Comical comics
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Page 9 of 34  Covers, Buster (IPC/Fleetway, 1963) and Whizzer and Chips (IPC/Fleetway, 1983), two of the more imaginative later titles. Art/script for 'Buster's Diary' by Reg Smythe. Art/script for Sid's Snake' by Mike Lacey. These latter two, Reid and Baxendale, were superb draughtsmen, and together pushed the art of gag strips forward. They refined how much space to leave between panels for maximum comic effect, and, most importantly, when to throw the sucker punch. (Baxendale would later write: 'Comedy is a structure, a way of thinking; a way in particular of synthesising the unlikely, the unexpected. The most incongruous things that the mind may light on, can be joined in comedy in perfect congruence.') Their cartoony rendering was perfect for the new, wackier story lines, and together they set the next industry standard after Tom Browne: after them, every artist in comics was encouraged to draw in the same manner. |