• St Trinian's School
  ...ame a student at "St Searle's School for Young Ladies".<ref>''[[Excalibur (comics)|Excalibur]]'', #32{{en dash}}34</ref> Towards the end of the arc, Commande [[Category:Gag cartoon comics]]
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• Peter Ling
  ...co-wrote strips for ''Eagle''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s sister title ''[[Girl (UK comics)|Girl]]'', including ''Two Pairs of Skates'' (1956–57) and ''Penny Starr' [[Category:English comics writers]]
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• The Great St Trinian's Train Robbery
  ...series of films based on the ''[[St Trinian's School]]'' set of images and comics, and the only one to be produced in colour. The film stars a selection of a
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• Charles Chilton
  ...series that found its way into the 1950s ''[[w:Eagle (comic)|Eagle]]'' [[w:Comics|comic book]].<ref name=Eagle/> [[Category:British comics writers]]
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• Jimmy Grafton
  ..."King of the Goons Voices Society".{{sfn|Sikov|2002|p=55}}}} With the four comics spending time at the pub, and with Grafton scriptwriting for an increasing
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• Norman Collier
  ...ation on the northern club circuit, and was highly regarded by many fellow comics (notably [[Frank Carson]], [[Les Dawson]], and [[Little and Large]], who we
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• Jim Bowen
  ...hive-date=8 June 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=Old comics never die... |access-date=14 March 2018 |work=The Independent|date=22 Septe
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• Johnny Speight
  He emerged in the mid-1950s. He wrote for radio comics [[Frankie Howerd]], [[Vic Oliver]], [[Arthur Askey]], and [[Cyril Fletcher]
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• Leslie Crowther
  ...made ''The Leslie Crowther Show'', a comedy sketch show, with three older comics, [[Arthur English]], [[Chic Murray]] and [[Albert Modley]] ("Eee it's grand
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• Bob Monkhouse
  ...Wizard]]'' and ''Adventure''.<ref name="Guardian obit" /> He established a comics writing and art partnership with Dulwich schoolmate [[Denis Gifford]] and t * [http://www.chortle.co.uk/comics/b/513/bob_monkhouse Bob Monkhouse on Chortle]
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• Lance Percival
  Working, like many British comics of the era, with [[George Martin]] at [[Parlophone]], Percival had one [[UK
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• Nicholas Parsons
  ...d War Stories: Supernatural and Science Fiction Elements in Novels, Pulps, Comics, Film, Television, Games and Other Media|first=Paul|last=Green|page=56|publ
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• Ken Dodd
  ...ed in [[showbusiness|show business]] after seeing an advert in a [[British comics|comic]]: "Fool your teachers, amaze your friends—send [[Sixpence (British ...ite = chortle.co.uk | publisher = Chortle | url = http://www.chortle.co.uk/comics/k/227/ken_dodd | access-date = 9 January 2017}}</ref> Part of his stage act
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• Charlie Williams (comedian)
  ...kinteeth, a new play by Dotun Adebayo, confronts the politically incorrect comics that blighted British television comedy in the 1970s | date=14 February 201
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• The Magic Christian (film)
  ...azine |last=Thill |first=Scott |title=Grant Morrison's Batman, Inc. Births Comics' First Zen Billionaire |url=https://www.wired.com/underwire/2010/11/grant-m
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• Joyce Grenfell
  ...], [[Tommy Cooper]], [[Les Dawson]] and [[Peter Cook]].<ref>"New issue for comics with the stamp of greatness", ''The Times'', 2 March 1998, p. 5</ref>|group
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• Robbie Coltrane
  |''[[The Bogie Man (comics)|The Bogie Man]]''
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• Boulting brothers
  ...|date=9 October 1949 |access-date=13 September 2017 |page=2 (Sunday Times Comics) |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> It led to a less popular sequel
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• Bobby Ball
  ...erpool.com/heres-how-bobby-ball-made-his-name-as-one-of-the-uks-best-loved-comics/ |publisher=The Guide Liverpool |access-date=30 October 2020}}</ref><ref>{{
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• Jimmy Perry
  ...eit and ego. But it was nearly there. It was originally called ''Dirty Old Comics.'' If I could have cut about half an hour off it and re-cast some of it, th
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