General Nit And His Barmy Army

General Nitt and his Barmy Army The Wacks The Tiddlers Eagle-Eye Junior Spy Danny Dare Biff The Humbugs Pest of the West George's Germs Footsie the Clown Kelpie the Boy Wizard Billy Binns and his Wonderful Specs The issue came with a free gift, a quotFun Gun.quot Format

At one point, in fact, I filled in as the artist for General Nit and His Barmy Army, which was a regular feature in the British comics magazine Wham!. I forget precisely how that assignment came about, but General Nit was a Leo Baxendale invention and I suspect Baxendale had something to do with it.

The launch of the comic Wham in 1964 was promoted with an animated commercial based on Leo Baxendale's strip General Nitt and his Barmy Army. Baxendale describes his reaction to the ad in his autobiography, A Very Funny Business In the opening number I drew the Barmy Army and an enemy army charging at each other. One day everyone trooped along to a projection studio in Soho to watch a preview

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Although it did not quite match his original hopes, Wham! was a riot of invention, with Baxendale creating a whole army of new strips, from quotGeneral Nit and his Barmy Armyquot, quotGeorgie's Germsquot and quotThe Tiddlersquot to quotBiffquot and the full-colour double-page quotEagle-Eye, Junior Spyquot. Most of the strips were after the first issue, and

The vast majority of the title's early strips were created, drawn and frequently written by Baxendale - in the first issue General Nitt and his Barmy Army, The Wacks, The Tiddlers quotThe Kids from

Leo Baxendale b. Preston, Lancashire, 27 October 1930 is the creator of numerous characters in children's humour comics, including quotMinnie the Minxquot and quotThe Bash Street Kidsquot for The Beano. After doing National Service in the RAF, he was hired by the Lancashire Evening Post to draw sports cartoons and advertisements. In 1952 he began working freelance for DC Thomson's The Beano, creating

Searching my collection for interesting examples of British humour comics with a football theme to show on my blog, I found two sets by Leo Baxendale. One is Little Plum in the Beano and the other one General Nit and His Barmy Army - printed 5 years later - in Wham!