Time for the second guest appearance at Scream
Inn that can be found in SHIVER AND SHAKE No. 52 cover-dated March
2nd, 1974.
This is quite an unusual example: firstly, it was in
fact Scream
Inn that appeared in another strip; secondly, the strip itself was a
guest from Shiver and Shake’s
sister comic: Timothy Tester ran for quite a while (1972 – 1979) in WHIZZER
AND CHIPS. The illustrator and presumably the writer of Timothy Tester was Cliff
Brown who lived not far from Scream Inn artist Brian Walker. In
his interview for GOLDEN FUN fanzine (Winter 1979) Brian Walker said that Cliff
would come over to Brian’s studio for a day each week and they’d go over the
script of Scream Inn together. It looks like that week they spent more time
together because the two pages below are clearly the result of a joint effort!
What a great story...and a good advert for both comics and Cor!!
ReplyDeleteGreat to see the two artists drawing their own regular characters. Brian Walker later engaged in another collaborative project, this time with Barrie Appleby on a strip that ran on 5 occasions in Cheeky Weekly.
ReplyDeleteThat's a nice collaboration, I didn't know about it. It is interesting to see Brian Walker draw in a realistic style. I have a complete set of Cheeky Weekly but haven't got round to going through it thoroughly. Your excellent blog compensates for it :)
DeleteI was never much of a fan of Timothy Tester. Give me Harry's Haunted House and Ginger any day.
ReplyDeleteI find Timothy Tester quite amusing and I like Cliff Brown's distinctive style.
DeleteTim’s last appearance was 6/10/79 - a week too soon for a slice of Whizzer & Chips' 10th birthday cake! Alas by this point reprints had been in place for a while, but he had a run few strips would complain about. The last story features PC Flatfoot having nightmares about falling foul of Tim’s testing innumerable times in the past. We hear him howl he can take no more; an appropriate if uncomfortable way to take our leave of Tim and co.
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