cover's Cheeky's Week…Sunday feature, and a What Did YOU Do Today? diary-type section occupies the bottom of the page.  It also appears that Cheeky's favourite TV show, 6 Million Dollar Gran, has been moved to a mid-day time slot, which is fortunate for us readers as the Sunday evening element of Cheeky's Week came to an end last week.

On page 6, Cheeky explains the purpose of the new diary section of his pages.  I think his rather ill-mannered Hoi! is something he picked up from Snail.

There's another new development when we arrive at the Monday feature - a panel reading 'Cheeky's Week…Monday' and displaying an extract from Cheeky's diary now introduces the strip instead of the Monday caption across the top of the page which appeared previously.  This, together with the What Did YOU Do Today diary area at the bottom of the page, appears once for each of the remaining days of Cheeky's Week in the comic (it doesn't appear on the Interval or second Saturday pages).

The Skateboard Squad title panel which appeared for the first time last week has been dropped in favour of a more streamlined banner-style introductory panel showing the team proudly flying a, er, banner.  The fact that the title panel now spans the width of the page means that the name of the strip can be displayed in full rather than being broken down into three words as it was last week.

On Wednesday, Cheeky dials 1978 in the time-travelling phone box and skips back a couple of days to the moment when the single copy of this week's Mystery Comic came off the printing press.  Never having seen a complete issue of this mysterious publication, we eagerly turn the page to view the cover, and get our first look at the Tub strip.  Next up is the first episode of Why, Dad, Why?, followed by the debut of adventure serial Mystery Boy (a retitled reprint of the Who Is Sandy? strip from Whizzer and Chips, 1971).

The following Mystery Comic page introduces us to the peripatetic pachyderm and his plastic-clad pursuer in the first instalment of Robert Nixon's 2-page Elephant On The Run, after which we encounter good old Mustapha Million, the only Mystery Comic character that we had seen up until now.

Rounding off the Mystery Comic section is another newcomer, juvenile jinx Disaster Des.

Page 21 returns us to Cheeky's Week for a look at the toothy funster's doings on Thursday, and Calculator Kid, who evidently survived the revamp, enjoys a robbery-foiling adventure on page 22.  Another non-Cheeky strip to remain is Paddywack, who fills page 25 with his customary confusion.

In the final panel of page 26, Cheeky tells us that there's an all-cartoon programme in this week's cinema show.  So after an interruption on the following page featuring an advertisement for The Superkids Club, promoting the Superkids range of boots and shoes, the first cartoon, in the form of a Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf reprint from Cor!!, hits the screen.  After the interval, the second cartoon starts and the bad news is that those blasted Warner Brothers cartoon strips have survived the revamp.  This week it's flippin' Tweety and Sylvester again.

The post-cinema conclusion to Saturday occupies the back cover, and includes a new feature within the page - a puzzle introduced by one of Cheeky's pals.  It's presented by Herman, and apparently he got it from The Traffic Warden's Bumper Fun Book.

All of the Mystery Comic features with the exception of Mustapha Million are new this week, as is the Cheeky's Pal Puzzle idea on the back cover.  The Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf feature makes its second and final Cheeky Weekly appearance.

There are no debuts or departures among the Cheeky's Week cast in this issue.  As always seems to be the case with special issues (for which we're all grateful), all the Cheeky's Week art this week is pure Frank McDiarmid.  I don't include Cheeky's appearance on page 6 (which is a Barrie Appleby rendition of the toothy funster) as a Cheeky's Week feature.

In the table below, the identifier 'Mystery Comic' after a feature indicates that it appears as part of The Mystery Comic.

Cheeky Weekly	Cover Date: 30-Sep-1978, Issue 50 of 117
Page	Details
1	Cover Feature 'Mystery Comic'\Cheeky's Week (first appearance) - Art Frank McDiarmid (first art on feature)
2	Sunday - Art Frank McDiarmid
3	6 Million Dollar Gran - Art Ian Knox
4	6 Million Dollar Gran - Art Ian Knox
5	6 Million Dollar Gran - Art Ian Knox
6	Hoi! What do you get up to all week? (single appearance)\Ad: IPC 'Knockout Annual' 1 of 3
7	Monday - Art Frank McDiarmid
8	Silly Snaps
9	Silly Snaps
10	Tuesday - Art Frank McDiarmid
11	Skateboard Squad - Art Jimmy Hansen
12	Wednesday - Art Frank McDiarmid
13	Tub (first appearance) 'Mystery Comic' 1 of 34 - Art Nigel Edwards (first art on feature)
14	Why, Dad, Why? (first appearance) 'Mystery Comic' 1 of 28 - Art John K. Geering (first art on feature)
15	Mystery Boy (first appearance) reprint from Whizzer and Chips 'Mystery Comic' 1 of 37 - Art John Richardson (first art on feature)
16	Elephant On The Run (first appearance) 'Mystery Comic' 1 of 34 - Art Robert Nixon (first art on feature)
17	Elephant On The Run (first appearance) 'Mystery Comic' 1 of 34 - Art Robert Nixon (first art on feature)
18	Mustapha Million 'Mystery Comic' 1 of 34 - Art Reg Parlett
19	Mustapha Million 'Mystery Comic' 1 of 34 - Art Reg Parlett
20	Disaster Des (first appearance) 'Mystery Comic' 1 of 30 - Art Mike Lacey (first art on feature)
21	Thursday - Art Frank McDiarmid
22	Calculator Kid - Art Terry Bave
23	Joke-Box Jury
24	Friday - Art Frank McDiarmid
25	Paddywack - Art Jack Clayton
26	Saturday - Art Frank McDiarmid
27	Ad: Superkids Club (single appearance)
28	Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf? (final appearance) reprint from Cor!!
29	Interval - Art Frank McDiarmid
30	Tweety and Sylvester 'Tabs Keeping Tabby'
31	Tweety and Sylvester 'Tabs Keeping Tabby'
32	Saturday - Art Frank McDiarmid\Cheeky's Pal Puzzle (first appearance) 'Herman' - Art Frank McDiarmid (first art on feature)

Cheeky's Week Artists Cover Date 30-Sep-1978

Artist	Elements
Frank McDiarmid	10

Profile - Auntie Daisy

School dinners have been a source of playground humour since the first caveman herded a group of junior troglodytes into a cavern to teach them how to draw on the walls, and his wife slapped a pile of mastodon fritters in front of them at lunchtime.  Cheeky Weekly's creators probably thought a school dinner lady would be a popular addition to the roster of Cheeky's pals, as readers would be keen to adapt school dinner jokes and apply them to their own school canteen staff.

It would seem that Auntie Daisy the school meals lady was indeed a hit with readers, as she was absent from only 15 issues of Cheeky Weekly after her debut in the 19 November 1977 comic.  The disastrous dinner lady had been appearing regularly in the 'Ello, it's Cheeky strip in Krazy since the 12 February 1977 issue of that comic.  She continued to appear there, while also appearing in Cheeky Weekly, until Krazy's demise.  In total Daisy appeared in 102 issues of Cheeky Weekly.

Daisy's first Cheeky Weekly appearance

Cheeky's encounters with Daisy generally occurred over 3 panels.  In the first panel, Cheeky would make some disparaging remarks about her culinary skills.  Daisy would attempt to restore her tarnished reputation with a counterclaim in the second panel, and in the final frame of the sequence, the toothy funster would unleash his devastating riposte, revealing the true horror of Daisy's recipes.

When Cheeky delivered Daisy's newspaper on Sundays, smoke would often be seen wafting from her front door.

Daisy was one of the guests at Cheeky's new year party in the 07 January 1978 comic.  Nosy Norah and Libby were aghast later in the same issue when Cheeky told them that he was going to Auntie Daisy's house for a snack.  However the real reason for the toothy funster's visit was to pick up a copy of The Mystery Comic, which Daisy had concealed in her recipe book.  

It was Daisy's turn to step into the spotlight and feature throughout Cheeky's Week (apart from Tuesday) in the comic dated 22 April 1978.  On Sunday a worried-looking Cheeky learned that she would be preparing a special dish for him, and during the week our toothy pal's anxiety grew as he observed Daisy gathering various unappetising ingredients.

Climax of the 22 April 1978 issue

The clueless culinarian featured on the cover of 04 February 1978's skateboard issue, as she sped past Cheeky on her home-baked skateboard, plucking her copy of The Sunday Sausage-Burner from the toothy funster's paper delivery bag as she went.  The shocking chef was back on the cover for the 25 March 1978 issue, observing a school dinner gag from our toothy pal.  There were school canteen capers featuring the ruinous recipe wrangler on the cover of the 01 July 1978 issue, and on the front of the comic dated 26 August 1978 Daisy's brief role in keeping the army marching on its stomach is revealed.  Daisy was again on the cover, this time as a member of the Joke-Box Jury judges, on 09 September 1978.

The comical comestible creator also featured in cover strips dated 24 March 1979, 09 June 1979 and 23 June 1979.

Daisy was again among the invitees to Cheeky's new year party in the issue dated 13 January 1979.

In the comic dated 10 February 1979, it was revealed that the notorious nosh nobbler was among that elite band of Cheeky's pals who had been awarded the iron cross (Herman and Ursula being the other two).

There was an inauspicious start to the party held by Daisy for Cheeky and his pals in the 12 May 1979 issue, as the toothy funster passed a delivery man carrying boxes of indigestion tablets to the dinner demolisher's front door.  Even Crunching Chris couldn't get a sound out of Daisy's soggy biscuits.

Daisy threw her kitchen open to the public in the comic dated 18 August 1979, and this time it was her crisps that Chris (who obviously hadn't learned his lesson 3 months earlier) couldn't crunch.

A primitive form of life appears to be evolving from the roiling contents of Daisy's saucepan in the Pin-Up Pal poster which appeared in the 01 April 1978 comic, and the calamitous cook was the subject of 10 February 1979's Burpo Special.

We can only speculate as to the significance of the C on Daisy's hat - cook? chef? Something less than complimentary?  Who knows?

Character	Total Issues	First Appearance	Final Appearance
Auntie Daisy	102	19-Nov-1977	02-Feb-1980

Missing From Issues

22-Oct-1977

29-Oct-1977

05-Nov-1977

12-Nov-1977

17-Dec-1977

24-Dec-1977

21-Jan-1978

28-Jan-1978

29-Apr-1978

08-Jul-1978

19-Aug-1978

10-Mar-1979

25-Aug-1979

22-Sep-1979

29-Dec-1979

Auntie Daisy - Number of appearances by Element

Element	Number of Appearances
Tuesday	19
Saturday	18
Sunday	17
Monday	15
Thursday	15
Friday	12
Wednesday	11
Cheeky's Week	3
Cover Feature	2
Sunday evening	2
What a Cheek	2
Christmas Morning	1
New Year's Eve	1
Saturday - April Fool's Day	1
Shrove Tuesday	1
Suddenly	1

Auntie Daisy - Number of appearances by Page

Page	Number of Appearances
2	17
21	10
1	8
9	8
12	8
10	7
19	5
23	5
25	5
5	4
7	4
8	4
15	4
20	4
30	4
31	4
6	3
22	3
26	3
3	2
4	2
11	2
18	2
24	2
28	1

Count of elements by artist

Character	Artist	Total Elements
Auntie Daisy	Frank McDiarmid	60
Auntie Daisy	Mike Lacey	22
Auntie Daisy	Frank McDiarmid pencils	19
Auntie Daisy	Barrie Appleby	8
Auntie Daisy	Unknown Cheeky Artist 1	5
Auntie Daisy	Dick Millington	5
Auntie Daisy	Jim Watson	2