I could be wrong but I think 'Humpy Dumpy' was another example of George's 'light adventure' work. The final episode shown below comes from Bunty no.417 ( January 8th 1966) and is reminiscent of the many excursions into weirdness that the comic specialized in during that period - particularly those stories drawn by Robert Macgillivray.Kashgar wrote:George was renowned for his ability to draw pretty girls like PC Peggy and this to a large extent would inform those strips that would take up the latter part of his career as a light adventure strip artist working mainly for the D C Thomson girls papers... Other Thomson girls paper strips included A Bed called Fred and Lydia and the Little People for Bunty and Queen Irena for Debbie.
Would that include Lionel Grumbling, the regular announcer of Radio Fun's 'In Town This Week' I wonder?One interesting quirk that George Parlett did have was that he would often draw himself into his own comic strips as a subsidiary character. The giveaway being his mop of curly blonde hair which, very early on in his comic career, had earned him the nickname "Froth" around the AP editorial offices.
n.b. The above scan is taken from Denis Gifford and Mike Higgs' oversize book 'Comics at War' - an excellent resource that I can't recommend highly enough to anyone with an interest in the comics of that period. As the back cover says, it's packed full with "All The Fun Of The War!"
- Phil Rushton
