tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32738097.post4340587500432785930..comments2024-03-26T22:05:12.894+00:00Comments on Bear Alley: Daily Sketch strips 21 July 1969Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12010426017572710283noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32738097.post-88964129107831547552020-10-28T22:38:36.213+00:002020-10-28T22:38:36.213+00:00Focus on Fact appeared in the Daily Sketch until (...Focus on Fact appeared in the Daily Sketch until (I think) 1971. The Sketch was merged with the Daily Mail, so it may have appeared there, but I must admit that's just a guess.Stevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12010426017572710283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32738097.post-27205465483924064532020-10-28T17:27:10.365+00:002020-10-28T17:27:10.365+00:00Thanks for the information about Neville Randall. ...Thanks for the information about Neville Randall. I have come across 10 cut-out newspaper strips inside an old book that belonged to my uncle... FOCUS ON FACT - Yesterday’s Christmas By Gary Keane and Neville Randall. In 10 instalments. From December 1980. Do you know what paper they would have been cut out of? Dinadanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00017716084898695553noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32738097.post-56149113693073494972013-01-14T07:45:05.427+00:002013-01-14T07:45:05.427+00:00Hi Nicky,
Thanks for the correction.Hi Nicky,<br /><br />Thanks for the correction.Stevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12010426017572710283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32738097.post-87279387598754548802013-01-14T00:09:44.711+00:002013-01-14T00:09:44.711+00:00Hugh Morren, creator of Wack worked, at Lawrence a...Hugh Morren, creator of Wack worked, at Lawrence and Scotts factory in Norwich where he was born in 1921. He said this was the inspiration for the the workshy Wack. He moved to Manchester in the 1940`s where he worked for the Manchester evening News creating football pocket cartoons for the Manchester Evening News after the Saturday match. He found work with DC Thompson and never looked backnickyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07526172455595067126noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32738097.post-4424645607320008752008-09-08T00:50:00.000+01:002008-09-08T00:50:00.000+01:00Thanks for the glimpses of these rarely-seen strip...Thanks for the glimpses of these rarely-seen strips Steve. Good solid storytelling & artwork. I miss the adventure strips in newspapers today.<BR/><BR/>We had the Daily Mirror every day throughout the sixties but on the occasion it was sold out we'd have the Daily Sketch (or, later, The Sun). 'Wack' transfered over to The Sun later, presumably when the Sketch folded.<BR/><BR/>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com