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| Art: copied-and-pasted Mike Lacey |
It’s issue number 111 of the toothy funster’s comic and the cover
is still describing 6 Million Dollar Gran as being bionic when she
was clearly depicted as a robot way back in the first edition. A
‘five papers contest’ is also announced, while Cheeky engages in
constabulary banter, the visuals for which have been copied and
pasted from the Monday page in Cheeky Weekly dated 01 September 1979.
The canny Cheeky Weekly editor has not only dipped into the archives in order to decorate the cover, he’s swept the cobwebs off the Cheeky’s Week artwork that has been languishing in his desk since it was delivered to him a year ago. He wasn’t able to use it at that time as publication of our favourite comic was suspended for 3weeks in December 1978 so, with a few judicious alterations, the Christmas run-up issue finally gets an airing. I covered the lost Christmas issues a while back so I’ll be linking to those earlier posts as we progress through this week’s edition, starting with Sunday, which finds Cheeky distributing Christmas cards along with the Sunday papers.
The ever-impecunious Charlie is worried that he can’t afford to buy
Christmas presents and as if that wasn’t bad enough, his aunt has
sent him a new winter outfit…
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| Art: Calculator Kid - Terry Bave, Cheeky Chuckles - Mike Lacey Not sure why Calculator Kid was truncated and didn't fill a whole page. Cheeky Chuckles is obviously a filler using Mike Lacey single-panel gags that had probably previously appeared elsewhere. |
Cheeky’s card deliveries continue on Monday.
A typically unpleasant Tub episode concerns the eponymous glutton’s
attempts to elicit food from various folk by faking fainting fits,
and concludes with the portly protagonist about to receive a
thrashing.
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| Art: Nigel Edwards |
Then it’s Tuesday.
Unlike
Calculator Kid, Disaster Des has no worries about funding his mum’s
Christmas present, but the owner of the department store he visits is
more than a little upset.
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| Art: Mike Lacey |
This
week’s Cut-Out Comedy Catalogue consists of Constable Chuckle
jokes, and features on its cover the same copied and pasted image of
the comical copper as adorns page 1.
Cheeky's Wednesday doings then come under scrutiny.
Christmas expenditure poses no problem for Mustapha Million.
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| Art: Joe McCaffrey |
As of Thursday, Cheeky's Week artwork duties pass from Frank McDiarmid to Mike
Lacey.
This
issue’s episode of Snail of the Century, unusually
situated on page 23 instead of its customary back cover location,
isn’t held over from last year as the feature didn’t begin until
the 14 July 1979 issue, but the story has been crafted to reflect the
‘Cheeky distributing Christmas cards’ theme running through the
year-old Cheeky’s Week.
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| Art: Frank McDiarmid Was this strip originally intended for its usual back cover location, with Snail's original speech balloon saying 'after a week of handing out Christmas cards'? |
To compound the front cover’s incorrect description of the
synthetic senior citizen’s attributes, there are 3 erroneous
references to Gran’s bionic nature in her strip this week.
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| Art: Ian Knox |
Which brings us to Friday.
Christmas issue and Annual excitement builds on page 27.
There’s a nice letter about Frank McDiarmid on the Chit-Chat
page...
Following which Saturday rounds off the Cheeky’s Week elements of
this issue.
As mentioned earlier, Snail of the Century has been displaced from
the back cover this week, being supplanted by a pre-Christmas episode of Elephant On The Run.
Frank McDiarmid delivers 5 Cheeky's Week elements, while Mike Lacey provides 4 (although his cover is a copy-and-pasted concoction constructed, presumably, by an art assistant in the Cheeky office).
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| Art: Robert Nixon |
Frank McDiarmid delivers 5 Cheeky's Week elements, while Mike Lacey provides 4 (although his cover is a copy-and-pasted concoction constructed, presumably, by an art assistant in the Cheeky office).
| Cheeky Weekly | Cover Date: 22-Dec-1979, Issue 111 of 117 |
| Page | Details |
| 1 | Cover Feature 'Constable Chuckle' 2 of 2 - Art Mike Lacey (final art on feature) |
| 2 | Sunday - Art Frank McDiarmid |
| 3 | Calculator Kid - Art Terry Bave |
| 4 | Paddywack - Art Jack Clayton |
| 5 | Monday - Art Frank McDiarmid |
| 6 | Stage School - Art Robert Nixon |
| 7 | Stage School - Art Robert Nixon |
| 8 | Junior Jet Club Competition (single appearance) |
| 9 | Tub - Art Nigel Edwards |
| 10 | Tuesday - Art Frank McDiarmid |
| 11 | Soggy the Sea Monster reprint from Shiver and Shake - Art Robert Nixon |
| 12 | Disaster Des - Art Mike Lacey |
| 13 | Cheeky's Cut-Out Comedy Catalogue 'Constable Chuckle Jokes' |
| 14 | Cheeky's Cut-Out Comedy Catalogue 'Constable Chuckle Jokes' |
| 15 | Wednesday - Art Frank McDiarmid |
| 16 | Mustapha Million - Art Joe McCaffrey |
| 17 | Mustapha Million - Art Joe McCaffrey |
| 18 | The Gang reprint from Whizzer and Chips - Art Robert MacGillivray |
| 19 | The Gang reprint from Whizzer and Chips - Art Robert MacGillivray |
| 20 | Thursday - Art Mike Lacey |
| 21 | Why, Dad, Why? - Art John K. Geering |
| 22 | Joke-Box Jury |
| 23 | Snail of the Century - Art Frank McDiarmid |
| 24 | 6 Million Dollar Gran - Art Ian Knox |
| 25 | 6 Million Dollar Gran - Art Ian Knox |
| 26 | Friday - Art Mike Lacey |
| 27 | Ad: IPC 'Cheeky Weekly: Christmas Issue next week'Ad: 'Cheeky Annual' 6 of 6 |
| 28 | Speed Squad - Art Jimmy Hansen |
| 29 | Chit-Chat |
| 30 | Saturday - Art Mike Lacey |
| 31 | Saturday - Art Mike Lacey |
| 32 | Elephant On The Run - Art Robert Nixon |
Cheeky's Week Artists Cover Date 22-Dec-1979
| Artist | Elements |
| Frank McDiarmid | 5 |
| Mike Lacey | 4 |
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