Simon Mackie has started a blog dedicated to the glory days of The Beezer, a comic I remember with great fondness from my youth. The Beezer came in a large, tabloid format (much like DC’s recent Wednesday Comics experiment) similar to sister publication The Topper (another of my childhood reads), which it eventually merged with and I’m sure many of you who were kids in the 60s or 70s remember spreading out the big pages on the living room floor, making yourself comfortable lying down, chin on your hands, to read it (preferably in a spot that made the adults of the house have to keep stepping over you). In its heyday The Beezer boasted contributors like Dudley Watkins, Mal Judge and Leo Baxendale. Simon is still trying to fill some gaps in his collection for certain years, so if you are able to help him drop him a line. (via Down The Tubes)
(oh boy do these wee guys take me back – the Numbskulls by Mal Judge, the little men who lived inside their human and ran all his various bodily operations)
Wed, Jan 20, 2010
Comics and cartoons