After my previous post about the weekly
output of Leo Baxendale I thought it
would be fun to check how many pages other humour comics artists were producing
in the space of one week. I picked a random week of 1974 (March 30th) and
pulled all IPC comics with that date – COR!!,
Whoopee!, Whizzer
and Chips, Shiver & Shake
and Valiant. I was disappointed to
discover that Buster didn’t come out
that week, probably because of a strike. I looked for pages by Mike Lacey, Brian Walker, Frank
McDiarmid, Terry Bave, Robert Nixon, Graham Allen and Reg Parlett.
It turns out all were at least as productive as Leo Baxendale, while some of
them proved to be real drawing machines and surpassed Leo quite considerably!
I will share my
findings in the next few blogposts. I’ll start with Frank McDiarmid. He only managed 3 pages that week – a page of Lunchin’ Vulture in Whoopee! and two beautiful pages of The Gasworks Gang in COR!! I am sure he became a lot more
productive later on when IPC put him in charge of Cheeky Weekly, but this series is a snapshot of the state of
affairs in March 1974. Come back soon to see Brian Walker’s weekly output!
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