Shrimpsvoices

Hello everyone. I used to be a professional comic script writer: those of you who can remember `Buster' and `Whizzer and Chips' will have seen some of my work, such as `Watford Gapp'; `Tarman of the Jungle'; `The Bumpkin Billionaires' etc etc etc.

"Watford Gapp - King of the Rap" wasn't my idea: the artist, Tom Paterson, came up with the first two stories - I wrote about 150 subsequent scripts. What was really unusual about the strip was that it was always in verse. The kids loved it - it is still being reprinted in Fleetway Comic compilations even now, nearly twenty years later. I still think there is a future for these sorts of comic strips. I've thus written a verse about Christie the Cat with the idea of initially approaching the Club and - given their blessing - Puma with the intention of writing verses for the mascots of all the other teams in Britain that Puma produces strips for. There is a commercial reason for this as well as wanting to entertain supporters all over the UK...

I thus need a cartoonist prepared and able to produce the artwork. If you are interested - or know anyone who might be - please get in touch so I can send you a copy of the first script.

Thanks in anticipation,

Roger Fitton.

Whizzer & Chips! Wow! That brings back memories!

Used to buy that from the newsagents on the corner of Yorkshire St and Devonshire Rd. My auntie got me into comics by handing down her old Cor! comics and Annuals.

Still got the Annuals somewhere in the loft.

thedoc wrote:Hello everyone. I used to be a professional comic script writer: those of you who can remember `Buster' and `Whizzer and Chips' will have seen some of my work, such as `Watford Gapp'; `Tarman of the Jungle'; `The Bumpkin Billionaires' etc etc etc.

"Watford Gapp - King of the Rap" wasn't my idea: the artist, Tom Paterson, came up with the first two stories - I wrote about 150 subsequent scripts. What was really unusual about the strip was that it was always in verse. The kids loved it - it is still being reprinted in Fleetway Comic compilations even now, nearly twenty years later. I still think there is a future for these sorts of comic strips. I've thus written a verse about Christie the Cat with the idea of initially approaching the Club and - given their blessing - Puma with the intention of writing verses for the mascots of all the other teams in Britain that Puma produces strips for. There is a commercial reason for this as well as wanting to entertain supporters all over the UK...

I thus need a cartoonist prepared and able to produce the artwork. If you are interested - or know anyone who might be - please get in touch so I can send you a copy of the first script.

Thanks in anticipation,

Roger Fitton.

Not related to Keith by any chance?

http://www.bustercomic.co.uk/whizzer.html

Mark S wrote:Whizzer & Chips! Wow! That brings back memories!

Used to buy that from the newsagents on the corner of Yorkshire St and Devonshire Rd. My auntie got me into comics by handing down her old Cor! comics and Annuals.

Still got the Annuals somewhere in the loft.

That post took me back too, being told to go for a haircut at eddie balls and hoping there
was a few in the queue so i could read some comics from the pile.
A Christie the Cat cartoon would be a great idea, hope it comes off and the club could make
a few quid from it.