Hugh McClelland was a cartoonist who headed the cartoon department of the '' Daily Mirror'' in the UK. In 1937, he introduced his wild Western comic strip '' Beelzebub Jones'' in the pages of the ''Daily Mirror''. After taking over as cartoon chief at the ''Mirror'' in 1945, he dropped ''Beelzebub Jones'' and moved on to a variety of new strips, including ''Dan Doofer'', ''Sunshine Falls'' and ''Jimpy''.

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In 1952, he exited the ''Mirror'' for the tabloid ''

Daily Sketch The ''Daily Sketch'' was a British national tabloid newspaper, founded in Manchester in 1909 by Sir Edward Hulton. It was bought in 1920 by Lord Rothermere's Daily Mirror Newspapers, but in 1925 Rothermere sold it to William and Gomer Berry ...

''. He drew ''Pip Squeak and Wilfred'' until 1956 when he left Selsey and emigrated with his family to Canada. He launched his last strip, ''Jimmy Gimmicks'', in 1957, but it lasted only two months. McClelland had a working method that expedited his production. He would pencil 20 weeks of strips at one session, writing dialogue as he progressed and then ink these in outline. Lastly, he would go back and fill in the blacks. Horn, Maurice
''The World Encyclopedia of Comics''. Chelsea House, 1983.
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