Comics - The Dandy - Corporal Clott - Bully Beef and Chips - Jimmy Hughes - Original artwork & typescripts, including
£1,400
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photography
Auction: 13 January 2016 at 11:00 GMT
Description
2 Typescripts for Corporal Clott, in total 8pp, J.C. Hughes, biro additions, original ink illustration, [1974]; Bully Beef, 4 complete, and 2 incomplete, typescripts, in total 10pp., with corrections/additions, two with original ink illustrations; 7 typescript letters initialled from the editor of The Dandy to Jimmy Hughes (J.C. Hughes) discussing Corporal Clott and Bully Beef illustrations "The pencil sketches are as good as ever... I have another Corporal Clott script to send... thank you for keeping going full steam", 7 pages, 1971-74; 8 pieces of artwork for Bully Beef, c20 x 42cm. - 50 x 38cm.; 14 pieces of original artwork for Corporal Clott, (10 being strips, 4 being single images), c.21 x 21 - 50 x 70m., some with text strips stuck on (some missing, two with panel excised, two loose), including preliminary sketches for strips in 1975 (none dated); 3 pieces of artwork for another Strip, c. 43 x 50cm.; Plus. Original typescript and original artwork for Corporal Clott, with copy of The Dandy and letter to Jimmy Hughes, 11 Jan. 1974, framed; Original artwork for part of Bully Beef and Chips & copy of The Dandy, for 2 March 1985, framed; Original typescript and artwork for Bully Beef, undated, framed; Original watercolour of Bully Beef inscribed "To Hollie with Best wishes", 40 x 50cm., framed; Original artwork for Ted-Times Tales, 53 x 38cm., stamped 1987 on verso; and a large quantity of The Dandy, c. 1977-1988 (quantity)
Footnote
Note: Bully Beef and Chips was a British comic strip created by Jimmy Hughes which first appeared in 1967 in The Dandy. Corporal Clott first appeared in The Dandy in 1960 (issue 990) and was drawn from c. 1970 for several years by Jimmy Hughes.
James Corbett Hughes born in Glasgow March 1925 - died October 2002 ,a Gentleman and a Gentle man, was the originator of Bully Beef and Chips, also The Jocks and the Geordies. He also was the illustrator for Korky the Cat, Dennis the Menace, Desperate Dan and numerous other characters we love and grew up with.