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Great images and the first Toots will put these on my blog with credit to you...

thanks...

philcom55 wrote:In looking up the Valda strip for another thread I couldn't help but smile at this late Bill Ritchie series in the 2002 Mandy Annual - especially as it made me think of Peter's cards!



...And isn't it nice to see him finally being allowed to initial his work?

- Phil Rushton

Hey that's a nice strip! He continued to draw "Snooty & Scamp" for German Wendy Magazine (http://www.wendy.de), and i had the honor of taking over the strip (until a disagreement with the current editor saw me recently kicked out)... at first cloning his style, then developing something my own overtime.

Before:


After:

They are really impressive Diego - thanks for showing them! I wish DC Thomson would try out a 'Best of Wendy' Special for the UK market.

- Phil Rushton

As I mentioned elsewhere I recently picked up 241 issues of The Rover some of which had Bill Ritchie covers - here are a few of them - plus one back cover:

Nice to see..if next time could you make the images larger...

Bill sure drew many covers for The Rover..

I'm still trimming and bagging those Rovers (as with all DC Thomson comics some pages protuded and became tatty so I purchased an A3 trimmer last week and have been tidying them up - they look much nicer afterwards) I did think of putting those images on full size but I am always conscious of using up too much webspace, I have this fear the forum will reach full capacity. Some of the Ritchie covers I haven't scanned yet have some nich "bunch of kids" scenes ala Baxendale's Banana Bunch, Lion Street Lot. I'll add them at full size soon.

Forum capacity is only a worry with attachments. Those images are externally uploaded to Tinypic, so I don't see any reason to skimp on webspace.

I've put the on again - full size. Now you can appreciate Bill's work in detail. They look bigger than actual size - I think if you preview them and then edit out the borders the scanner enlarges the image to fill all the vacant space.

Thats a lot better I can read it now..

Thanks for redoing them...

Thanks! Ritchie's work has made a profound impact on my own lately!

Anybody here could post some of Bill's "nursery" comics?

Diego, I put some Bill Ritchie Bimbo covers on here a few years back. They are on page five of the Artists & Writers forum dated 10.10.2008. They are still there.

http://comicsuk.co.uk/Forum/viewtopic.php?f=127&t=2271

A link to the topic mentioned above.

Lovely artwork, thanks for sharing!

Here's Bill's charming back cover for the 1966 Bimbo Annual which I picked up for a quid this morning.



To be honest I don't think he needed to make any major alterations for nursery work as his basic style seemed to appeal equally to children of all ages - not to mention adults!

- Phil Rushton

That image is worth framing and hanging on the wall. Superb. Here are those Ritchie kids covers plus a Christmas cover and an advert for the Beezer Book drawn by Bill: