Look at the pic above - my part of it was drawn about 25 years ago when I worked as a resize artist on the BUSTER and WHIZZER & CHIPS comic libraries. What that entailed was turning one standard-sized page of art into two "commando" sized pages. I won't bore you with the reasons why here. Anyone interested can skip over the the excellent BUSTER site at http://www.bustercomic.co.uk/ and read a fuller account on the interviews page. However, part of the process sometimes involved extending the odd panel or two. I could have merely extended the horizon lines to fill out the pic, but I thought I'd give the editor value for money, hence the addition of MR. TOAD and my own character, PERCY PROON, on the left-hand side of the picture.
I was always quite proud of the effort I put into the comic libraries, and I remember working on this panel as if it were yestyerday. So, just thought I'd post it here. Bear in mind that a comic libraries page (before printing) was only about twice the size of the published item, so I had to draw pretty small.
Here's another one from a CHAMP strip...
Here's another one from a CHAMP strip...
...and one from SHINER...
...and one from TOMBOY.
Yup, ol' Percy sure got around in those days.
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