I will take a short break from Frankie Stein and Monster Fun Comic and show something else instead. It is not very often that one gets to see original Ken Reid artwork offered on eBay and last week fans had one of those rare opportunities, actually, two of them. Two pages of sketches were up for auction. I can recognise Big Head and Thick Head as well as Jonah’s sister Jinx in the first one, so it must be from 1963 or 1964. The page with artwork on both sides sold for £108.23:
Fudge the Elf is
the centre-figure of the second page which was offered in a separate auction. I
think I can also recongise a policeman and a thief from Ali-Ha-Ha and the 40 Thieves.
I will take a guess that the page is from the early 60s before Ken had given up
drawing Fudge the Elf for Manchester Evening News. There is also a
possibility that the page is from a later period, perhaps 1963, after Ken recovered
from his nervous breakdown. If that’s the case, the artist probably sketched Fudge
the Elf for his own pleasure, reminiscing about the character that he had
created and drawn for so many years. Oh, and isn’t that Ken Reid’s self-portrait
on the other side? The page sold for £173.00:
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