Showing posts with label Bill Hill. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bill Hill. Show all posts

Wednesday, 28 October 2009

Bill Hill's L Cars title panels in Sparky.

This is the classic title panel of L Cars..


From 1973 onwards the title panels became really good fun and different each week...

















I was going to do a blog post on Sparky comic logos..But I was so impressed with the L Cars one it seemed a good idea to highlight it...just love it..

Having a unique title gave you extra fun.

Tuesday, 6 October 2009

More of Bill Hill's comic work and early work..









note the brick layer in Banana Bunch...see below..












Some images from Spy. At comicsuk forum
www.comicsuk.co.uk
and
Dennis the Menace Beano and Dandy forum.really worth joining and seeing so many comic images..

http://tiptopgolfy.proboards.com/index.cgi


Before he began drawing for the comics in the early 1960's Bill had provided cartoons and one-line strips for the Thomson women's papers like Red Star Weekly for nearly twenty years. One long-running example which he drew from 1946 being, if memory serves, a laugh at life strip titled 'The Robinsons'. His early work being done to supplement his income from his day to day employment as a bricklayer.
Off hand his Beezer strips were Banana Bunch, Tommy Taylor's Toybox (both taken over from Leo Baxendale), Black Bun, and Roly Poly Joe. I'll check on others.

A couple of other examples of his work from Beezer are Pedro the Pesky Parrot and Wrinkle and Twinkle. He also had a stint on Nosey Parker in the Sparky.
Kashgar.


thanks Kashgar.Bill did often draw Builders in his comic page.now we know why...



philcom55 has put up some early work of Bill's up at comicsuk forum..thanks Phil..
http://www.comicsuk.co.uk/Forum/viewtopic.php?f=127&t=3056

Sunday, 27 September 2009

Bill Hill's Beezer comic work..

all from the Beezer late 60's..early 70's



When characters had funny accents..



I like the laughter at the end and the lady with the flowerpot hat..



Some great expressions on the animals faces..and great surprise ending..
of course to me Bill's best work is Sparky's L Cars..I'll show on another post..

Thanks to Spy for the scans..taken from the Dennis the Menace forum..
http://tiptopgolfy.proboards.com