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Showing posts with label Timothy Tester. Show all posts
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Tuesday, March 14, 2017

Timothy Tester (1972)

I was never too enamoured by most of the strips in Whizzer and Chips but there were some that really stood out as something different to the formula. One being Timothy Tester, a two page strip that began in the comic in 1972.

The strip was drawn by Cliff Brown, and I suspect he may have scripted it too as he was the writer of Scream Inn for Shiver and Shake. Brown's distinctive style made a refreshing change to the Reg Parlett / Leo Baxendale style that many artists were using at the time. I have to confess that his style was one that influenced me in some ways. Not that I ever copied any figures but I can see now that I'd subconsciously added it to the mix when I was developing my own style years later. 

Does anyone know if Cliff Brown is still around? I think the last time I saw his work was in a puzzle magazine we both contributed to in the 1990s.

Anyway, without further ado, here are three marvellous Timothy Tester strips from Whizzer and Chips in the summer of 1972. A good, lively strip, and perhaps it has potential for a future collection by Rebellion? 







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