Concept
Smudge was a little boy who described himself as "the scruffiest boy in town and proud of it", relishing any opportunity to get filthy. His main rival was the snooty Percival Primm. Other characters in the strip included Smudge's Mum and over the years he had two different pets firstly a mouse and an animal of a never revealed although bipedal species (this is something of a running joke in Smudge stripsthe Beano Book 1987) completely covered in mud and called Spludge. There was also another character, a girl, of the same name in the 1940s Dandy. The two characters appeared alongside each other for comparison in the Side By Side 60 Years book.References
Beano strips 1980 comics debuts Comics characters introduced in 1984 1999 comics endings Child characters in comics Gag-a-day comics British comics characters Defunct British comics {{comic-strip-stub