Jim Petrie (2 June 1932 – 25 August 2014) was a
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comic artist born in Kirriemuir, Scotland. He is most notable for drawing 2,000 episodes of
Minnie the Minx
Minnie the Minx, whose real name is
Hermione Makepeace is a comic strip character published in the British comic magazine ''The Beano''. Created and originally drawn by Leo Baxendale, she first appeared in issue 596, dated 19 December 1953, ma ...
,
a comic strip featured in
The Beano
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, after taking over from the strips original artist
Leo Baxendale
Joseph Leo Baxendale (27 October 1930 – 23 April 2017) was an English cartoonist and publisher. Baxendale wrote and drew several titles. Among his best-known creations are the ''The Beano, Beano'' comic strip, strips ''Little Plum'', ''Minnie ...
in 1961. Jim Petrie's first Minnie the Minx strip appeared in The Beano dated 6 June 1961 and featured Minnie destroying her mother's
feather duster
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to make a
red indian headdress and taking her friends captive. This strip ended with Minnie being caught by her father and subsequently slippered by him,
[ a common end for a comic strip from this era.
As well as drawing Minnie the Minx, he drew a Minnie the Minx spinoff featuring ]Fatty Fudge
Frederick James "Fatty" Fudge is a fictional character who appears in the British comics magazine ''The Beano''. He is the best friend of Minnie the Minx, and would eventually star in his own eponymous comic strip in 1989.
Character background
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a recurring character from Minnie the Minx. This strip featured Fatty Fudge in food based parodies of popular films such as a parody of The Hound of the Baskervilles
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entitled Hound of the Picnic Basket. These strips ended in 1991 and have recently been reprinted in the Beano's Retro Beano section.
Other than these two strips Jim Petrie also drew The Sparky People in the comic of that name, Sneaker for The Dandy
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, Says Smiffy
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and What to do with a sleeping dad for The Beano.[ The story consisted of Minnie meeting her former artist and bidding farewell. The strip was Petrie's 2000th and last, a tally for one artist drawing the same strip in the Beano only surpassed by David Sutherland on the Bash Street Kids.
In August 2011, DC Thomson asked him to come out of retirement to do a last strip, for the chance to see a "legend"'s strip again. They asked the Beano readers to send in their ideas for the strip. In the end it was "The Tummy Returns" featuring Fatty Fudge, suggested by William Clyde that got the one-off strip place.
Petrie died on 25 August 2014.]
References
Scottish comics artists
1932 births
2014 deaths
British comics artists
Place of birth missing
The Dandy people
The Beano people
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