Jim Petrie
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Jim Petrie was a British comic artist. He is most notable for drawing 2,000 episodes of Minnie the Minx
, a comic strip featured in The Beano
, after taking over from the strips original artist Leo Baxendale
in 1961. Jim Petries first Minnie the Minx strip appeared in The Beano dated 6 June 1961 and featured Minnie destroying her mother's feather duster
to make a red indian headdress and taking her friends captive this strip ended with Minnie being caught by her father and being spanked by her father with a slipper, a common end for a comic strip from this era.
As well as drawing Minnie the Minx, he drew a Minnie the Minx spinoff featuring Fatty Fudge
a recurring character from Minnie the Minx. This strip featured Fatty Fudge in food based parodies of popular films such as a parody of The Hound of the Baskervilles
entitled Hound of the Picnic Basket. These strips ended in 1991 and have recently been reprinted in the Beano's Retro Beano section.
Other than these two strips Jim Petrie also drew The Sparky People in the comic of that name, Sneaker
for The Dandy
, Says Smiffy and What to do with a sleeping dad for The Beano. He also drew Billy Green and his Sister Jean, which appeared in the Dandy annuals of 1993 and 1994. Petrie eventually decided to retire with his final strip (a Minnie the Minx strip) appearing on the 13th January, 2001. The story consisted of Minnie meeting her former artist and bidding farewell. The strip was Petrie's 2000th and last, a tally for one artist drawing the same strip in the Beano only surpassed by David Sutherland on the Bash Street Kids. He is still open to drawing one more strip for The Beano, as Beanotown.com revealed he might just do that, if good pun names come up for a one-off Fatty Fudge later in 2011.
He came out of retirement on the 1st of October 2011, and started working for DC Thomson again.
Minnie the Minx
Minnie the Minx is a fictional character in the British comic The Beano. Created and originally drawn by Leo Baxendale, she first appeared in issue 596, dated 19 December 1953 making her the third longest running Beano character, behind only Dennis the Menace and Roger the Dodger...
, a comic strip featured in 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...
, after taking over from the strips original artist Leo Baxendale
Leo Baxendale
Leo Baxendale is a British cartoonist, who was the creator of the classic Beano strips Little Plum , Minnie the Minx , The Bash Street Kids and The Three Bears .Leo Baxendale was at the end of his National Service days in the RAF, when he decided he...
in 1961. Jim Petries first Minnie the Minx strip appeared in The Beano dated 6 June 1961 and featured Minnie destroying her mother's feather duster
Feather duster
A feather duster is an implement used for cleaning. It consists typically of a wooden-dowel handle and feathers from either the male or female ostrich bird that are wound onto the handle by a wrapped wire. Dusters vary in size by are most often between 14" and 32" in total length. Some dusters...
to make a red indian headdress and taking her friends captive this strip ended with Minnie being caught by her father and being spanked by her father with a slipper, a common end for a comic strip from this era.
As well as drawing Minnie the Minx, he drew a Minnie the Minx spinoff featuring Fatty Fudge
Fatty Fudge
Fatty Fudge is a cartoon character in The Beano Comic. As his name suggests he is a big fat boy with an addiction to unhealthy food and in particular confectionary. He is very greedy and would do anything for food, which Minnie often uses to her advantage...
a recurring character from Minnie the Minx. This strip featured Fatty Fudge in food based parodies of popular films such as a parody of The Hound of the Baskervilles
The Hound of the Baskervilles
The Hound of the Baskervilles is the third of four crime novels by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes. Originally serialised in The Strand Magazine from August 1901 to April 1902, it is set largely on Dartmoor in Devon in England's West Country and tells the story of an...
entitled Hound of the Picnic Basket. These strips ended in 1991 and have recently been reprinted in the Beano's Retro Beano section.
Other than these two strips Jim Petrie also drew The Sparky People in the comic of that name, Sneaker
Sneaker (comic)
Sneaker is a character in the United Kingdom comic The Dandy, not unlike Roger the Dodger in his passion for avoiding mundane tasks with the help of various plans and ideas, albeit far more selfishly. Regular targets of his schemes were schoolmate Crawford and his "girlfriend" Tilda with his...
for The Dandy
The Dandy
The Dandy is a long running children's comic published in the United Kingdom by D. C. Thomson & Co. Ltd. The first issue was printed in 1937 and it is the world's third longest running comic, after Detective Comics and Il Giornalino...
, Says Smiffy and What to do with a sleeping dad for The Beano. He also drew Billy Green and his Sister Jean, which appeared in the Dandy annuals of 1993 and 1994. Petrie eventually decided to retire with his final strip (a Minnie the Minx strip) appearing on the 13th January, 2001. The story consisted of Minnie meeting her former artist and bidding farewell. The strip was Petrie's 2000th and last, a tally for one artist drawing the same strip in the Beano only surpassed by David Sutherland on the Bash Street Kids. He is still open to drawing one more strip for The Beano, as Beanotown.com revealed he might just do that, if good pun names come up for a one-off Fatty Fudge later in 2011.
He came out of retirement on the 1st of October 2011, and started working for DC Thomson again.