Skookum Skool was a comic strip originally featured in Buzz. The strip first appeared in the first issue of Buzz and was featured in every issue of the comic. The strip was drawn by Ken H. Harrison

Ken H. Harrison

Ken H. Harrison is an artist at DC Thomson, who drew Robbie Rebel, Big Brad Wolf and Lord Snooty for The Beano, The Hoot Squad for Hoot , The Broons and Oor Wullie for the Sunday Post, Skookum Skool, Spookum Skool and The Snookums for Buzz and Cracker comics.He drew Desperate Dan for The Dandy...

 featured a class of six (later five) mischievous pupils similar in theme to 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 strip The Bash Street Kids

The Bash Street Kids

The Bash Street Kids is an ongoing comic strip featuring in the British comic The Beano. The strip was created by Leo Baxendale under the title When the Bell Rings, and first appeared in The Beano in issue 604, dated 13 February 1954. It became The Bash Street Kids in 1956 and since then, it has...

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After Buzz merged with The Topper the strip reappeared in a new comic called Cracker under the new title of The Head Hunters of Skookum Skool. This newly titled strip was different to Skookum Skool because it now featured the Janitor advertising the post of Skookum Skool Headteacher (referred to as Head in the strip) and each week a new applicant would be appointed. The applicants came from differing backgrounds and from all over the world. All new headmasters, bar one, would have relinquished the post by the end of the strip.

The strip was originally part of the Skooldaze feature which occupied the four centre pages in the first twenty four issues of Cracker alongside two spinoffs of Skookum Skool. This feature eventually disappeared from the comic and Skookum Skool was eventually dropped as well finally appearing in issue 55 of Cracker.

Spinoffs

• Spookum Skool - This was similar to the original Skookum Skool strip except the pupils were all ghosts. This strip started in Buzz and went on to appear in Cracker until the end of the Skooldaze feature. This strip was also drawn by Ken Harrison.

• The Snookums - A spinoff which only featured in Cracker until the end of the Skooldaze feature. This strip involved a class full of a large number of namelesss and unruly infants. The strip featured two panels setting up for the last panel which was much larger than the other two and featured a final chaotic scene. This strip was also drawn by Ken Harrison.

Characters in the strip and its spin-offs

• Boss - The glasses wearing leader of the class
• Pudding - The fat kid similar to Fatty in The Bash Street Kids
• Streaky - a tall and skinny pupil
• Dizzy - An idiot who wore a Dunce's cap similar to Smiffy from the Bash Street Kids
• Susie - The only girl
• There was also another pupil but he disappeared after issue 22 of Buzz
• Teacher - a mortar board wearing teacher who disappeared when the strip became the Headhunters of Skookum Skool.
• Miss Bun - the teacher in The Snookums