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Sunday 17 December 2017

1981 - A Cheeky Christmas part 3

This third installment of my look through the Christmas 1981 issue of Whoopee! in order to observe the seasonal adventures of our Cheeky Weekly pals who had survived the cancellation of their comic brings us to page 13's Christmas Quiz Time, a workout for Xmas-pud-addled brains that featured the toothy funster and his chums (including Paddywack who was for some reason absent from the cover of that festive edition). I have already posted about this page, so I'll direct you here for the full info.

Next up is Cheeky himself, now in somewhat reduced circumstances. Once he was the star of his own comic, and had begun his Whoopee! run with 5 pages a week, but Christmas '81 finds our grinning pal confined to a 2-page centre spread, and even then he has to share it with strips featuring his slimy sidekick and a bearded, jolly fellow who gets very busy at the end of December. Nevertheless Frank McDiarmid packs the space with a welter of Yuletide gags, as Cheeky meets a good number of his Krazy Town pals. Sadly there's no slap-up feed but the feature concludes with a nice sentiment courtesy of the man with the sleigh and reindeer.

Whoopee! 26 December 1981
Art: Frank McDiarmid


More from Whoopee! at Christmas '81 soon,

2 comments:

  1. you can tell Frank needed 4 pages to make this work at least..
    nice to see Lily pop!

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    1. Yes, it's a bit sad to see Cheeky reduced to 2 pages. Maybe a double page spread showing Cheeky's Christmas party with a load of his pals would have been better, but the editor obviously decided to keep the multi-strip format of Cheeky's Week/Tee-Hee TV/Cheeky's Snail/Cheeky's Pal that had been in place in Whoopee! since the 12 September 1981 issue. Frank does a good job nonetheless.

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