Thursday 23 May 2013

Harold's Hare Own comic meet Moony! with input from Phil Rushton

From the same issue..How on earth did he create fruit!! Odd Ball eat your heart out!!

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Though it only ran for about four and a half years Harold Hare's Own Paper featured some memorable strips, including Harold himself, Flopsy, Wendy and her Toby Jug, Mr. Toad, Katie Country Mouse, Gulliver Guinea-Pig, Dagwood Duck, Pinky & Perky, Torchy the Battery Boy. Pinocchio, the little horses, Snuggles and the Wonderful Island of Yum.

However, my personal favourite had to be the shape-changing alien Moony from the Moon - originally drawn by the Italian Antonio Lupatelli (aka 'Tony Wolf'), and then by Manchester's own John Donnelly. Unfortunately I don't have any original artwork from the actual strips but here's a nice, one-off drawing of the character by Donnelly:

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...It's a matter of enduring regret to me that I didn't pump John for details of his career in British comics when I went to art college with his son during the 1970s! Sadly, I only really cared about American superhero comics at the time! :(

- Phil Rushton


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2 comments:

John Pitt said...

Flippin' eck! That's taken me back!!

John Pitt said...

My mother used to buy me Topsy - Turvey Harold Hare's Own Paper every week when I was a nipper. I used to have them all till I switched over to Huckleberry Hound Weekly when it came out. Am I right in thinking that Moony was later reprinted in The Bimbo ? I seem to recall seeing him again in my younger brother's comics in the 60's .