Pansy Potter
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Pansy Potter The Strongman's Daughter was a comic strip
in The Beano
, featuring Pansy Potter, a really strong girl. First appearing in the issue dated 17 December 1938. Around 1949 Jimmy Clark took up drawing the Strip, and it became known as Pansy Potter in Wonderland. As the name suggested, Pansy Potter no longer lived in what we can safely call Beanotown, but instead was living in this fantasy world called Wonderland
which was also home to Humpty Dumpty
and other nursery rhyme
Characters. The character was later revived and reappeared in the first issue of Sparky
, dated 23 January 1965. The strip was originally drawn in the Beano by Hugh McNeill, but John Geering
and Evi De Bono drew the Sparky revival. During the war years, a number of different artists with their own distinct styles drew the strip. The strip also returned to The Beano in the early 1990s (1989-1993), drawn by Barry Glennard
. The title is a rhyming couplet when read in the Scottish accent of the Beano's Dundee home town.
Comic strip
A comic strip is a sequence of drawings arranged in interrelated panels to display brief humor or form a narrative, often serialized, with text in balloons and captions....
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...
, featuring Pansy Potter, a really strong girl. First appearing in the issue dated 17 December 1938. Around 1949 Jimmy Clark took up drawing the Strip, and it became known as Pansy Potter in Wonderland. As the name suggested, Pansy Potter no longer lived in what we can safely call Beanotown, but instead was living in this fantasy world called Wonderland
Wonderland
-Literature:*Wonderland , the setting of Lewis Carroll's book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland*Wonderland , a 1971 novel by Joyce Carol Oates...
which was also home to Humpty Dumpty
Humpty Dumpty
Humpty Dumpty is a character in an English language nursery rhyme, probably originally a riddle and one of the best known in the English-speaking world. He is typically portrayed as an egg and has appeared or been referred to in a large number of works of literature and popular culture...
and other nursery rhyme
Nursery rhyme
The term nursery rhyme is used for "traditional" poems for young children in Britain and many other countries, but usage only dates from the 19th century and in North America the older ‘Mother Goose Rhymes’ is still often used.-Lullabies:...
Characters. The character was later revived and reappeared in the first issue of Sparky
Sparky
Sparky is a common nickname for people and animals.It may also refer to:People nicknamed Sparky:*Sparky Adams , American Major League Baseball player...
, dated 23 January 1965. The strip was originally drawn in the Beano by Hugh McNeill, but John Geering
John Geering
John Keith Geering was a British cartoonist with a distinctive, occasionally flamboyant style, most famous for his work for DC Thomson comics including Sparky, The Topper, Cracker, Plug, Nutty, The Beano and The Dandy....
and Evi De Bono drew the Sparky revival. During the war years, a number of different artists with their own distinct styles drew the strip. The strip also returned to The Beano in the early 1990s (1989-1993), drawn by Barry Glennard
Barry Glennard
Barry Glennard is a British comics artist who works mainly for Scottish publisher D. C. Thomson & Co.. He has drawn a number of strips for The Beano over the years including Pansy Potter, The Beano Birds, Gnasher and Gnipper and The Numskulls. Only one of these four currently remains in The Beano...
. The title is a rhyming couplet when read in the Scottish accent of the Beano's Dundee home town.