Sneaker is a character in the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

 comic

Comics

Comics denotes a hybrid medium having verbal side of its vocabulary tightly tied to its visual side in order to convey narrative or information only, the latter in case of non-fiction comics, seeking synergy by using both visual and verbal side in...

 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...

, not unlike Roger the Dodger

Roger the Dodger

This is the article for The Beano comic strip, for other uses please see Roger the Dodger Roger the Dodger is a fictional character featured regularly in the UK comic The Beano...

 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 sneakiness. His trademark laugh is referred to as "snik-snik" in the earlier strips. It was created and drawn by Jim Petrie

Jim Petrie

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...

 in the 1980s, and disappeared from the comic at the end of the decade. It was bought back a few years later by Nick Brennan

Nick Brennan

Nick Brennan is a British cartoonist who works mainly for D. C. Thomson & Co. Ltd. He started drawing for the company in 1993, drawing a revival of Peter Piper From The Dandy, revived from The Magic Comic, but looking nothing like Watkins' creation, instead sporting an elvis-like hairdo and purple...

, who also created Blinky

Blinky (comic strip character)

Blinky was a fictional character in a comic strip in the UK comic The Dandy, about a boy with large, thick glasses and the chaos he always causes, as what he sees through his glasses is a galaxy different from the rest of the world...

 and Pinky's Crackpot Circus

Pinky's Crackpot Circus

Colonel Crackpot's Circus was a strip in The Beano it started in 1960 ended in 1963 and was the first Beano comic strip drawn by Malcolm Judge, who later went on to draw Billy Whizz and Ball Boy for the same comic, as well as The Numskulls for The Beezer....

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