Emilios Hatjoullis is a British cartoonist and graphic designer. During the 1960s he was a designer at the Blackpool Pleasure Beach and at the Blackpool Illuminations

Blackpool Illuminations

Blackpool Illuminations is an annual Lights Festival, founded in 1879 and first switched on 18 September that year, held each autumn in the English seaside resort of Blackpool on the Fylde Coast in Lancashire....

. His works include the tableaux displays of nursery rhymes such as 'Hickory Dickory Dock' and 'Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary', which are still exhibited during the light festival in the autumn. At the Blackpool Pleasure Beach Emilios Hatjoullis helped with the design the psychedelic Candy House and the redesign of the Noah's Ark from its dated 1920s style.

At the end of the 1960s Emilios Hatjoullis went to become creative director at Brunning's advertising agency in Liverpool

Liverpool

Liverpool is a city and metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England, along the eastern side of the Mersey Estuary. It was founded as a borough in 1207 and was granted city status in 1880...

. For the local Higsons

Higsons Brewery

Higsons is a Liverpool brewery founded in 1780, closed in the 1990s, and reopened in 2005.- The beginning :Higsons Brewery was originally formed in 1780 at 64 Dale Street, Liverpool. The company brewed beer at this site until 1914, when it moved to the Windsor Brewery in Upper Parliament Street.-...

 brewery he created a series of characters called the 'Old Higsonians' named after Liverpool landmarks such as Albert Dock

Albert Dock

The Albert Dock is a complex of dock buildings and warehouses in Liverpool, England. Designed by Jesse Hartley and Philip Hardwick, it was opened in 1846, and was the first structure in Britain to be built from cast iron, brick and stone, with no structural wood...

, Penny Lane, and Ann Field. However, in 1985 the Higson's brewery was bought out by Boddingtons

Boddingtons

Boddingtons Bitter is a bitter ale originally brewed at the Strangeways Brewery, Manchester, England. It was promoted as The Cream of Manchester from the late 1980s until 2004, when the Strangeways brewery was closed and production moved to Magor, South Wales and Salmesbury, Lancashire...

 of Manchester

Manchester

Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England. According to the Office for National Statistics, the 2010 mid-year population estimate for Manchester was 498,800. Manchester lies within one of the UK's largest metropolitan areas, the metropolitan county of Greater...

 and the ad campaign was stopped, leaving a limited number of collectible breweriana merchandise.

Emilios Hatjoullis now works for the Beano

The Beano

The Beano is a British children's comic, published by D.C. Thomson & Co and is arguably their most successful.The comic first appeared on 30 July 1938, and was published weekly. During the Second World War,The Beano and The Dandy were published on alternating weeks because of paper and ink...

 comic illustrating the infantile thief Baby Face Finlayson and is pursuing his love of painting and fine art.
His style was used for a few Dennis The Menace

Dennis the Menace

Dennis the Menace may refer to:* Dennis the Menace , a daily US syndicated newspaper comic strip since March 12, 1951.**Various television and film adaptations of the comic strip:***Dennis the Menace...

 strips in 2002, but it's not known if it actually was him. He drew Baby Face Finlayson

Baby Face Finlayson

Baby Face Finlayson was a fictional character in a comic strip in the UK comic The Beano, first appearing in issue 1553, dated 22 April 1972...

 between 2004 and 2007 for the comic, and had drawn Merboy a few times too.

External links

• Examples of some of the Old Higsonian characters: Old Higsonians
• History and images of the Blackpool Illuminations: The Lights
• Visit Baby Face and other Beano characters: Beano Town