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Pandemonium movie. man with hat4/4/2023 Other early adventure strips include The Great Flood of London, in which a passing comet heats up the Arctic ice-cap, causing it to flood much of Europe The Cannonball Crackshots, a Napoleonic-era story of a team who manned a six-pound cannon and Lester’s Little Circus, a travelling circus in the wild west. Danny’s family, with the aid of a pack of friendly dolphins, help disrupt the efforts of the invaders and, in a later series, defeat pirates who are using a submarine to attack ships. His first published strip, Danny on a Dolphin, told the story of young Danny Weston and his family, whose idyllic life on a tropical island is destroyed in 1942 when Japanese soldiers sweep across the Pacific. Growing up, Sutherland was a fan of Paddy Brennan, Beano’s popular adventure artist, and it was his style that Sutherland adopted for his earliest work. When the managing editor, RD Low, heard of this, Low invited him to relocate to Dundee, which he did in 1960, with DC Thomson assisting with his house purchase. With these earnings on top of his regular wage, Sutherland felt confident that he could put down the deposit on a house. In 1958 he married Margaret Robertson, and to make extra money to start buying a home, painted scenes for restaurants and chip shops around Glasgow.Įntering a competition in the Sunday Post, Sutherland won £10 and the attention of the comics editors at DC Thomson, who began offering him freelance work. Photograph: DC Thomson & CoĪfter two years’ national service in Egypt, Sutherland freelanced briefly before joining another studio that produced labels for whiskey bottles and fruit jars. One day, he doodled a Disneyesque dog on the wall that was spotted by the cinema’s manager, who adopted it as a mascot – Davy’s Dug – to introduce coming attractions.Ī 1960 adventure strip, The Great Flood of London, by David Sutherland, in which a passing comet heats up the Arctic ice-cap, causing it to flood much of Europe. The studio had an exclusive contract to work on Disney movies, for which Sutherland was a natural. He attended evening classes at Glasgow School of Art, studying commercial art and life drawing three times a week.īy the age of 17, Sutherland was drawing promotional material for cinemas, redesigning a foyer or cinema front with images of Marilyn Monroe or Jane Russell one week and a 16-ft high battle scene from a war movie the next. He was encouraged by an art teacher at school and, when he left at the age of 15, David applied to the advertising agency Rex Studios, where he filled in lettering, mixed paints and swept the floor. His father was a joiner who was later called up to serve in the war, during which David entertained himself drawing aeroplanes. To Sutherland also goes the credit for creating the Bash Street Pups (1966, later spun off to their own strip, Pup Parade), Cuthbert Cringeworthy (1972) and Olive the School Cook (1981).īorn in Invergordon, Scotland, the youngest of three, David was only two when his mother died and the family moved first to Stirling and then to Kirkintilloch, near Glasgow, so their aunts could help raise the children. The Bash Street Kids also hit the headlines in 1994 when the publishers threatened to replace them, but backed down due to the public outcry. Dennis took pride of place on the cover of Beano in 1974 and made national news when Gnasher went missing in 1986. When ill-health forced Davey Law to stop drawing Dennis the Menace in 1972, Sutherland added a third major strip to his weekly output, adopting different styles for each of them. Photograph: DC Thomson & Co/PAĪ versatile artist, when Dudley D Watkins suffered a heart attack in 1969, it was to Sutherland that Crammond turned to complete Watkins’ partially pencilled final page of Biffo the Bear artwork, and the artist continued to draw Biffo for the next few years. Although he officially retired in 1998, David Sutherland continued to draw the Bash Street Kids strip for the Beano, his final one published last month.
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