Emilios Hatjoullis (born 7 September 1939) is a British cartoonist and graphic designer. During the 1960s he was a designer at the

Blackpool Pleasure Beach Blackpool Pleasure Beach is an amusement park situated on Blackpool's South Shore, in the county of Lancashire, North West England. It operates as a secure facility, and has introduced epayments via smartphones for admission charges, replac ...

and at the

Blackpool Illuminations Blackpool Illuminations is an annual Illuminations (festival), lights festival, founded in 1879 and first switched on 18 September that year, held each autumn in the British seaside resort of Blackpool on the The Fylde, Fylde Coast in Lancashire ...

. His works include the tableaux displays of nursery rhymes such as 'Hickory Dickory Dock' and 'Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary', which are still exhibited during the light festival in the autumn. At the

Emilios Hatjoullis helped with the design the psychedelic Candy House and the redesign of the Noah's Ark from its dated 1920s style. At the end of the 1960s Emilios Hatjoullis went to become creative director at Brunning's advertising agency in

Liverpool Liverpool is a city and metropolitan borough in Merseyside, England. With a population of in 2019, it is the 10th largest English district by population and its metropolitan area is the fifth largest in the United Kingdom, with a populat ...

. For the local Higsons brewery he created a series of characters called the 'Old Higsonians' named after Liverpool landmarks such as

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, and Ann Field. However, in 1985 the Higson's brewery was bought out by Boddingtons of

Manchester Manchester () is a city in Greater Manchester, England. It had a population of 552,000 in 2021. It is bordered by the Cheshire Plain to the south, the Pennines to the north and east, and the neighbouring city of Salford to the west. The t ...

and the ad campaign was stopped, leaving a limited number of collectible breweriana merchandise. Emilios Hatjoullis now works for

the Beano ''The Beano'' (formerly ''The Beano Comic'', also known as ''Beano'') is a British anthology comic magazine created by Scottish publishing company DC Thomson. Its first issue was published on 30 July 1938, and it became the world's longest-run ...

comic illustrating the infantile thief Baby Face Finlayson and is pursuing his love of painting and fine art. His style was used for a few Dennis The Menace strips in 2002, but it's not known if it actually was him. He drew

Baby Face Finlayson Baby Face Finlayson is a fictional character in a comic strip in the UK comic ''The Beano'', first appearing in issue 1553, dated 22 April 1972. Baby Face Finlayson "The Cutest Bandit in the West" is an outlaw from the American Old West, an ...

between 2004 and 2007 for the comic, and had drawn

Merboy Mermen, the male counterparts of the mythical female mermaids, are legendary creatures, which are male human from the waist up and fish-like from the waist down, but may assume normal human shape. Sometimes they are described as hideous and othe ...

a few times too.

External links

* Examples of some of the Old Higsonian characters
Old Higsonians
* History and images of the Blackpool Illuminations

* Visit Baby Face and other Beano characters
Beano Town

References

1939 births Living people Artists from Blackpool English cartoonists {{UK-comics-creator-stub