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Friday 25 May 2018

Cheeky Weekly cover date 22 December 1979

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…

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.


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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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
PageDetails
1Cover Feature 'Constable Chuckle' 2 of 2 - Art Mike Lacey (final art on feature)
2Sunday - Art Frank McDiarmid
3Calculator Kid - Art Terry Bave
4Paddywack - Art Jack Clayton
5Monday - Art Frank McDiarmid
6Stage School - Art Robert Nixon
7Stage School - Art Robert Nixon
8Junior Jet Club Competition (single appearance)
9Tub - Art Nigel Edwards
10Tuesday - Art Frank McDiarmid
11Soggy the Sea Monster reprint from Shiver and Shake - Art Robert Nixon
12Disaster Des - Art Mike Lacey
13Cheeky's Cut-Out Comedy Catalogue 'Constable Chuckle Jokes'
14Cheeky's Cut-Out Comedy Catalogue 'Constable Chuckle Jokes'
15Wednesday - Art Frank McDiarmid
16Mustapha Million - Art Joe McCaffrey
17Mustapha Million - Art Joe McCaffrey
18The Gang reprint from Whizzer and Chips - Art Robert MacGillivray
19The Gang reprint from Whizzer and Chips - Art Robert MacGillivray
20Thursday - Art Mike Lacey
21Why, Dad, Why? - Art John K. Geering
22Joke-Box Jury
23Snail of the Century - Art Frank McDiarmid
246 Million Dollar Gran - Art Ian Knox
256 Million Dollar Gran - Art Ian Knox
26Friday - Art Mike Lacey
27Ad: IPC 'Cheeky Weekly: Christmas Issue next week'Ad: 'Cheeky Annual' 6 of 6
28Speed Squad - Art Jimmy Hansen
29Chit-Chat
30Saturday - Art Mike Lacey
31Saturday - Art Mike Lacey
32Elephant On The Run - Art Robert Nixon


Cheeky's Week Artists Cover Date 22-Dec-1979
Artist Elements
Frank McDiarmid5
Mike Lacey4

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