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| Art: Dick Milington |
Cheeky
is joined on this week's cover by Doctor Braincell for horological hi-jinks drawn by Dick Millington.
Dick's contribution to this issue of Cheeky Weekly continues on page 2 where Cheeky is so preoccupied with
gag-delivery that he parts with only one Sunday
newspaper.
This
week's is a classic 6 Million Dollar Gran strip, with some enjoyably
surreal images from the mind of Ian Knox, as Gran encounters a surly
scout master. It's evident from the rather sparse area at the right of the final panel
that the strip was originally drawn with the
Cheeky-watching-TV-conclusion, but the artwork has been altered to
conform to the new 'no framing devices' editorial policy that was
implemented as of the 07 July 1979 'new look' issue.
On
Monday Dick Millington seems to base one of his depictions of the
toothy funster on a distinctive pose that Frank McDiarmid was
evidently so pleased with that he drew it 3 times in the 21 April 1979 issue...
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| Art: Dick Millington |
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| Art: Frank McDiarmid from Cheeky Weekly 21 April 1979. The centre image is the one on which Dick seems to have based the leftmost panel of his work above. |
The concluding panel of this week's The Gang suggests to me that it may have been the final episode of the strip's original run in Whizzer and Chips. Thanks to Raven for confirming in the comment below that it was in fact the last Double Deckers episode.
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| Art: Robert MacGillivray |
Speaking of conclusions, this is the 18th and final week
of IPC's 1979 Star Guest promotion, and Bookworm is the last guest
to pay a visit, with a rather atypical story in
which Whoopee's bibliophile buddy spends most of the strip unconscious and subsequently exhibits symptoms of concussion. Not a very good choice of script for
promotional purposes I would suggest.
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| Art: Barry Glennard |
On Tuesday Cheeky introduces a new pal, the jovial joiner and woodwork wit, Mr. Chips.
Stage School Teacher has a classroom clash with a miniature Frank Carson - caution some of the humour in these clips would be considered inappropriate today - who
seems to be confusing his catchphrases with those of Basil Brush - caution some of the advice in this clip would be considered by some to be 'health and safety gone mad' today.
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| Art: Robert Nixon |
On Friday Dick
Millington includes a reference to his Cheeky Weekly colleague (I made this as large as possible but you'll still have to click on it to see the relevant detail)...
Cheeky's Week concludes
with a Saturday spent at Doodle Doug's art class, and the comic
rounds off with Snail of the Century in colour on the back cover.
Dick Millington
supplies all of Cheeky's Sunday to Saturday strips, with Frank
McDiarmid delivering Snail of the Century. This is the last time Dick
will draw Thursday, Friday and Saturday, but he will supply artwork
in one more edition of Cheeky Weekly.
Cheeky's Week Artists Cover Date 28-Jul-1979
| Artist | Elements |
| Dick Millington | 8 |
| Frank McDiarmid | 1 |
| Cheeky Weekly | Cover Date: 28-Jul-1979, Issue 90 of 117 |
| Page | Details |
| 1 | Cover Feature 'Dr Braincell' 1 of 3 - Art Dick Millington (single art on feature) |
| 2 | Sunday - Art Dick Millington |
| 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 | What's New, Kids |
| 7 | Monday - Art Dick Millington |
| 8 | The Gang reprint from Whizzer and Chips - Art Robert MacGillivray |
| 9 | The Gang reprint from Whizzer and Chips - Art Robert MacGillivray |
| 10 | Joke-Box Jury |
| 11 | Star Guest (final appearance) 'Bookworm' - Art Barry Glennard (final art on feature) |
| 12 | Tuesday - Art Dick Millington |
| 13 | Disaster Des - Art Mike Lacey |
| 14 | Stage School - Art Robert Nixon |
| 15 | Stage School - Art Robert Nixon |
| 16 | Elephant On The Run - Art Robert Nixon |
| 17 | Calculator Kid - Art Terry Bave |
| 18 | Wednesday - Art Dick Millington |
| 19 | Mystery Boy reprint from Whizzer and Chips - Art John Richardson |
| 20 | Mustapha Million - Art Joe McCaffrey |
| 21 | Mustapha Million - Art Joe McCaffrey |
| 22 | Thursday - Art Dick Millington (final art on feature) |
| 23 | Ad: IPC 'Puzzle Time' 2 of 6 \Ad: North Pacific Flyers (final appearance) |
| 24 | Chit-Chat |
| 25 | Chit-Chat |
| 26 | Friday - Art Dick Millington (final art on feature) |
| 27 | Why, Dad, Why? - Art John K. Geering |
| 28 | Paddywack - Art Jack Clayton |
| 29 | Paddywack - Art Jack Clayton |
| 30 | Saturday - Art Dick Millington (final art on feature) |
| 31 | Saturday - Art Dick Millington (final art on feature) |
| 32 | Snail of the Century - Art Frank McDiarmid |
What sign...what bus...all I can see is Lily pop sigh!!!! ;)
ReplyDeleteYou're right about the Deckers strip being the last of its original Whizzer and Chips run - from the 13th May 1972 issue. The "But we'll be back in time for next week's story!" speech balloon was added for the Cheeky Weekly reprint!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the confirmation!
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