strips in UK comics based TV shows

Like this sort of thing

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-RQQifjRr-ys/TVrZ_VHhf4I/AAAAAAAAAaw/nOrosc5UxFw/s1600/Whacko.jpg

linking because the picture is large

I think there were lots of these?

was there ever an 'Are You Being Served' strip?

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0GoPwHoVcZQ/T6O5JVwUN_I/AAAAAAAAKwI/qk9bnw9aiI4/s1600/SH100484.JPG

TV & Brit comics go back together at least as far as TV Fun in 1953 (itself a spin off from Film Fun comic, which included unlicensed 'Laurel and Hardy' and 'Charlie Chaplin' comic strips). in the 60s there are obv glories like Frank Bellamy doing Thunderbirds for TV21 comic. Popular TV series like Dr Who wld get British hardback Annual every year, and they generally included some comic material, often of a v. low quality.

The ur-source for things like the On the Buses strip wld of course be Look-In comic, which was 'The Junior TV Times' and featured lots of comic versions of ITV-produced/imported tv series. John Bolton doing the Bionic Woman is esp. favoured by comic fans.

I like the strips from the 80s Buster 'unofficially' based on characters from TV shows, like this Arthur Daley character

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Ctbkxct-Z6k/UeiPsET2BlI/AAAAAAAAMo4/vlcCsCaVDiI/s1600/young%2Barfur.jpg

I hadn't realised before that it was drawn by the guy who used to do 'The Directors' in Private Eye

I'm pretty sure there was an Only Fools and Horses homage/rip off as well, that borrowed plots wholesale from the TV show?

Also this, which was interesting because the setting was an odd mixture of the USA (with the strip being based on 'Dallas' obv) and trad UK comics world of lord mayors and village fetes etc

http://comicsuk.co.uk/images/Specials/WhizzerandChips/WhizzerandChipsSpecial_1986(JR).jpeg

I was reading reprints of these when I was kid in the 90s and was not familiar with Dallas or Minder, I don't think I realised at the time that they were based on tv shows

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Jm70Jx1fU-Y/SrKBrr648WI/AAAAAAAAAb0/Y5rZxXu1L2c/s320/JRfit.jpg

like in the early 90s he was living in a terraced house and wearing a shell suit

http://www.oocities.org/pjgtrevormetcalfe/JRwonartist.jpg

There was also a legitimate Dallas comic strip in some US newspapers, but I don't know if it made it to the UK.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Look-in

I love these summaries of Young Arfur strips

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

ha

The character is loosely based on the character of the same name from the television soap opera Dallas. His sister in the comic strip was called Sue Helen who, in contrast to her brother, was a decent, charming and helpful person.

A similar strip, also loosely based on J. R. Ewing from Dallas, called Jay R Hood appeared in rival publisher DC Thomson's Nutty coincidentally this strip also featured a character called Sue Helen who acted as Jay R's most common victim.

not based on a tv show, but someone should bring back 'Good Guy', a strip about a preternaturally well-behaved schoolboy who had members of an organisation called Temptation Limited follow him around trying incite him into committing sins

http://www.toonhound.com/goodguy.htm

(I think this was my favourite strip in the comic when I was a kid, not sure what a psychiatrist would make of that)

Look-in was the shiz back in the 70s

Popular TV series like Dr Who wld get British hardback Annual every year, and they generally included some comic material, often of a v. low quality.

Dr Who also had a regular strip running in TV Comic (and later Countdown / TV Action) from about 1964; the Daleks had a separate series in TV Century 21, before moving to TV Comic; and the strip in Doctor Who Magazine has been running uninterrupted since 1979

NB the Dalek annuals (and strips) were usually written by David Whitaker, and so probably of a vastly higher quality than the 1960s DW comics

- Didn't know that David Whitaker wrote some of the comics - his nephews, Steve (RIP) and Richard, have both had careers in comics, and Richard may even have drawn the odd Dr Who strip (I know he was working for British Marvel for a while.)

- The funny thing about the Buster comic/character was that he was meant to be Andy Capp's son, minus the domestic violence and chronic alcoholism

odd mixture of the USA (with the strip being based on 'Dallas' obv) and trad UK comics world of lord mayors and village fetes etc

This is quite a recurring feature of British comics - Desperate Dan is set in the Wild West by way of Dundee

I kinda thought JR's deal was that he was a british kid who thought he was from texas

Finding old, 70s Look-ins at bring & buys when I was small (early 80s) felt like looking into a strange senseless world even then. Strips of TV shows I'd never seen (Please, Sir!), or things like this:
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_448y6kVhntg/SLB8a-p7GqI/AAAAAAAACdc/s-Ab-MvZ-a4/s1600-h/crowther.jpg

mega- 8O at David / Steve Whitaker connection