Martin Baxendale - what happened to him?

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Martin Baxendale - what happened to him?

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Looking at a Whoopee Summer Special (bound for ebay) and noticed the Sweeny Toddler back page strip was drawn by Martin Baxendale. Is he still drawing?

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Re: Martin Baxendale - what happened to him?

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He was still doing Kid Comic in 1985 for Whoopee (see example attached).

Interesting that he imitated the Sweeny Toddler artist Tom Paterson, style quite well. :)
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Martin Baxendale writes and draws funny books like 'Life after 40' and 'Life after 50'. Like almost everyone else he was out of a job drawing comics once Fleetway finally closed down with the last Buster.
Not hard for him to imitate Tom Paterson! Tom Paterson imitated Martin's dad, Leo Baxendale, so I suppose it's fair!
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My favourite Martin Baxendale strip was Deadly Headley in Buster, around 1980. Written by the late Mark Rodgers who went on to edit Oink!

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