Dave Follows (3 October 1941 – 17 October 2003)
was a British
cartoonist
A cartoonist is a visual artist who specializes in both drawing and writing cartoons (individual images) or comics (sequential images). Cartoonists differ from comics writers or comic book illustrators in that they produce both the literary an ...
best known for his comic strip ''
Creature Feature''.
Career
Follows was born in
Stafford
Stafford () is a market town and the county town of Staffordshire, in the West Midlands region of England. It lies about north of Wolverhampton, south of Stoke-on-Trent and northwest of Birmingham. The town had a population of 70,145 in ...
,
Staffordshire, England. His first published cartoon was for the ''Stafford Advertiser'' in 1971.
His animal
comic strip ''The Creature Feature'' appeared weekly in the ''
Sunday Times
''The Sunday Times'' is a British newspaper whose circulation makes it the largest in Britain's quality press market category. It was founded in 1821 as ''The New Observer''. It is published by Times Newspapers Ltd, a subsidiary of News UK, wh ...
'' supplement, ''
Funday Times
The ''Funday Times'' was a section of the UK '' Sunday Times.'' It was intended mainly for children, and included several comic strips, including ''Dennis and Gnasher'', '' Rex and Tex'', ''Beryl the Peril'', '' Fans Utd.'', ''Scooby-Doo'', '' ...
'', from 1990 to 2006. ''The Creature Feature'' was also syndicated in over 30 newspapers throughout the world. Follows supplied other strips for newspapers including the
North Staffordshire
The federation of Stoke-on-Trent was the 1910 amalgamation of the six Staffordshire Potteries towns of Burslem, Tunstall, Stoke-upon-Trent, Hanley, Fenton and Longton into the single county borough of Stoke-on-Trent. An anomaly in the history ...
's ''
The Sentinel'', where his strip ''
May un Mar Lady'' appeared daily from 8 July 1985 to 3 October 2003. It is republished in that newspaper under the title ''May Un Mar Lady Revisited''.
When the British comic book ''
Eagle
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'' was relaunched in the 1980s, Follows' designed the mascot character, Ernie the Eagle, and produced various weekly ''Ernie'' cartoons.
He drew Wonder Wellies, written by Roy Davis, in the comic ''
Buster'' from 17 September 1983 until August 1985.
Follows was a member of
The Cartoonists' Club of Great Britain.
Personal life
Follow was married to wife Audrey for 38 years at the time of his death from cancer.
The couple had three children, sons Darren, Steve, and Chris.
Steve is the guitarist in the Stafford-based band
Bradbray Apartment.
References
External links
Dave Followsofficial website
Archivedfrom the original on April 22, 2016.
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British cartoonists
British comics artists
British comics writers
1941 births
2003 deaths
People from Stafford