Tom Paterson (born April 22, 1954) is a
Scottish comic
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artist
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who drew characters for
Fleetway
Fleetway Publications was a magazine publishing company based in London.
History
It was founded in 1959 when the Mirror Group acquired the Amalgamated Press, then based at Fleetway House, Farringdon Street, London. It was one of the companies t ...
in 1973–1990, and
D.C Thomson from 1986 to 2012. As of 2013, he currently draws strips for
Viz.
Taking stylistic inspiration from
Leo Baxendale's work on
The Bash Street Kids
''The Bash Street Kids'' is a comic strip in the British comic magazine '' The Beano''. It also appeared briefly in The Wizard as series of prose stories in 1955. The strip, created by Leo Baxendale as ''When the Bell Rings!'', first appear ...
, Paterson's talent as a cartoonist was discovered at the age of sixteen by original Dandy editor
Albert Barnes, who was impressed with the cartoon samples Paterson had sent to him. Barnes offered the young artist a chance to collaborate with him on a strip called ''The Dangerous Dumplings'' (which would later be retooled as The Doyle Family for the Dandy), which was to become the leading strip of a new comic Barnes was developing, but the project was scrapped when Barnes retired and Paterson was hired to work for IPC after leaving school. When Baxendale left IPC to publish his own work, Paterson took over as artist for several of his strips, including ''Sweeny Toddler'' and ''Grimly Feendish''. Many of his comic strips feature a single, striped sock standing upright on the ground that appears once in each story that acts as a trademark.
He is famous for drawing comics such as:
Fleetway
* Grimly Feendish from Shiver and Shake
*
Buster from ''
Buster'' comic
*
Guy Gorilla from ''
Whizzer and Chips''
*
Horace and Doris from ''Whizzer and Chips''
*
Strange Hill from ''Whizzer and Chips''
*
Robert's Robot from ''Whizzer and Chips''
*
Watford Gapp from ''Whizzer and Chips''
*
Crow Jak from ''
Buster'' and ''
Monster Fun''
*
Scooper from ''
Jackpot''
*
Full 'O' Beans from ''Jackpot''
*
Jake's Seven from ''Jackpot''
*
The Park from ''Jackpot''
*
School Belle from ''
School Fun''
*
Team Mates from ''
Wow!''
*
Sweeny Toddler for ''
Whoopee'' and later ''Whizzer and Chips''
D.C Thomson
''The Beano''
*
Calamity James
*
The Numskulls
*
Minnie the Minx
*
Dennis the Menace
*
Fred's Bed (reprints and new strips)
*
Bash Street Kids - Singled Out
*
Roger the Dodger
*
Billy Whizz (Beano annuals 2008 and 2010)
*
Ivy the Terrible
*
Ball Boy
* Little Larry
''Beezer''
*
The Banana Bunch
*
Fred's Bed (
Beezer and
Topper)
*
Phoot and Mouse
*
The Numskulls
''The Dandy''
*
Beryl the Peril
*
Bananaman
*
Brain Duane
*
Euro School
*
Fiddle 'o' Diddle
*
Freddy the Fearless Fly
*
Hyde & Shriek
*
Laughing Planet
*
Mutant Cow
*
Rasper
Brain Duane
Brain Duane was a comic strip in
The Dandy. It was about a nerdy bald inventor whose inventions would always go wrong. It was drawn by Tom Paterson between 1997 and 2005 before it was taken over by
Duncan Scott. The strip disappeared when the comic became Dandy Xtreme. He returned in the 2012 Dandy Annual drawn by
Steve Beckett. He was one of the characters featured in the PC game,
Beanotown Racing.
Other
''Viz''
* Wee Radge Joe
* Nash Gordon
* Foul-Mouthed Super-Obese Mobility Scooter Woman
''Moose Kid Comics''
* Beelzababy
References
External links
Official Site Fan site
1954 births
20th-century births
Living people
Scottish comics artists
Scottish humorists
The Dandy people
The Beano people
Dennis the Menace and Gnasher
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